About me

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton, under the supervision of Prof. Yifan Zhang. During my Ph.D. studies, I also collaborated on a project with Prof. Kanad Ghose.

My current research interests lie in mobile systems, embedded systems, operating systems and virtualization, with a special emphasis on security. I am particularly passionate about designing and implementing robust security mechanisms using virtulization techniques for resource-constrained mobile environments. My goal is to fortify these mobile systems against a broad spectrum of attackes.

Publications

Meunik: Rethinking Virtual Machine Memory Resource Management for Unikernel-based VMs

Yongshu Bai, Xin Zhang and Yifan Zhang

ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) [ ]

Control flow and pointer integrity enforcement in a secure tagged architecture

Gollapudi, R.T., Yuksek, G., Demicco, D., Cole, M., Kothari, G., Kulkarni, R., Zhang, X., Ghose, K., Prakash, A. and Umrigar, Z.

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023 [ BibTex | PDF ]

Achieving resource-centric access control for web-app interactions on android

Xin Zhang, and Yifan Zhang

High-Confidence Computing 2022 [ ]

ReACt: A Resource-centric Access Control System for Web-app Interactions on Android

Xin Zhang and Yifan Zhang

The ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2021 [ BibTex | PDF ]

Edgecourier: an edge-hosted personal service for low-bandwidth document synchronization in mobile cloud storage services

Pengzhan Hao, Yongshu Bai, Xin Zhang, and Yifan Zhang

ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2017 [ BibTex | PDF ]

Poster: Securing Device Inputs for Smartphones Using Hypervisor Based Approach

Xin Zhang, Yongshu Bai, Pengzhan Hao, and Yifan Zhang

ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2017 [ BibTex ]

Poster: EPS: Edge-hosted Personal Services for Mobile Users

Pengzhan Hao, Yongshu Bai, Xin Zhang, and Yifan Zhang

ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2017 [ BibTex ]

Improving cloud storage usage experience for mobile applications

Yongshu Bai, Xin Zhang, and Yifan Zhang

ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys) 2016 [ BibTex | PDF ]