Zheng Zhong Ph.D. student Department of Computer Science Purdue University Email: zhong183@purdue.edu

About Me

I am a PhD student at Purdue CS, advised by Prof. Dave Tian. I also work closely with Prof. Arslan Khan. Before joining Purdue, I obtained my MPhil degree at CUHK CSE in 2020, working with Prof. Ming-Chang Yang and Prof. James Cheng. I received my BEng degree at Sun Yat-sen University in 2018.

My research focuses on binary program analysis and hardening, particularly for software with rich mathematical semantics, including compiled deep neural network programs and control firmware for embedded systems.

Publications

Conference Papers

• Hardening Deep Neural Network Binaries against Reverse Engineering Attacks
  Zheng Zhong, Ruoyu Wu, Junpeng Wan, Muqi Zou, and Dave (Jing) Tian.
  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'25).
  

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• Yugong: Geo-Distributed Data and Job Placement at Scale
  Yuzhen Huang, Yingjie Shi, Zheng Zhong, Yihui Feng, James Cheng, Jiwei Li, Haochuan Fan, Chao Li, Tao Guan, and Jingren Zhou.
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 12, Number 12, 2019 (VLDB'19).
  

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Services

Reviewer

• IEEE TIFS '24

External Reviewer

• IEEE S&P '25 '26

Experience

Engineering Intern

• Alibaba Cloud, Beijing
  Dec 2018 – May 2019
  
  Mentor: Yihui Feng
  Worked on improving the performance of some computing platforms at Alibaba Cloud.

Teaching Assistant

Purdue CS536: Data Communication and Computer Networks
Fall 2024


Purdue CS240: Programming in C
Spring 2023


Purdue CS580: Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Implementation
Fall 2022


CUHK CSCI1020: Hands-on Introduction to C++
Spring 2020