> I'm a CS PhD student at Northwestern, also visiting PhD student at MIT CSAIL, and I work on System Security and Hardware Security, especially those critical components in AI Infrastructure. I obtain my bachelor's degree in Sichuan University, China, 2023.

> I love hacking techniques,  my research is attacking real-world targets.

> Awards and Fundings:

• Google PhD Fellowship

• OpenAI Cybersecurity Award

• DARPA AIxCC Finalist Award and Proposal Award

• DEF CON CTF finalist

> Selected Papers (those I think interesting):

• Breaking the Bulkhead: Demystifying Cross-Namespace Reference Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Operators

corresponding author & second author, NDSS 2026. 

Hacked multiple AI infra products, e.g., NVIDIA KAI-scheduler, k8sGPT and etc.

• PatchAgent: A Practical Program Repair Agent Mimicking Human Expertise

second author, USENIX 2025. 

CSAW Applied Research Competition, Winners in Technical Impact (2 out of 189)

DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), Finalist Award (top 7 worldwide)

• Take a step further: understanding page spray in linux kernel exploitation

first author, USENIX 2024. 

Page spray attack received novel exploitation award in Google kCTF; Pwned Pixel 6 and Galaxy S22.

• Cross Container Attacks: The Bewildered {eBPF} on Clouds

co-first author, USENIX 2023. 

Integrated into eBPF Security Threat Model by Linux Foundation

> Internship:

• 2021, work on vulnerability exploitation at Tencent Xuanwu Lab