Yan's Papers

2026

📚 SIGCSE - Open Cybersecurity Education: Five Years of pwn.college [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🐧 SIGCSE - Linux Luminarium [pdf] [text] [bibtex] Best Paper Award

🧩 NDSS - ropbot [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🔁 NDSS - Taveren [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
↩️ NDSS - Decompiling the Synergy [pdf] [text] [bibtex] Distinguished Paper Award

2025

🔀 USENIX Security - System Register Hijacking [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🈴 SIGCSE - SENSAI [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🔎 NDSS - ScamMagnifier [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🗭 AAAI - ScamNet [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2024

👟 USENIX Security - Take a Step Further [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🐯 USENIX Security - TYGR [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
⛵ USENIX Security - SAILR [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🥭 USENIX Security - Mango [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🇻 SP - VarBERT [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🤦 SP - Mistakes [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

📘 SIGCSE - PWN the Learning Curve [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🥋 SIGCSE - Enter the DOJO [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

️🏞️ RAID - From Victims to Defenders [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🤥 IMC - Browser Polygraph [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🫠 ICML - WMDP [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🐶 DIMVA - SandPuppy [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

📛 CODASPY - Nothing Personal [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🤞 CCS - Trust, Because You Can't Verify [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🦺 CCS - FlakJack [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🤿 AsiaCCS - Deep Dive into Client-Side Anti-Phishing [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2023

🪴 USENIX Security - Greenhouse [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

💫 SecureComm - Street Rep [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🧙‍♀️ SP - Toss a Fault to Your Witcher [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🛒 SP - Beyond Phish [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

📻 DSN - Targeted Privacy Attacks (LTE) [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🔥 CCS - RetSpill [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2021

💰 USENIX Security - Having Your Cake and Eating It [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🎣 SP - Crawlphish [pdf] [text] [bibtex] Best Student Paper Award

🥑 NDSS - Favocado [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🐺 HICCS - MuTent [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🪙 Financial Crypto - Bitcoin Mixers [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2019

💇 DIMVA - Bintrimmer [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🥾 CODASPY - Bootkeeper [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🧦 CCS - Matched and Mismatched SOCs [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

💧 ACSAC - Sleak [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2017

👢 USENIX Security - Bootstomp [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🕵️ SP - Your Exploit is Mine [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🐚 Phrack - Cyber Grand Shellphish [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🪡 NDSS - Ramblr [pdf] [text] [bibtex] Distinguished Paper Award

🎓 Dissertation - Building a Base For Cyber Autonomy [pdf] [text] [bibtex] UCSB Computer Science Outstanding Dissertation Award

👑 CSF - How Shall We Play a Game [pdf] [text] [bibtex] 2018 NSA Cybersecurity Paper Award

🤝 CCS - Rise of the HaCRS [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
💎 CCS - DIFUZE [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🕹️ ACSAC - Piston [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2016

🧰 SP - State of the Art of War [pdf] [text] [bibtex] ACSAC 2023 Artifact Impact Award

💱 RAID - Taming Transactions [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🚪 NDSS - Firmalice [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🪛 NDSS - Driller [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2015

🛀 USENIX Security - How the ELF Ruined Christmas [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

📸 PETS - Portrait of a Privacy Invasion [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2014

🎲 SAC - Do You Feel Lucky [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

↔️ RAID - Protecting Web-Based Single Sign-On Protocols [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🕸️ DIMVA - PEXy [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

🏁 3GSE - Ten Years of iCTF [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2013

📽️ USENIX Security - Steal This Movie [pdf] [text] [bibtex]
🔫 USENIX Security - Revolver [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2012

🐑 CCS - Blacksheep [pdf] [text] [bibtex]

2011

🕰️ GSWC - Back to the Future [pdf] [text] [bibtex]