I am a master student at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, advised by Prof. Yu Jiang. I am proud to be a member of Software System Security Assurance Group - WingTecher Lab. Previously, 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 (ICCCN’21, IP&M 2022, FSE’25-InSubmission), and defense (EMSOFT’22, ISSTA’25-InSubmission). 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.

I am applying to Ph.D. programs for 2025 Fall, with a focus on Security / SE. I would appreciate any information you can provide!

News

  • 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

ICSE'24
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An Empirical Study of Data Disruption by Ransomware Attacks

Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Shanshan Li, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang

The 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’24)

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Acceptance Rate: 234/1051=22.3%

Oakland'23
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Limits of I/O Based Ransomware Detection: An Imitation Based Attack

Chijin Zhou, Lihua Guo, Yiwei Hou, Zhenya Ma, Quan Zhang, Mingzhe Wang, Zhe Liu, Yu Jiang

The 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P / Oakland’23)

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Acceptance Rate: 195/1147=17.0%

EMSOFT'22
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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)

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IP&M 59(5)
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Identification of Chinese Dark Jargons in Telegram Underground Markets Using Context-oriented and Linguistic Features

Yiwei Hou, Hailin Wang, Haizhou Wang

Information Processing and Management (IP&M 2022 59(5))

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ICCCN'21
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A Novel Framework of Identifying Chinese Jargons for Telegram Underground Markets

Hailin Wang, Yiwei Hou, Haizhou Wang

The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’21)

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Honors and Awards

  • Deng Feng Fund for International Conference Travel, Tsinghua University (2024)
  • Excellent Comprehensive Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2022, 2023, 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.

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: Dec 3, 2024

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