Portrait of Yajin Zhou

Yajin Zhou

ZJU 100-Young Professor College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University Co-founder, BlockSec
"If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it." — John Carmack

About

I am a ZJU 100‑Young Professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2015 (Advisor: Prof. Xuxian Jiang) and subsequently served as a Senior Security Researcher at Qihoo 360. I am also a co‑founder of BlockSec, a company providing blockchain security and compliance solutions.

I have published 70+ papers with 10,000+ citations (see Google Scholar). One of my papers was included in the normalized list of Top‑100 Security Papers since 1981, and I received the Most Influential Scholar Award for contributions to Security and Privacy. I currently serve as Chief Scientist (PI) of a National Key R&D Program funded by China's Ministry of Science and Technology, a PC member/reviewer for IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, and ACM CCS, and an expert reviewer for funding programs in Singapore, France, and Hong Kong.

Research

My research spans system and blockchain security, including software security, operating system security, and hardware-assisted security, with an increasing focus on emerging areas such as smart-contract security, DeFi security, and the underground cybercrime. I continue to advance problems across traditional system security while building end-to-end protection for modern blockchain ecosystems.

Impact

Many of my academic results have been adopted into production—not only at BlockSec, but earlier at Qihoo 360. This includes our early Android security work that advanced mobile security: techniques for malware detection and anti-repackaging/anti-piracy were productized and deployed at scale. Our blockchain research has helped prevent multi-million-dollar attacks and support on-chain investigations for regulators and law-enforcement worldwide.

A tight two-way loop between industry and academia turns security incidents and real-world needs into sharper research questions, while academic inquiry abstracts root causes and opens new directions that feed back into products—sustaining true academy-industry synergy.

Dataset Releases

Publications

Complete list available on Google Scholar, and DBLP.

Papaer with * means I am the corresponding author.

h-index: 32, Citations: 10,661 (Updated on 2025-10-11)

Selected Publications

2026

  • SIGMETRICS — Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible Blockchains
    Yicheng Huo, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou*, Ting Yu, Lei Wu, Cong Wang
    [Paper]

2025

  • TDSC — Minoris: Practical Out-of-Emulator Kernel Module Fuzzing
    Yangxi Xiang, Feng Wang, Yuan Chen, Qiang Liu, Haoyu Wang, Jiashui Wang, Lei Wu, Chaoyuan Chen, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • ESORICS — NLSaber: Enhancing Netlink Family Fuzzing via Automated Syscall Description Generation
    Lin Ma, Xingwei Lin, Ziming Zhang, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Phishing Tactics Are Evolving: An Empirical Study of Phishing Contracts on Ethereum
    Bowen He, Xiaohui Hu, Yufeng Hu, Ting Yu, Rui Chang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Towards Understanding and Analyzing Instant Cryptocurrency Exchanges
    Yufeng Hu, Yingshi Sun, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Dissecting Payload‑based Transaction Phishing on Ethereum
    Zhuo Chen, Yufeng Hu, Bowen He, Dong Luo, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • EuroSys — ParallelEVM: Operation‑Level Concurrent Transaction Execution for EVM‑Compatible Blockchains
    Haoran Lin, Hang Feng, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu
    [Paper]

2024

  • CCS — Toss a Fault to BpfChecker: Revealing Implementation Flaws for eBPF runtimes with Differential Fuzzing
    Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • USENIX ATC — SlimArchive: A Lightweight Architecture for Ethereum Archive Nodes
    Hang Feng, Yufeng Hu, Yinghan Kou, Runhuai Li, Jianfeng Zhu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]

2023

  • IEEE TDSC — DeFiRanger: Detecting DeFi Price Manipulation Attacks
    Siwei Wu, Zhou Yu, Dabao Wang, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu, Haoyu Wang, Xingliang Yuan
    [Paper]
  • CCS — TxPhishScope: Towards Detecting and Understanding Transaction‑based Phishing on Ethereum
    Bowen He, Yuan Chen, Zhuo Chen, Xiaohui Hu, Yufeng Hu, Lei Wu, Rui Chang, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • S&P — VIDEZZO: Dependency‑aware Virtual Device Fuzzing
    Qiang Liu, Flavio Toffalini, Yajin Zhou*, Mathias Payer
    [Paper]
  • DAC — DriverJar: Lightweight Device Driver Isolation for ARM
    Huamao Wu, Yuan Chen, Yajin Zhou*, Yifei Wang, Lubo Zhang
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — MorFuzz: A Framework for Fuzzing WebAssembly Runtimes
    Jinyan Xu, Yiyuan Liu, Sirui He, Haoran Lin, Yajin Zhou*, Cong Wang
    [Paper]
  • S&P — When Top-down Meets Bottom-up: Detecting and Exploiting Use-After-Cleanup Bugs in Linux Kernel
    Lin Ma, Duoming Zhou, Hanjie Wu, Yajin Zhou*, Rui Chang, Hao Xiong, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]

2022

  • DAC — RegVault: Hardware Assisted Selective Data Randomization for Operating System Kernels
    Jinyan Xu, Haoran Lin, Ziqi Yuan, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • EuroSys — OPEC: Operation-based Security Isolation for Bare-metal Embedded Systems
    Xia Zhou, Jiaqi Li, Wenlong Zhang, Yajin Zhou*, Wenbo Shen, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • TOSEM — Time-Travel Investigation: Towards Building A Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum
    Siwei Wu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*, Runhuai Li, Zhi Wang, Xiapu Luo, Cong Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASPLOS — EXAMINER: Automatically Locating Inconsistent Instructions between Real Devices and CPU Emulators for ARM
    Muhui Jiang, Tianyi Xu, Yajin Zhou*, Yufeng Hu, Ming Zhong, Lei Wu, Xiapu Luo, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — SGXLock: Towards Efficiently Establishing Mutual Distrust Between Host Application and Enclave for SGX
    Yuan Chen, Jiaqi Li, Guorui Xu, Yajin Zhou*, Zhi Wang, Cong Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]

2021

  • SOSP — Forerunner: Constraint-based Speculative Transaction Execution for Ethereum
    Yang Chen, Zhongxin Guo, Runhuai Li, Shuo Chen, Lidong Zhou, Yajin Zhou, Xian Zhang
    [Paper]
  • CCS — ECMO: Peripheral Transplantation to Rehost Embedded Linux Kernels
    Muhui Jiang, Lin Ma, Yajin Zhou*, Qiang Liu, Cen Zhang, Zhi Wang, Xiapu Luo, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASE — FirmGuide: Boosting the Capability of Rehosting Embedded Linux Kernels through Model-Guided Kernel Execution
    Qiang Liu^, Cen Zhang^, Lin Ma, Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu, Wenbo Shen, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • WWW — Towards Understanding and Demystifying Bitcoin Mixing Services
    Lei Wu, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou*, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Zhi Wang, Fan Zhang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — POP and PUSH: Demystifying and Defending against (Mach) Port-oriented Programming
    Min Zheng, Xiaolong Bai, Yajin Zhou*, Chao Zhang, Fuping Qu
    [Paper]

2020

  • ISSTA — An Empirical Study on ARM Disassembly Tools
    Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou*, Xiapu Luo, Ruoyu Wang, Yang Liu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ICDCS — HybrIDX: New Hybrid Index for Volume-hiding Range Queries in Data Outsourcing Services (Best Paper Award)
    Kui Ren, Yu Guo, Jiaqi Li, Xiaohua Jia, Cong Wang, Yajin Zhou, Sheng Wang, Ning Cao, Feifei Li
    [Paper]

2019

  • TDSC — PPSB: An Open and Flexible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Safe Browsing
    Helei Cui, Yajin Zhou*, Cong Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yuefeng Du, Qian Wang
    [Paper]
  • CCS — Different is Good: Detecting the Use of Uninitialized Variables through Differential Replay
    Mengchen Cao, Xiantong Hou, Tao Wang, Hunter Qu, Yajin Zhou*, Xiaolong Bai, Fuwei Wang
    [Paper]

2017

  • USENIX Security — Malton: Towards On-Device Non-Invasive Mobile Malware Analysis for ART
    Lei Xue, Yajin Zhou, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Guofei Gu
    [Paper]

2014

  • CCS — ARMlock: Hardware-based Fault Isolation for ARM
    Yajin Zhou, Xiaoguang Wang, Yue Chen, Zhi Wang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — AirBag: Boosting Smartphone Resistance to Malware Infection
    Chiachih Wu, Yajin Zhou, Kunal Patel, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]

2013

  • CCS — The Impact of Vendor Customizations on Android Security
    Lei Wu, Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou, Chiachih Wu, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Detecting Passive Content Leaks and Pollution in Android Applications
    Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]

2012

  • S&P — Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution
    Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Hey, You, Get off of My Market: Detecting Malicious Apps in Official and Alternative Android Markets
    Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Wu Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Stock Android Smartphones
    Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]

Complete Publication List

All publications organized by year

2026
  • SIGMETRICS — Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible Blockchains
    Yicheng Huo, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou*, Ting Yu, Lei Wu, Cong Wang
    [Paper]
2025
  • TDSC — Minoris: Practical Out-of-Emulator Kernel Module Fuzzing
    Yangxi Xiang, Feng Wang, Yuan Chen, Qiang Liu, Haoyu Wang, Jiashui Wang, Lei Wu, Chaoyuan Chen, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • Computers & Security — Detecting DBMS Bugs with Context-Sensitive Instantiation and Multi-Plan Execution
    Jiaqi Li, Ke Wang, Yaoguang Chen, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu, Jiashui Wang
    [Paper]
  • ESORICS — NLSaber: Enhancing Netlink Family Fuzzing via Automated Syscall Description Generation
    Lin Ma, Xingwei Lin, Ziming Zhang, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • ASPLOS — DejaVuzz: Disclosing Transient Execution Bugs with Dynamic Swappable Memory and Differential Information Flow Tracking Assisted Processor Fuzzing
    Jinyan Xu, Yangye Zhou, Xingzhi Zhang, Yinshuai Li, Qinhan Tan, Yinqian Zhang, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang, Wenbo Shen
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — Harness: Transparent and Lightweight Protection of Vehicle Control on Untrusted Android Automotive Operating System
    Haochen Gong, Siyu Hong, Shenyi Yang, Rui Chang, Wenbo Shen, Ziqi Yuan, Chenyang Yu, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — Surviving in Dark Forest: Towards Evading the Attacks from Front‑Running Bots in Application Layer
    Zuchao Ma, Muhui Jiang, Feng Luo, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • TOCS: RegVault II: Achieving Hardware-Assisted Selective Kernel Data Randomization for Multiple Architectures
    Ruorong Guo, Yangye Zhou, Jinyan Xu, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang
    [Paper]
  • ICDCS — HarDTAPE: Hardware Dedicated Trusted transAction Pre-Executor
    Sirui He, Zhibo Sun, Yuan Chen, Yajin Zhou, Cong Wang
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Phishing Tactics Are Evolving: An Empirical Study of Phishing Contracts on Ethereum
    Bowen He, Xiaohui Hu, Yufeng Hu, Ting Yu, Rui Chang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Towards Understanding and Analyzing Instant Cryptocurrency Exchanges
    Yufeng Hu, Yingshi Sun, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Piecing Together the Jigsaw Puzzle of Transactions on Heterogeneous Blockchain Networks
    Xiaohui Hu, Hang Feng, Pengcheng Xia, Gareth Tyson, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Haoyu Wang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Dissecting Payload‑based Transaction Phishing on Ethereum
    Zhuo Chen, Yufeng Hu, Bowen He, Dong Luo, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • EuroSys — ParallelEVM: Operation‑Level Concurrent Transaction Execution for EVM‑Compatible Blockchains
    Haoran Lin, Hang Feng, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu
    [Paper]
2024
  • Middleware — LightZone: Lightweight Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation for ARM64
    Ziqi Yuan, Siyu Hong, Ruorong Guo, Rui Chang, Mingyu Gao, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • ISSTA — Atlas: Automating Cross-Language Fuzzing on Android Closed-Source Libraries
    Hao Xiong, Qinming Dai, Rui Chang, Mingran Qiu, Renxiang Wang, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • CCS — Toss a Fault to BpfChecker: Revealing Implementation Flaws for eBPF runtimes with Differential Fuzzing
    Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — DMAAUTH: A Lightweight Pointer Integrity‑based Secure Architecture to Defeat DMA Attacks
    Xingkai Wang, Wenbo Shen, Yujie Bu, Jinmeng Zhou, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • USENIX ATC — SlimArchive: A Lightweight Architecture for Ethereum Archive Nodes
    Hang Feng, Yufeng Hu, Yinghan Kou, Runhuai Li, Jianfeng Zhu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
2023
  • IEEE TDSC — DeFiRanger: Detecting DeFi Price Manipulation Attacks
    Siwei Wu, Zhou Yu, Dabao Wang, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu, Haoyu Wang, Xingliang Yuan
    [Paper]
  • CCS — TxPhishScope: Towards Detecting and Understanding Transaction‑based Phishing on Ethereum
    Bowen He, Yuan Chen, Zhuo Chen, Xiaohui Hu, Yufeng Hu, Lei Wu, Rui Chang, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou*
    [Paper]
  • CCS — Travelling the Hypervisor and SSD: A Tag-Based Approach Against Crypto Ransomware with Fine-Grained Data Recovery
    Boyang Ma, Yilin Yang, Jinku Li, Fengwei Zhang, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Jianfeng Ma
    [Paper]
  • IEEE TDSC — An Empirical Study on the Insecurity of End-of-Life (EoL) IoT Devices
    Dingding Wang, Muhui Jiang, Rui Chang, Yajin Zhou*, Hexiang Wang, Baolei Hou, Lei Wu, Xiapu Luo
    [Paper]
  • IEEE TSE — Demystifying Random Number in Ethereum Smart Contract: Taxonomy, Vulnerability Identification, and Attack Detection
    Peng Qian, Jianting He, Lingling Lu, Siwei Wu, Zhipeng Lu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*, Qinming He
    [Paper]
  • ISSTA — Detecting Underground Economy Apps Based on UTG Similarity
    Zhuo Chen, Jie Liu, Yubo Hu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Yiling He, Xianhao Liao, Ke Wang, Jinku Li, Zhan Qin
    [Paper]
  • IEEE TDSC — Lifting The Grey Curtain: Analyzing the Ecosystem of Android Scam Apps
    Zhuo Chen, Lei Wu, Yubo Hu, Jing Cheng, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou, Zhushou Tang, Yexuan Chen, Jinku Li, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • S&P — VIDEZZO: Dependency‑aware Virtual Device Fuzzing
    Qiang Liu, Flavio Toffalini, Yajin Zhou*, Mathias Payer
    [Paper]
  • DAC — DriverJar: Lightweight Device Driver Isolation for ARM
    Huamao Wu, Yuan Chen, Yajin Zhou*, Yifei Wang, Lubo Zhang
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — MorFuzz: A Framework for Fuzzing WebAssembly Runtimes
    Jinyan Xu, Yiyuan Liu, Sirui He, Haoran Lin, Yajin Zhou*, Cong Wang
    [Paper]
  • S&P — When Top-down Meets Bottom-up: Detecting and Exploiting Use-After-Cleanup Bugs in Linux Kernel
    Lin Ma, Duoming Zhou, Hanjie Wu, Yajin Zhou*, Rui Chang, Hao Xiong, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASPLOS — VDom: Virtual Device Fuzzing
    Ziqi Yuan, Siyu Hong, Rui Chang, Yajin Zhou, Wenbo Shen, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
2022
  • RAID — Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Quantifying the Risk of Unlimited Approval of ERC20 Tokens on Ethereum
    Dabao Wang, Hang Feng, Siwei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, Xingliang Yuan
    [Paper]
  • ISSTA — NCScope: Hardware-Assisted Analyzer for Native Code in Android Apps
    Hao Zhou, Shuohan Wu, Xiapu Luo, Ting Wang, Yajin Zhou, Chao Zhang, Haipeng Cai
    [Paper]
  • DAC — RegVault: Hardware Assisted Selective Data Randomization for Operating System Kernels
    Jinyan Xu, Haoran Lin, Ziqi Yuan, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • EuroSys — OPEC: Operation-based Security Isolation for Bare-metal Embedded Systems
    Xia Zhou, Jiaqi Li, Wenlong Zhang, Yajin Zhou*, Wenbo Shen, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • TOSEM — Time-Travel Investigation: Towards Building A Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum
    Siwei Wu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou*, Runhuai Li, Zhi Wang, Xiapu Luo, Cong Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASPLOS — EXAMINER: Automatically Locating Inconsistent Instructions between Real Devices and CPU Emulators for ARM
    Muhui Jiang, Tianyi Xu, Yajin Zhou*, Yufeng Hu, Ming Zhong, Lei Wu, Xiapu Luo, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Uncovering Cross-Context Inconsistent Access Control Enforcement in Android
    Hao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen, Yajin Zhou, Ting Wang
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — SGXLock: Towards Efficiently Establishing Mutual Distrust Between Host Application and Enclave for SGX
    Yuan Chen, Jiaqi Li, Guorui Xu, Yajin Zhou*, Zhi Wang, Cong Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — Towards Automatically Reverse Engineering Vehicle Diagnostic Protocols
    Le Yu, Yangyang Liu, Pengfei Jing, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Kaifa Zhao, Yajin Zhou, Ting Wang, Guofei Gu, Sen Nie, Shi Wu
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network
    Lei Xue, Yangyang Liu, Tianqi Li, Kaifa Zhao, Jianfeng Li, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Guofei Gu
    [Paper]
2021
  • SEED — H2Cache: Building a Hybrid RandomizedCache Hierarchy for Mitigating Cache Side-Channel Attacks
    Xingjian Zhang, Ziqi Yuan, Rui Chang, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • SOSP — Forerunner: Constraint-based Speculative Transaction Execution for Ethereum
    Yang Chen, Zhongxin Guo, Runhuai Li, Shuo Chen, Lidong Zhou, Yajin Zhou, Xian Zhang
    [Paper]
  • CCS — ECMO: Peripheral Transplantation to Rehost Embedded Linux Kernels
    Muhui Jiang, Lin Ma, Yajin Zhou*, Qiang Liu, Cen Zhang, Zhi Wang, Xiapu Luo, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASE — FirmGuide: Boosting the Capability of Rehosting Embedded Linux Kernels through Model-Guided Kernel Execution
    Qiang Liu^, Cen Zhang^, Lin Ma, Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou*, Lei Wu, Wenbo Shen, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ASE — Finding the Missing Piece: Permission Specification Analysis for Android NDK
    Hao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Shuohan Wu, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Ting Chen, Ting Wang
    [Paper]
  • ESORICS — Succinct Scriptable NIZK via Trusted Hardware
    Bingshen Zhang, Yuan Chen, Jiaqi Li, Yajin Zhou*, Phuc Thai, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • APSys — Revisiting Challenges for Selective Data Protection of Real Applications
    Lin Ma, Jinyan Xu, Jiadong Sun, Yajin Zhou, Xun Xie, Wenbo Shen, Rui Chang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ISSTA — Parema: An Unpacking Framework for Demystifying VM-based Android Packers
    Lei Xue, Yuxiao Yan, Luyi Yan, Muhui Jiang, Xiapu Luo, Dinghao Wu, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • TSE — A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps
    Yutian Tang, Haoyu Wang, Xian Zhan, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Hao Zhou, Qiben Yan, Yulei Sui, Jacky Wai Keung
    [Paper]
  • SBC — Towards A First Step to Understand Flash Loan and Its Applications in DeFi Ecosystem
    Dabao Wang, Siwei Wu, Ziling Lin, Lei Wu, Xingliang Yuan, Yajin Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • S&P — Happer: Unpacking Android Apps via a Hardware-Assisted Approach
    Lei Xue, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Yang Shi, Guofei Gu, Fengwei Zhang, Man Ho Au
    [Paper]
  • WWW — Towards Understanding and Demystifying Bitcoin Mixing Services
    Lei Wu, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou*, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Zhi Wang, Fan Zhang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — POP and PUSH: Demystifying and Defending against (Mach) Port-oriented Programming
    Min Zheng, Xiaolong Bai, Yajin Zhou*, Chao Zhang, Fuping Qu
    [Paper]
  • SIGMETRICS — Tracking Counterfeit Cryptocurrency End-to-end
    Bingyu Gao, Haoyu Wang, Pengcheng Xia, Siwei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Gareth Tyson
    [Paper]
2020
  • ASE — Demystifying Diehard Android Apps
    Hao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yutian Tang, Lei Xue, Ting Wang
    [Paper]
  • TSE — PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps
    Lei Xue, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Le Yu, Dinghao Wu, Yajin Zhou, Xiaobo Ma
    [Paper]
  • TDSC — JNI Global References Are Still Vulnerable: Attacks and Defenses
    Yi He, Yuan Zhou, Yajin Zhou*, Qi Li*, Kun Sun, Yacong Gu, Yong Jiang
    [Paper]
  • ISSTA — An Empirical Study on ARM Disassembly Tools
    Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou*, Xiapu Luo, Ruoyu Wang, Yang Liu, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ICDCS — HybrIDX: New Hybrid Index for Volume-hiding Range Queries in Data Outsourcing Services (Best Paper Award)
    Kui Ren, Yu Guo, Jiaqi Li, Xiaohua Jia, Cong Wang, Yajin Zhou, Sheng Wang, Ning Cao, Feifei Li
    [Paper]
  • CODASPY — PESC: A Per System-Call Stack Canary Design for Linux Kernel
    Jiadong Sun, Xia Zhou, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
2019
  • ASE — Demystifying Application Performance Management Libraries for Android
    Yutian Tang, Zhan Xian, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Zhou Xu, Yajin Zhou, Qiben Yan
    [Paper]
  • TDSC — PPSB: An Open and Flexible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Safe Browsing
    Helei Cui, Yajin Zhou*, Cong Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yuefeng Du, Qian Wang
    [Paper]
  • CCS — Different is Good: Detecting the Use of Uninitialized Variables through Differential Replay
    Mengchen Cao, Xiantong Hou, Tao Wang, Hunter Qu, Yajin Zhou*, Xiaolong Bai, Fuwei Wang
    [Paper]
  • CCS — LightBox: Full-stack Protected Stateful Middlebox at Lightning Speed
    Huayi Duan, Cong Wang, Xingliang Yuan, Yajin Zhou, Qian Wang, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • RAID — Towards a First Step to Understand the Cryptocurrency Stealing Attack on Ethereum
    Zhen Cheng^, Xinrui Hou^, Runhuai Li, Yajin Zhou*, Xiapu Luo, Jinku Li, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • ICDCS — SPEED: Accelerating Enclave Applications via Secure Deduplication
    Helei Cui, Huayi Duan, Zhan Qin, Cong Wang, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • TDSC — Dating with Scambots: Understanding the Ecosystem of Fraudulent Dating Applications
    Yangyu Hu, Haoyu Wang*, Yajin Zhou*, Yao Guo, Li Li, Bingxuan Luo, Fangren Xu
    [Paper]
  • EuroS&P — Adaptive Call-site Sensitive Control Flow Integrity (Best Paper Award)
    Mustakimur Khandaker, Abu Naser, Wenqing Liu, Zhi Wang, Yajin Zhou, Yueqiang Cheng
    [Paper]
  • TIFS — NDroid: Towards Tracking Information Flows Across Multiple Android Contexts
    Lei Xue, Chenxiong Qian, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Yuru Shao, Alvin T.S. Chan
    [Paper]
2018
  • ICPADS — Towards Privacy-Preserving Malware Detection Systems for Android (Best Paper Award)
    Helei Cui, Yajin Zhou, Cong Wang, Qi Li, Kui Ren
    [Paper]
  • TDSC — AdCapsule: Practical Confinement of Advertisements in Android Applications
    Xiaonan Zhu, Jinku Li, Yajin Zhou, Jianfeng Ma
    [Paper]
2017
  • ESEC/FSE — When Program Analysis Meets Mobile Security: An Industrial Study of Misusing Android Internet Sockets
    Wenqi Bu, Minhui Xue, Lihua Xu, Yajin Zhou, Zhushou Tang, Tao Xie
    [Paper]
  • USENIX Security — Malton: Towards On-Device Non-Invasive Mobile Malware Analysis for ART
    Lei Xue, Yajin Zhou, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Guofei Gu
    [Paper]
  • TDSC — Design and Implementation of SecPod, A Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
    Xiaoguang Wang, Yong Qi, Zhi Wang, Yue Chen, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
2016
  • RAID — Blender: Self-randomizing Address Space Layout for Android Apps
    Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
2015
  • USENIX ATC — SecPod: a Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
    Xiaoguang Wang, Yue Chen, Zhi Wang, Yong Qi, Yajin Zhou
    [Paper]
  • WiSec — Harvesting Developer Credentials in Android Apps
    Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • ASIACCS — Hybrid User-level Sandboxing of Third-party Android Apps
    Yajin Zhou, Kunal Patel, Lei Wu, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
2014
  • CCS — ARMlock: Hardware-based Fault Isolation for ARM
    Yajin Zhou, Xiaoguang Wang, Yue Chen, Zhi Wang
    [Paper]
  • TRUST — Owner-centric Protection of Unstructured Data on Smartphones
    Yajin Zhou, Kapil Singh, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — AirBag: Boosting Smartphone Resistance to Malware Infection
    Chiachih Wu, Yajin Zhou, Kunal Patel, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • CODASPY — DIVILAR: Diversifying Intermediate Language for Anti-Repackaging on Android Platform
    Wu Zhou, Zhi Wang, Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
2013
  • CCS — The Impact of Vendor Customizations on Android Security
    Lei Wu, Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou, Chiachih Wu, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • CODASPY — Fast, Scalable Detection of “Piggybacked” Mobile Applications (Best Paper Award)
    Wu Zhou, Yajin Zhou, Michael Grace, Xuxian Jiang, Shihong Zou
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Detecting Passive Content Leaks and Pollution in Android Applications
    Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
2012
  • MobiSys — RiskRanker: Scalable and Accurate Zero-day Android Malware Detection
    Michael Grace*, Yajin Zhou*, Qiang Zhang, Shihong Zou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • S&P — Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution
    Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • CODASPY — DroidMOSS: Detecting Repackaged Smartphone Applications in Third-Party Android Marketplaces (Best Paper Award)
    Wu Zhou, Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang, Peng Ning
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Hey, You, Get off of My Market: Detecting Malicious Apps in Official and Alternative Android Markets
    Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Wu Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
  • NDSS — Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Stock Android Smartphones
    Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
    [Paper]
2011
  • TRUST — Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications (on Android)
    Yajin Zhou, Xinwen Zhang, Xuxian Jiang, Vince W. Freeh
    [Paper]

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