Publications
Invited papers
Ryoan: A Distributed Sandbox for Untrusted Computation on Secret Data [USENIX]
Tyler Hunt, Zhiting Zhu, Yuanzhong Xu, Simon Peter, Emmett Witchel
in USENIX ;login: the USENIX Magazine,
Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2017
Earp: Principled Storage, Sharing, and Protection for Mobile Apps [ACM DL]
Yuanzhong Xu, Tyler Hunt, Youngjin Kwon, Martin Georgiev, Vitaly Shmatikov, Emmett Witchel
in ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Vol. 20, Iss. 3, July 2016
Peer-reviewed papers
Ryoan: A Distributed Sandbox for Untrusted Computation on Secret Data [pdf]
Tyler Hunt, Zhiting Zhu, Yuanzhong Xu, Simon Peter, Emmett Witchel
in The 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI), Savannah, GA, November 2016.
Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award
Sego: Pervasive Trusted Metadata for Efficiently Verified Untrusted System Services [pdf]
Youngjin Kwon, Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Owen S. Hofmann, Yuanzhong Xu, Emmett Witchel
in The 21st International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
(ASPLOS), Atlanta, GA, April 2016.
Earp: Principled Storage, Sharing, and Protection for Mobile Apps [pdf] [slides pdf keynote]
Yuanzhong Xu, Tyler Hunt, Youngjin Kwon, Martin Georgiev, Vitaly Shmatikov, Emmett Witchel
in The 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
(NSDI), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016.
Controlled-Channel Attacks: Deterministic Side Channels for Untrusted Operating Systems [pdf] [slides pdf pptx]
Yuanzhong Xu, Weidong Cui, Marcus Peinado
in The 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(S&P Oakland), San Jose, CA, May 2015.
Maxoid: Transparently Confining Mobile Applications with Custom Views of State [pdf] [slides pdf keynote]
Yuanzhong Xu, Emmett Witchel
in The 10th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems
(EuroSys), Bordeaux, France, April 2015.
Application-Defined Decentralized Access Control [pdf] [slides pdf keynote] [code]
Yuanzhong Xu, Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Michael Z. Lee, Syed Akbar Mehdi, Emmett Witchel
in USENIX Annual Technical Conference
(USENIX ATC), Philadelphia, PA, June 2014.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Machine: Protecting Privacy with Ephemeral Channels [pdf]
Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Suman Jana, Sangman Kim, Mark Silberstein, Yuanzhong Xu, Vitaly Shmatikov, Emmett Witchel
in The 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI), Hollywood, CA, October 2012.
Runner-up for 2013 Privacy Enhancing Technology award: [link]
Lower Bound for Node Buffer Size in Intermittently Connected Wireless Networks
Xinbing Wang, Tuo Yu, Yuanzhong Xu
in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
(TPDS), Volume 24, Issue 4, April 2013.
Fundamental Lower Bound for Node Buffer Size in Intermittently Connected Wireless Networks
Yuanzhong Xu, Xinbing Wang
in The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
(INFOCOM), Shanghai, China, April 2011.