Faculty
Research Areas
My primary research interests are in the areas of Systems Security, with a focus on Hardware-assisted Security, Trusted Execution Environment, Arm/x86/RISC-V Architecture Security , Confidential Computing, Debugging Transparency.
Educational Background
August 2010 - May 2015, Ph.D. in CS, George Mason University, USA
August 2008 - May 2010, M.S. in CS, Columbia University, USA
September 2004 - July 2008, 2+2 Dual Bachelor, B.S. in CS, North China University of Technology, China
August 2006 - May 2008, 2+2 Dual Bachelor, B.S. in CS, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
Professional Experience
September 2019 - Present, Associate Professor, Southern Univeristy of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
August 2015 - July 2019, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Honors & Awards
Runner-up Best Paper Award in IEEE/IFIP DSN 2020
NSF SaTC Award 2019, Lead PI (share: ~50%)
NSF CICI Award 2017, Co-PI (share:~25%)
NSF S&AS Award 2017, Co-PI (share:~20%)
Distinguished Paper Award, ACSAC 2017
Five Selected Recent Publications
Authors with an underline “_” is student/scholar mentored by me in my lab; * indicates the corresponding author.
SCRUTINIZER: Towards Secure Forensics on Compromised TrustZone
Yiming Zhang, Fengwei Zhang*, Xiapu Luo*, Rui Hou, Xuhua Ding, Zhenkai Liang, Shoumeng Yan, Tao Wei, and Zhengyu He
To Appear In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'25), San Diego, CA, February 2025.MOAT: Towards Safe BPF Kernel Extension
Hongyi Lu, Shuai Wang*, Yechang Wu, Wanning He, and Fengwei Zhang*
In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'24), Philadelphia, PA, August 2024.CAGE: Complementing Arm CCA with GPU Extensions
Chenxu Wang, Fengwei Zhang*, Yunjie Deng, Kevin Leach, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Ning, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'24), San Diego, CA, February 2024.Shelter: Extending Arm CCA with Isolation in User Space
Yiming Zhang?, Yuxin Hu?, Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang*, Xiapu Luo, Haoyang Huang, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'23), Anaheim, CA, August 2023.StrongBox: A GPU TEE on Arm Endpoints [slides]
Yunjie Deng?, Chenxu Wang?, Shunchang Yu, Shiqing Liu, Zhenyu Ning, Kevin Leach, Jin Li, Shoumeng Yan, Zhengyu He, Jiannong Cao, and Fengwei Zhang*
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22), Los Angeles, CA, November 2022.
Patents
隨機(jī)數(shù)生成方法,、系統(tǒng),、設(shè)備及存儲介質(zhì),,發(fā)明人:張鋒巍,寧振宇,廖京輝,汪湛博,,專利號ZL202211314715.5,,授權(quán)公告日: 2023/3/14
數(shù)據(jù)記錄方法和數(shù)據(jù)記錄裝置,,發(fā)明人:張鋒巍,寧振宇,張一鳴,,專利號ZL202210881085.3,,授權(quán)公告日: 2022/12/27
內(nèi)核空間調(diào)試方法及其裝置,、計(jì)算機(jī)設(shè)備,、存儲介質(zhì),發(fā)明人:盧弘毅,何宛凝,鄭鑫穎,張鋒巍,,專利號ZL202210436969.8,,授權(quán)公告日: 2022-07-26
內(nèi)核修復(fù)方法、裝置,、電子設(shè)備及存儲介質(zhì),,發(fā)明人:張鋒巍,周雷,專利號ZL202010824141.0,,授權(quán)公告日: 2022-06-21
基于ARM架構(gòu)的GPU可信執(zhí)行方法,、系統(tǒng)、設(shè)備及存儲介質(zhì),,發(fā)明人:張鋒巍,寧振宇,鄧韻杰,王晨旭,劉世晴,于順昌,,專利號ZL202111150136.7,授權(quán)公告日: 2022-06-21
可信執(zhí)行環(huán)境構(gòu)建方法,、系統(tǒng)及存儲介質(zhì),,發(fā)明人:寧振宇,張鋒巍,專利號ZL202011313471.X,,授權(quán)公告日: 2022-05-31
Methods and Systems for Increased Debugging Transparency, Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou, and Haining Wang, U.S. Patent Number 10,127,137. Issued on November 13, 2018.
Other Information
Program Organization
[CCS]: Proceedings Co-Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022.
[ML4CS]: General Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, 2020.
[EuroSec]: Publicity Chair, European Workshop on Systems Security, 2018, 2019.
[IWCSS]: Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Cyberspace Security, 2019.
[CCSW]: Publicity Chair, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2017.
Program Committee Membership
[S&P]: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
[USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
[CCS]: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023.
[NDSS]: ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2023, 2024.
[DAC]: IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 2022, 2023.
[ACSAC]: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
[DSN]: IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2020, 2021, 2023.
[ESORICS]: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2020, 2021, 2023.
[AsiaCCS]: ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021, 2022.
[WiSec]: ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2019, 2020, 2022.
[SecureComm]: EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2023.
[VehicleSec]: Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy, 2023.
[EthiCS]: International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security, 2023.
[ARES]: International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2020.
[HPBD&IS]: International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems, 2020.
[EuroSec]: European Workshop on Systems Security, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
[AutoSec]: International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security, 2021, 2022.
[MASS]: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, 2018, 2019.
[SecureComm]: EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2018.
[ICICS]: International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2018, 2021.
[IoTSSP]: ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Mobile IoT Sensing, Security, and Privacy, 2018.
[ICC]: IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2018.
[CCSW]: ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2017.
[HASP]: Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, 2017.
[ICPADS]: IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2016.
Artifact Evaluation Committee
[USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2020.
[ACSAC]: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2019, 2020.
[WOOT]: USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2019.