> I'm a CS PhD student at Northwestern.

> I love hacking techniques,  and my research is developing new attacks for real-world target. I'm also interested in AI for hacking.

> Awards and Fundings:

• Google PhD Fellowship, $170K

• OpenAI Cybersecurity Award, $20K

• DARPA AIxCC Finalist Award, top 7 worldwide, $2M

• DARPA AIxCC Proposal Award (small business), $1M

• CSAW ARC technical impact award.

• DEF CON CTF finalist, twice (2021,2022).

> Selected Papers (those I think interesting):

• Cross Container Attacks: The Bewildered {eBPF} on Clouds, co-first author, USENIX 2023. Integrated into eBPF Security Threat Model by Linux Foundation.

• Take a step further: understanding page spray in linux kernel exploitation, first author, USENIX 2024. Novel exploitation award in Google kCTF.

• 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)

• 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.