Lei and Guangliang have successfully defended their PhD thesis! Congratulations, Drs. Xu and Yang!
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LipFuzzer (from our NDSS’19 paper) code released!
LipFuzzer is a new linguistic knowledge assisted fuzzing approach to assess the security of emerging vApps (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant). The source code is now available. Please check out the project page here.
See our NDSS’20 paper for more details: Yangyong Zhang, Lei Xu, Abner Mendoza, Guangliang Yang, Phakpoom Chinprutthiwong, Guofei Gu. “Life after Speech Recognition: Fuzzing Semantic Misinterpretation for Voice Assistant Applications.” In Proc. of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’19), San Diego, California, Feb. 2019. [pdf] [bib]
Dr. Gu co-chaired NSF SPS Visioning Workshop
Dr. Gu received two awards from the college
Dr. Gu was honored to receive 2017-2018 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award and Research Impact Award from the college of engineering.
Haopei successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Haopei has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards Robust, Accountable and Multitenancy-friendly Control Plane in Software-Defined Networks”. Congratulations, Haopei!
S2OS project website launched!
Our S2OS position paper will appear in APSys’17. S2OS is a new large multi-institute project funded by NSF/VMware, in which we aim to build a new Security OS with Software Defined Intrastructure. Please check S2OS project website for more details.
FRESCO source code released!
Our FRESCO is upgraded to the Floodlight plaform. The FRESCO source code and module/app store are now released! Please check our project website here for details.
Dr. Gu received a 2016-2017 Faculty Fellow Award
Dr. Gu received a 2016-2017 Faculty Fellow Award (Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ’45 Fellow) from the College of Engineering.
Each year, M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering at Texas A&M University, recognizes faculty members who have received fellowships for their impact on their department and the college as a whole. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering had six faculty members receive a total of seven awards.
The award recipients will be formally recognized at an awards ceremony this spring.
Our PBS paper in the finalist (TOP 10) of 2016 CSAW Best Applied Security Paper Award
Our PBS paper was selected into the finalist (top 10) of 2016 CSAW Best Applied Security Paper Award.
Congratulations to Kevin!
In this paper, we present PBS (Programmable BYOD Security), a new security solution to enable fine-grained, application-level network security programmability for the purpose of network management and policy enforcement on mobile apps and devices. Our work is motivated by another emerging and powerful concept, SDN (Software-Defined Networking). With a novel abstraction of mobile device elements (e.g., apps and network interfaces on the device) into conventional SDN network elements, PBS intends to provide network-wide, context-aware, app-specific policy enforcement at run-time without introducing much overhead on a resource-constrained mobile device, and without the actual deployment of SDN switches in enterprise networks.