I am a master student at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yu Jiang, working with folks at WingTecher Lab - Software System Security Assurance Group. I received my bachelor’s degree from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (with the highest honor).
I am interested in the intersection of security, software systems, and data. To understand and mitigate evolving computer security threats, I work to design and develop practical tools to detect and defend against a wide range of vulnerabilities in software and systems, e.g., attack investigation (S&P Oakland’23, ICSE’24), detection (IP&M 2022, FSE’25), and defense (EMSOFT’22, ISSTA’25). I am also working on an LLM4Sec project with Prof. Grant Ho at UChicago from summer 2024.
In my free time, I am into table tennis, running, science fictions, and livehouse band performance.
News
- 01/2025: RansomRadar is accepted to FSE’25. This year’s conference will be co-located with ISSTA’25 in Norway. 🎉
- 12/2024: Remembrall is accepted to ISSTA’25. Let’s meet in Trondheim, Norway next June. 🎉
- 07/2024: I am spending this summer at the University of Chicago as a visiting student researcher, hosted by Prof. Grant Ho. Excited!
- 04/2024: Gave a talk in ICSE’24 research track. Shout out to the new friends I met in Lisbon!
- 10/2023: MarauderMap is accepted to ICSE’24. Let’s meet in Lisbon, Portugal next April. 🎉
- 03/2023: Animagus is accepted to S&P Oakland’23. 🎉
- 09/2022: New journey begins at Tsinghua University!
- 08/2022: Midas is accepted to EMSOFT’22. 🎉
- 07/2022: CJI-Framework is accepted to IP&M. 🎉
- 06/2022: Graduated from Sichuan University. Bye, Chengdu. Bye, pandas.🐼🐼🐼 Ceremony / Vlog
- 06/2022: Selected as ‘Top 10 Undergraduate of 2022’. Thank you for everyone who supports me! News
- 05/2022: Gave a talk in the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, SCU. News 网安菁英
Publications
Preventing Disruption of System Backup Against Ransomware Attacks
Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang, Wenhuan Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
The 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’25)
First-round Direct Acceptance: 23/553=4.16%
Ransomware Detection Through Temporal Correlation Between Encryption and I/O Behavior
Lihua Guo, Yiwei Hou, Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang, Yu Jiang
The 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’25)
First-round Direct Acceptance: 70/612=11.43%
MIDAS: Safeguarding IoT Devices Against Malware via Real-Time Behavior Auditing
Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Yiwei Hou, Jianzhong Liu, Yu Jiang
The 22nd ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT’22)
IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (TCAD 2022)
Honors and Awards
- Excellent Comprehensive Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2022, 2023, 2024)
- Deng Feng Fund for International Conference Travel, Tsinghua University (2024)
- Outstanding Social Service Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2023)
- Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Sichuan Province (2022)
- ‘Top 10 Undergraduate of 2022’, Sichuan University (Top 0.03% in SCU) (2022)
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (Top 0.2% in China) (2019, 2020)
- 1st Prize in the National College Student Information Security Contest, China Internet Development Foundation (2020)
- Cybersecurity Merit Student Scholarship, Sichuan University (2019)
Education
- 09/2022 - 06/2025(expected), M.Eng. in Software Engineering, Tsinghua University. GPA 3.90/4.0
- 09/2018 - 06/2022, B.Eng. in Cybersecurity, Sichuan University. GPA 3.96/4.0, Ranked 1/172
- 07/2019, Summer Session in EECS, University of California, Berkeley.
Academic Service
- Teaching Assistant: Model-driven Software Development@Tsinghua, Fall 2024, Course No.44100662 (for ~80 undergraduates)
- Journal Reviewer: Information Processing & Management
- Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC): CCS’23, ISSTA’24
- External Reviewer: EMSOFT(2022,2024), ICSE(2024,2025), FSE(2024,2025), ISSTA(2024,2025)
Webpage Last Updated: Jan 15, 2025
