Shuai Wang is an Assistant Professor at CSE, HKUST since 2019. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the AST lab at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University, and B.S. from Peking University.

I belong to both the Cybersecurity group and the Software Engineering and Programming Languages group at HKUST.

My research focuses on Computer Security and Software Engineering.

Teaching

• COMP6613B: Topics in Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2020)
• COMP3632: Principles of Cybersecurity (Fall 2019)
• COMP4971A: Independent Work on Software Fuzz Testing (Fall 2019)

Current Team Members

Ph.D. Students

• Wei Chen
• Zhibo Liu
• Huaijin Wang

MPhil Students

• Lung Kun Hung
• Wong Wai Kin

Former Students

• Reiff Loris (UG @ ETH Zurich, co-advised with Prof. Zhendong Su). Thesis: Context-Aware Obfuscation: A Step Towards Defeating Adversary Symbolic Analysis. Continued Masters study @ ETH Zurich.
• Nguyen Andy (UG @ ETH Zurich, co-advised with Prof. Zhendong Su). Thesis: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Real-World Software with Fuzz Testing. Information Security Engineer @ Google.

Publications

• Detecting Nondeterministic Payment Bugs in Ethereum Smart Contracts. Shuai Wang, Chengyu Zhang, and Zhendong Su. In Proceedings of SPLASH/OOPSLA (OOPSLA '19), 2019.
• Identifying Cache-Based Side Channels through Secret-Augmented Abstract Interpretation. Shuai Wang, Yuyan Bao, Xiao Liu, Pei Wang, Danfeng Zhang, and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '19), 2019. [Extended Version]
• Automatic Grading of Programming Assignments: A Formal Semantics Based Approach. Xiao Liu, Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '19), SEET Track, 2019.
• Large-Scale Third-party Library Detection in Android Markets. Menghao Li, Pei Wang, Wei Wang, Shuai Wang, Dinghao Wu, Jian Liu, Rui Xue, Wei Huo and Wei Zou. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018.
• Software Protection on the Go: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Mobile App Obfuscation. Pei Wang, Qinkun Bao, Li Wang, Shuai Wang, Zhaofeng Chen, Tao Wei and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '18), 2018.
• RedDroid: Android Application Redundancy Customization Based on Static Analysis. Yufei Jiang, Qinkun Bao, Shuai Wang, Xiao Liu and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE '18), 2018.
• Binary Code Retrofitting and Hardening Using SGX. Shuai Wang, Wenhao Wang, Qinkun Bao, Pei Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation (FEAST '17), co-located with CCS 2017, 2017.
• In-Memory Fuzzing for Binary Code Similarity Analysis. Shuai Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '17), 2017.
• Turing Obfuscation. Yan Wang, Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '17), 2017.
• Lambda Obfuscation. Pengwei Lan, Pei Wang, Shuai Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '17), 2017.
• Composite Software Diversification. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME '17), 2017.
• Semantics-Aware Machine Learning for Function Recognition in Binary Code. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME '17), 2017.
• CacheD: Identifying Cache-Based Timing Channels in Production Software. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, Xiao Liu, Danfeng Zhang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17), 2017.
• LibD: Scalable and Precise Third-party Library Detection in Android Markets. Menghao Li, Wei Wang, Pei Wang, Shuai Wang, Dinghao Wu, Jian Liu, Rui Xue, and Wei Huo. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '17), 2017.
• From Physical to Cyber: Escalating Protection for Personalized Auto Insurance. Le Guan, Jun Xu, Shuai Wang, Xinyu Xing, Lin Lin, Heqing Huang, Peng Liu, Wenke Lee. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '16), 2016.
• Uroboros: Instrumenting Stripped Binaries with Static Reassembling. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER '16), 2016.
• Translingual Obfuscation. Pei Wang, Shuai Wang, Jiang Ming, Yufei Jiang, Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P '16), 2016. [Extended Version]
• Reassembleable Disassembling. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, and Dinghao Wu. In Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '15), 2015. [Code Release]