Presenter

Dr. Fengwei Zhang is a tenured faculty with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the COMputer And Systems Security (COMPASS) Lab at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. He came to SUSTech from Wayne State University, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science from 2015 to 2019. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from George Mason University in 2015. His research interests are in the areas of systems security, with a focus on trustworthy execution, hardware-assisted security, transparent malware debugging, transportation security, and plausible deniability encryption. He published over 80 conferences/journal papers, including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, IEEE TIFS, and IEEE TDSC. He has served as Program Committee at top conferences including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, and NDSS. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award in ACSAC 2017. His high-quality work received several NSF Awards in the USA. More info at his homepage: http://fengwei.me