Yue Chen

Name can be pronounced as: [ U Chan ]

ychen {[AT]} cs.fsu.edu http://YueChen.me

170 LOVE Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32304

(This page may be out-of-date; mostly shows my academic work.)

Currently Yue is working as a staff researcher at Palo Alto Networks, the largest cybersecurity company in the world, based on market cap.

Prior to that, he graduated as a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University, and fortunate to have Dr. Zhi Wang as his advisor. He received M.S. in Computer Science at Northeastern University, and B.Eng. in Information Security at Harbin Institute of Technology (World Top 3 in Engineering, ranked by US News).

His primary research interests are systems and security.

He was lucky to be interviewed by BSD Magazine, which also interviewed people like Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

Downgrade Attack on TrustZone
Yue Chen, Yulong Zhang, Zhi Wang, Tao Wei
arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05082
July 2017
► [ How the heart of trust becomes an Achilles' heel ]
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Media Coverage: English Spanish Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) German Polish Japanese Itailian Russian ...

Secure In-Cache Execution
Yue Chen, Mustakimur Khandaker, Zhi Wang
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID '17)
Atlanta, GA, USA, September 2017 (20%)
► [ Say Goodbye to Cold Boot Attacks; your data is always encrypted in memory ]
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Adaptive Android Kernel Live Patching
Yue Chen, Yulong Zhang, Zhi Wang, Liangzhao Xia, Chenfu Bao, Tao Wei
Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2017 (14.9%)
► [ Make Android Secure Again ]
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#KARMA #MakeAndroidSecureAgain

Pinpointing Vulnerabilities
Yue Chen, Mustakimur Khandaker, Zhi Wang
Proceedings of the 12th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS '17)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 2017 (18.6%)
► [ A Time Machine to pinpoint vulnerabilities ]
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Design and Implementation of SecPod, A Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
Xiaoguang Wang, Yong Qi, Zhi Wang, Yue Chen, Yajin Zhou
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Issue: 99, March 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2017.2675991
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Remix: On-demand Live Randomization
Yue Chen, Zhi Wang, David Whalley, Long Lu
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '16)
New Orleans, LA, USA, March 2016 (19%)
► [Fine-grained Dynamic, Live ASLR during Runtime, periodically or with random time intervals]
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Adaptive Kernel Live Patching: An Open Collaborative Effort to Ameliorate Android N-day Root Exploits
Yulong Zhang, Yue Chen, Chenfu Bao, Liangzhao Xia, Longri Zhen, Yongqiang Lu, Tao Wei
Black Hat USA 2016
Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 2016
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SecPod: a Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
Xiaoguang Wang, Yue Chen, Zhi Wang, Yong Qi, Yajin Zhou
Proceedings of the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '15)
Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 2015 (16%)
► [An extensible framework for virtualization-based security systems that can provide both strong isolation and compatibility with modern hardware]
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ARMlock: Hardware-based Fault Isolation for ARM
Yajin Zhou, Xiaoguang Wang, Yue Chen, Zhi Wang
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '14)
Scottsdale, AZ, USA, November 2014 (19%)
► [A software fault isolation system to sandbox untrusted code for ARM platforms]
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Introduction to Meltdown & Spectre
Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA, USA, March 2018
Securing Androids with Adaptive Live Patching
Finalist, Three-Minute Thesis™ Presentation Competition
Tallahassee, FL, USA, November 2017
Video
Securing Systems by Threat Mitigation and Adaptive Live Patching
Graduate Course: CIS 5935 Introductory Seminar on Research
Tallahassee, FL, USA, November 2017
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Runtime, Dynamic, and Fine-grained Live ASLR
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, January 2017
Adaptive Android Kernel Live Patching
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, January 2017
Remix: On-demand Live Randomization
1st Florida Security Workshop
Tampa, FL, USA, December 2016
Remix: On-demand Live Randomization
Bay Area Security Series (BASecX)
Sunnyvale, CA, USA, June 2016
Topics in Big Data
Yaspeed Information Technology
Remote Lectures & Consulting, February 2016
Anti-Skew: Single-Key Data Skew Mitigation for MapReduce
Advanced Database Seminar
Tallahassee, FL, USA, 2015
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Harvesting Developer Credentials in Android Apps
8th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '15)
New York City, NY, USA, June 2015

Downgrade Attack on TrustZone
20th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID '17)
Poster.pdf
Remix: On-demand Live Randomization
FSU CS Expo 2015
Poster.pdf
ARMlock: Hardware-based Fault Isolation for ARM
FSU CS Expo 2014
Poster.pdf

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Lab Instructor & Teaching Assistant of CS 6740 - Network Security at Northeastern University
Teaching Assistant of CS 5600 - Computer Systems at Northeastern University

Recitation Instructor of CS 1800 - Discrete Structures at Northeastern University

Yue takes part in various CTF and coding/algorithm contests on an irregular basis.

He loves traveling around, and taking photos using a compact camera or a cell phone.
Here are some pictures he has taken.