Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai Receives ACM AsiaCCS 2026 Test-of-Time Award

Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai from the Department of Computer Science has received the Test-of-Time Award at the 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2026), recognising his 2011 paper, “Jump-oriented programming: a new class of code-reuse attack”.

The paper, co-authored with Tyler K. Bletsch, Xuxian Jiang, and Vincent W. Freeh, was first presented at AsiaCCS 2011 in Hong Kong. It introduced jump-oriented programming, a code- reuse attack technique that circumvents the stack-based defences designed to stop earlier return-oriented programming attacks, revealing a new class of vulnerability in how software could be exploited without injecting malicious code. 

The ACM AsiaCCS Test-of-Time Award honours papers that have demonstrated enduring significance and lasting contributions to the field of computer and communications security.

15 years on, the paper continues to be cited and built upon in the security research community studying code-reuse attacks and defences against them.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Liang on this recognition.