The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Xiangyu Zhang

 Xiangyu  Zhang

Title

Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science 

Department

Office

LWSN 3154K 

Office Phone

49-69415 

Education

PhD, Computer Science, 2006
University of Arizona

MS, Computer Science, 2000
University of Sci. & Tech. of China

BS, Computer Science, 1998
University of Sci. & Tech. of China 

Research Areas

program profiling. In particular, he has designed efficient and effective dynamic slicing techniques which have a lot of applications in debugging runtime errors, intrusion detection, and preventing software piracy. He has designed architectural support for protecting sensitive data in symmetric shared memory processors. He has also conducted research on program tracing and profiling, which includes novel representations and creative compression techniques. Zhang is interested in program analysis, both dynamic and static, and their applications in software engineering and security related issues. 

Notable Awards

CSAW 2021 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.

2019 ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award on OOPLSA.

CSAW 2019 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.

2017 USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award.

2016 NDSS Distinguished Paper Award.

CSAW 2015 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.

2015 College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award, Purdue University

2015 CCS Best Paper Award.

University Scholar, 2014-present, Purdue University

2014 USENIX Security Best Student Paper Award.

2013 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and Best Paper Award in ASE.

2009 NSF Career Award.

2006 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award.

2003 ICSE Distinguished Paper Award. 

Notable Affiliations

Zhang is a member of ACM and IEEE. 

Publications

X. Zhang, N. Gupta, and R. Gupta, "Pruning Dynamic Slices With Confidence", ACM SIGPLAN
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2006.

X. Zhang and R. Gupta, "Whole Execution Traces and their Applications", ACM Transactions on
Architecture and Code Optimization, 2005.

X. Zhang and R. Gupta, "Matching Execution Histories of Program Versions", Conference and 13th
ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2005. 

Biography

Professor Zhang's research is on automatic debugging, software reliability,computer security, and program profiling. In particular, he has designed efficient and effective dynamic slicing techniques which have a lot of applications in debugging runtime errors, intrusion detection, and preventing software piracy. He has designed architectural support for protecting sensitive data in symmetric shared memory processors. He has also conducted research on program tracing and profiling, which includes novel representations and creative compression techniques. Zhang is interested in program analysis, both dynamic and static, and their applications in software engineering and security related issues.

Zhang is a member of ACM and IEEE.