Xi Tan

CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab)
Davis Hall 309, Buffalo, NY 14260

I'm currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo working under the guidance of Prof. Ziming Zhao at the CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab).

Research interests:

  • (Embedded) System Security
  • Software Security
  • Program Analysis
  • Vulnerability Discovery

    • News

    Dec 12, 2023

    [Award] Xi won the 2nd place of Russell L. Agrusa CSE Student Innovation Competition!

    Nov 15, 2023

    [Paper] New paper entitled "Is the Canary Dead? On the Effectiveness of Stack Canaries on Microcontroller Systems" will appear in SAC'24!

    Aug 10, 2023

    [Paper] New paper entitled "SHERLOC: Secure and Holistic Control-Flow Violation Detection on Embedded Systems" will appear in CCS'23! Check out the open-source repo at [here]!

    Feb 27, 2023

    [Paper] New paper entitled "Return-to-Non-Secure Vulnerabilities on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone: Attack and Defense" will appear in DAC'23! Check out our open-source repo at [here]!

    Apr 26, 2023

    [CTF] Team Cacti (Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Xi Tan, Md Armanuzzaman, Trevor Schupbach, Safayat Bin Hakim, Sagar Mohan, and Hiu Laam Chau) advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2023! Check out our open-source repo at [here]!

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