Zao Yang | 阳枣 | 陽棗

About Me

I'm a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Utah, advised by Prof. Stefan Nagy. 

My research interests are software security and system security. Currently, I'm working on automated software testing (fuzzing) and binary analysis. 

Prior to Utah, I obtained my Master's degree from University of Southampton and my Bachelor's from Hainan University.

News

• 06/2024 Our work on decompiler fuzzing was mentioned by Binary Ninja in their blog post.

Research Experience

•  FuTURES³ Lab PhD Student 08/2023 - Present Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Education

• PhD in Computer Science 08/2023 - Present University of Utah, USA

• MSc in Computer Science 09/2021 - 09/2022 University of Southampton, UK

• BEng in Information Security 09/2016 - 06/2020 Hainan University, China

Publication

• Broadening The Solution Space of Feature Selection in Time-interval-based Malware Detection [PDF]

       Zao Yang, BooJoong Kang

       The 4th International Workshop on Data-Driven Security (DDSW 2023) Leuven, Belgium

Teaching Experience

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • CS 4480: Computer Networks (Spring 2024) Instructor: Prof. Ryan Stutsman