About

About me 🤓

Yiwen Xu is a a postgraduate student at Tsinghua University, focusing on malware migitation and also keen to fuzzing.

Please drop me an email (xuyiwen14@gmail.com) to contact if anything meets your interests.

Education

2020–2023 Tsinghua University, Software Engineering.

2016–2020 Hunan University, Information Security.

Research Interests

• IoT Security

• Fuzzing

• Cloud Security

Publications

• Automatic Policy Synthesis and Enforcement for Protecting Untrusted Deserialization (NDSS’24) Quan Zhang, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Chijin Zhou, and Yu Jiang

• Building Dynamic System Call Sandbox with Partial Order Analysis (OOPSLA’23) Quan Zhang, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Mingzhe Wang, Zhuo Su, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang, and Jiaguang Sun

• Midas: Safeguarding IoT Devices Against Malware via Real-Time Behavior Auditing. (EMSOFT’22) Yiwen Xu*, Zijing Yin* (Co-First), Yiwei Hou, Yu Jiang.

• Empirical Study of System Resources Abused by IoT Attackers. (ASE’22) Zijing Yin*, Yiwen Xu* (Co-First), Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang.

• EM-Fuzz: Augmented Firmware Fuzzing via Memory Checking. (EMSOFT’20 - Best Paper Nominee.) Jian Gao, Yiwen Xu, Yu Jiang, Zhe Liu,Wanli Chang, Xun Jiao, Jiaguang Sun.

• Scanner++: Enhanced Vulnerability Detection of Web Applications with Attack Intent Synchronization. (TOSEM’21) Zijing Yin, Yiwen Xu, Fuchen Ma, Haohao Gao, Lei Qiao, Yu Jiang.

Hobby

1. PADI-Certified Scuba Diver

   • Protect marine life and our oceans deserve better.
2. Fingerstyle Guitar and Piano
   • Love playing songs, like Red shoes dance, Let It Go, Say Something, Closer, etc.
   • Enjoy music from my favorite fingersyle guitarist Kotaro Oshio, a super star in many Asian countries and playing many beautiful songs.
3. Photography
   • Record slight changes in my life, keeping me motivated to take more photos.
   • See the Gallery Tab of my blog.
4. Outdoor hiking enthusiast