Bio

Zhongshu Gu is a Research Scientist in the Security Research Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University (Advisor: Prof. Dongyan Xu) and B.S. from Fudan University, both in Computer Science.
His current research interests are in the areas of systems security and AI security.

Selected Publications (Full List)

"Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential Containers,"
Proceedings of the 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 2024 (16.8%)
Enriquillo Valdez, Salman Ahmed, Zhongshu Gu, Christophe de Dinechin, Pau-Chen Cheng, Hani Jamjoom.

"SeaK: Rethinking the Design of a Secure Allocator for OS Kernel,"
Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2024), Philadelphia, PA, August 2024 (18.3%)
Zicheng Wang, Yicheng Guang, Yueqi Chen, Zhenpeng Lin, Michael Le, Dang K Le, Dan Williams, Xinyu Xing, Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom.

"Intel TDX Demystified: A Top-Down Approach,"
ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 56, Issue 9, April 2024 (doi)
Pau-Chen Cheng, Wojciech Ozga, Enriquillo Valdez, Salman Ahmed, Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom, Hubertus Franke, James Bottomley.

"DeTA: Minimizing Data Leaks in Federated Learning via Decentralized and Trustworthy Aggregation,"
Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys 2024), Athens, Greece, April 2024 (14.6%)
Pau-Chen Cheng, Kevin Eykholt, Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom, K. R. Jayaram, Enriquillo Valdez, Ashish Verma.

"GNNIC: Finding Long-Lost Sibling Functions with Abstract Similarity,"
Proceedings of the 31st Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024), San Diego, CA, February 2024 (20.2%)
Qiushi Wu, Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom, Kangjie Lu.

"Glitching Demystified: Analyzing Control-flow-based Glitching Attacks and Defenses,"
Proceedings of the 51st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021), Virtual, June 2021 (16.3%)
Chad Spensky, Aravind Machiry, Nathan Burow, Hamed Okhravi, Rick Housley, Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna.

"Scarecrow: Deactivating Evasive Malware via Its Own Evasive Logic,"
Proceedings of the 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020), Virtual, June 2020 (16.5%)
Jialong Zhang, Zhongshu Gu, Jiyong Jang, Dhilung Kirat, Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Xiaokui Shu, Heqing Huang.

"Houdini’s Escape: Breaking the Resource Rein of Linux Control Groups,"
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019), London, UK, Nov 2019(16.0%)
Xing Gao, Zhongshu Gu, Zhengfa Li, Hani Jamjoom, Cong Wang.

"Reaching Data Confidentiality and Model Accountability on the CalTrain,"
Proceedings of the 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2019), Portland, OR, June 2019 (21.4%)
Zhongshu Gu, Hani Jamjoom, Dong Su, Heqing Huang, Jialong Zhang, Tengfei Ma, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Ian Molloy.

"Confidential Inference via Ternary Model Partitioning," Preprint
arXiv:1807.00969([cs.CR])
Zhongshu Gu, Heqing Huang, Jialong Zhang, Dong Su, Hani Jamjoom, Ankita Lamba, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Ian Molloy.

"Security Namespace: Making Linux Security Frameworks Available to Containers,"
Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2018), Baltimore, MD, August 2018 (19.1%)
Yuqiong Sun, David Safford, Mimi Zohar, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Zhongshu Gu, Trent Jaeger.

"Protecting Intellectual Property of Deep Neural Networks with Watermarking,"
Proceedings of the 13th ACM ASIA Conference on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2018), Incheon, Korea, June 2018 (20%)
Jialong Zhang, Zhongshu Gu, Jiyong Jang, Hui Wu, Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Heqing Huang, Ian Molloy.

"Securing Real-Time Microcontroller Systems through Customized Memory View Switching,"
Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2018), San Diego, CA, February 2018 (21%)
Chung Hwan Kim, Taegyu Kim, Hongjun Choi, Zhongshu Gu, Byoungyoung Lee, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"ContainerLeaks: Emerging Security Threats of Information Leakages in Container Clouds,"
Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2017), Denver, CO, June 2017 (22.3%)
Xing Gao, Zhongshu Gu, Mehmet Kayaalp, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Haining Wang.

"Privacy Implications of DNSSEC Look-aside Validation," Short Paper
Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, June 2017
Aziz Mohaisen, Zhongshu Gu, Kui Ren.

"HERCULE: Attack Story Reconstruction via Community Discovery on Correlated Log Graph,"
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2016), Los Angeles, CA, December 2016 (22.8%)
Kexin Pei, Zhongshu Gu, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Shiqing Ma, Fei Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Luo Si, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"vMocity: Traveling VMs across Heterogeneous Clouds,"
Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2016), Budapest, Hungary, September 2016 (35%)
Cheng Cheng, Zhui Deng, Zhongshu Gu, Dongyan Xu.

"GUITAR: Piecing Together Android App GUIs from Memory Images," Best Paper Award
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015), Denver, CO, October 2015 (19.8%)
Brendan Saltaformaggio, Rohit Bhatia, Zhongshu Gu, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"VCR: App-Agnostic Recovery of Photographic Evidence from Android Device Memory Images,"
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015), Denver, CO, October 2015 (19.8%)
Brendan Saltaformaggio, Rohit Bhatia, Zhongshu Gu, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"LEAPS: Detecting Camouflaged Attacks with Statistical Learning Guided by Program Analysis,"
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2015 (21.7%)
Zhongshu Gu, Kexin Pei, Qifan Wang, Luo Si, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"DSCRETE: Automatic Rendering of Forensic Information from Memory Images via Application Logic Reuse," Best Student Paper Award
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2014), San Diego, CA, August 2014 (19.1%)
Brendan Saltaformaggio, Zhongshu Gu, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"FACE-CHANGE: Application-Driven Dynamic Kernel View Switching in a Virtual Machine,"
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2014), Atlanta, GA, June 2014 (30%)
Zhongshu Gu, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"DRIP: A Framework for Purifying Trojaned Kernel Drivers,"
Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-PDS 2013), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 (22.1%)
Zhongshu Gu, William N. Sumner, Zhui Deng, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu.

"Process Implanting: A New Active Introspection Framework for Virtualization,"
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems(SRDS 2011), Madrid, Spain, October 2011 (26.1%)
Zhongshu Gu, Zhui Deng, Dongyan Xu, Xuxian Jiang.

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