LIANG Zhenkai 梁振凯 Mailing address: 13 Computing Drive Computing 1, #03-27 Singapore, 117417 Phone: (+65) 6516 1226 Email: liangzk @ comp.nus.edu.sg Office: COM1 #03-16

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. My interests include research in systems and system security, as well as education. I'm advising the Curiosity Reserach Group with the following missions:

Understanding systems (理解系统), abstracting knowledge (提炼知识), and connecting facts (参悟规律).

We are looking for curious minds to join our exploration. If you share the same view of the world, please do not hesitate to reach me. Curiosity is required, while mentality for repairing things (such as bicycles) is a plus. Positions are available at all levels, from undergraduate researcher/interns, Ph.D. students, and postdoctural research fellows.

Selected Publications of Current Research Focus Full List

• WATSON: Abstracting Behaviors from Audit Logs via Aggregation of Contextual Semantics.
  Jun Zeng, Zheng Leong Chua, Yinfang Chen, Kaihang Ji, Zhenkai Liang and Jian Mao.
  In Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2021.
• One Engine To Serve 'em All: Inferring Taint Rules Without Architectural Semantics.
  Zheng Leong Chua, Yanhao Wang, Teodora Baluta, Prateek Saxena, Zhenkai Liang, and Purui Su.
  In Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2019.
• Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures From Binaries.
  Zheng Leong Chua, Shiqi Shen, Prateek Saxena, and Zhenkai Liang.
  In USENIX Security Symposium, August 2017.
• Data-Oriented Programming: On the Expressiveness of Non-Control Data Attacks.
  Hong Hu, Shweta Shinde, Sendroiu Adrian, Zheng Leong Chua, Prateek Saxena, and Zhenkai Liang.
  In the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2016.
• Tool, Technique, and Tao in Computer Security Education.
  Zhenkai Liang and Jian Mao.
  In IEEE Reliability Magazine, August/September/October, 2015.
• Automatic Generation of Data-Oriented Exploits.
  Hong Hu, Zheng Leong Chua, Sendroiu Adrian, Prateek Saxena, and Zhenkai Liang.
  In the 24th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington DC, August 2015.
• Protecting Sensitive Web Content from Client-side Vulnerabilities with Cryptons. [PDF]
  Xinshu Dong, Zhaofeng Chen, Hossein Siadati, Shruti Tople, Prateek Saxena, and Zhenkai Liang.
  In the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, November 2013.
• Codejail: Application-transparent Isolation of Libraries with Tight Program Interactions. [PDF]
  Yongzheng Wu, Sai Sathyanarayan, Roland Yap, and Zhenkai Liang.
  In the 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Pisa, Italy, September 2012.
• Identifying and Analyzing Pointer Misuses for Sophisticated Memory-corruption Exploit Diagnosis.[PDF]
  Mingwei Zhang, Aravind Prakash, Xiaolei Li, Zhenkai Liang, and Heng Yin.
  In the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2012.