Wenbo Shen

Wenbo Shen

ZJU100 Professor, Zhejiang University

Short Bio

Dr. Wenbo Shen is a ZJU100 Professor at Zhejiang University. His research interests are software and system security, including operating system security, software supply chain security, and container security. He has published over 30 research papers at top-tier academic conferences and won three distinguished paper awards (NDSS 16, AsiaCCS 17, ACSAC 22). His research works on operating system protection have been deployed on hundreds of millions of devices.


Background

  • 2019 - Now, Zhejiang University (China), College of Computer Science and Technology, ZJU100 Professor
  • 2015 - 2019, Samsung Research America (USA), Tech Lead of Kernel Protection (RKP)
  • 2010 - 2015, North Carolina State University (USA), Department of Computer Science, Ph.D
  • 2006 - 2010, Harbin Institute of Technology (China), School of Software Engineering, B.Eng


    • Recent Publications

    [Full list in Publications]

  • A Hybrid Alias Analysis and Its Application to Global Variable Protection in the Linux Kernel
    Guoren Li, Hang Zhang, Jinmeng Zhou, Wenbo Shen, Yulei Sui, Zhiyun Qian
    USENIX Security Symposium. 2023.

  • Demystifying Pointer Authentication on Apple M1
    Zechao Cai, Jiaxun Zhu, Wenbo Shen, Yutian Yang, Rui Chang, Yu Wang, Jinku Li, Kui Ren
    USENIX Security Symposium. 2023.

  • Attacks are Forwarded: Breaking the Isolation of MicroVM-based Containers Through Operation Forwarding
    Jietao Xiao, Nanzi Yang, Wenbo Shen, Jinku Li, Xin Guo, Zhiqiang Dong, Fei Xie, Jianfeng Ma
    USENIX Security Symposium. 2023.

  • Ambush from All Sides: Understanding Security Threats in Open-Source Software CI/CD Pipelines
    Ziyue Pan, Wenbo Shen, Xingkai Wang, Yutian Yang, Rui Chang, Yao Liu, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Kui Ren
    Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 2023

  • VDom: Fast and Unlimited Virtual Domains on Multiple Architectures
    Ziqi Yuan, Siyu Hong, Rui Chang, Yajin Zhou, Wenbo Shen, Kui Ren
    Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). 2023.

  • Making Memory Account Accountable: Analyzing and Detecting Memory Missing-account bugs for Container Platforms
    Yutian Yang, Wenbo Shen, Xun Xie, Kangjie Lu, Mingsen Wang, Tianyu Zhou, Chenggang Qin, Wang Yu, Kui Ren
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). 2022.

  • Automatic Permission Check Analysis for Linux Kernel
    Jinmeng Zhou, Tong Zhang, Wenbo Shen, Dongyoon Lee, Changhee Jung, Ahmed Azab, Ruowen Wang, Peng Ning, Kui Ren
    Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 2022

  • RegVault: Hardware Assisted Selective Data Randomization for Operating System Kernels
    Jinyan Xu, Haoran Lin, Ziqi Yuan, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Rui Chang, Lei Wu, Kui Ren
    ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC). 2022.


    • Awards

  • Distinguished Paper Award by Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2022
  • Distinguished Paper Award by ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), ACM SIGSAC, 2017.
  • Distinguished Paper Award by Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2016.