About Me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Information Science & Technology (IST) department of George Mason University (GMU), under the supervision of Dr. Kun Sun. Before that, I obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering in 2016 and a Master of Engineering in Computer Application Technology in 2019 from Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NJUPT). My research interests focus on Software Security and Machine Learning. I'm interested in combining static analysis and deep learning techniques on program analysis tasks, such as automated program repair (source code) and binary reversing analysis (binary code).

Publication

1. Xu He, Shu Wang, Pengbin Feng, Xinda Wang, Shiyu Sun, Qi Li, Kun Sun. "BinGo: Identifying Security Patches in Binary Code with Graph Representation Learning." ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2024) [Paper]

2. Yunlong Xing, Shu Wang, Shiyu Sun, Xu He, Kun Sun, Qi Li. "What IF Is Not Enough? Fixing Null Pointer Dereference With Contextual Check." USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2024). [Paper]

3. Xu He, Shu Wang, Yunlong Xing, Pengbin Feng, Haining Wang, Qi Li, Songqing Chen, and Kun Sun. "BinProv: Binary Code Provenance Identification without Disassembly." The 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID 2022), Limassol, Cyprus on 26-28 October 2022. [Paper]

4. Songsong Liu, Pengbin Feng, Jiahao Cao, Xu He, Tommy Chin, Kun Sun, and Qi Li. "Consistency is All I Ask: Attacks and Countermeasures on the Network Context of Distributed Honeypots." The 19th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2022), Cagliari, Italy June 29 – July 1, 2022. [Paper]

5. Xu He, Jiahao Cao, Shu Wang, Kun Sun, Lisong Xu, and Qi Li. "Auter: Automatically Tuning Multi-layer Network Buffers in Long-Distance Shadowsocks Networks". IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022), London, England, May 3-5, 2022. [Paper]

6. Shengye Wan, Mingshen Sun, Kun Sun, Ning Zhang, and Xu He. "RusTEE: Developing Memory-Safe ARM TrustZone Applications". 2020 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020), Austin, Texas, USA, December 7-11, 2020. [Paper]

7. Shu Wang, Jiahao Cao, Xu He, Kun Sun, and Qi Li, "When the Differences in Frequency Domain are Compensated: Understanding and Defeating Modulated Replay Attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition," 2020 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020), Orlando, USA, November 9-13, 2020.  [Paper]

8. Zhiqiang Zou, Xu He, A-xing Zhu. "An Automatic Annotation Method for Discovering Semantic Information of Geographical Locations from Location-Based Social Networks". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 29 October 2019. [Paper]

9. Zhiqiang Zou, Junjie Xiong, Xu He, Haihong Dai. “NUPT ST-data Miner An Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Visualization System”. ICISA’2018. Hong Kong. June 2018. [Paper]

10. Zhiqiang Zou, Xu He, Xingyu Xie, Qunying Huang. “Enhancing the Impression on Cities: Mining Relations of Attractions with Geo-tagged Photos”. CBDCom’2018. GuangZhou, China. October 2018. [Paper]

11. Zhiqiang Zou, Xu He, Yinxia Wang, Jiagao Wu. “Sparse Representation of Sensor Network Signals Based on the K-SVD Algorithm”. MSWiM’2018. Montreal, Canada. November 2018. [Paper]

Work Experience

• Summer Security R&D Intern @ NIO USA. San Jose, CA (2022, 2023), working with Dr. Yueqiang Cheng, Dr. Ping Chen, and Robin ZhongBing Luo.

Awards

• • Doctoral Research Scholarship, GMU, Jun. 2023

  • Student Grant，Infocom 2022，Apr. 2022

  • First Prize, The 2nd “3S” National Internet of Things Technology and Application Competition, May. 2016

  • Silver Graduation Medal, (5/73), NJUPT, Jun. 2016

  • Outstanding Graduate, (80/about 5050), NJUPT, Jun. 2016

  • Honorable Mention, American Mathematical Contest In Modeling, COMAP, Feb. 2015