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Notes on security research and graduate life.

Living with Otter, my personal AI assistant

AI
Agents
LLM
Productivity
OpenClaw
Last summer, during my internship at Meta, I heard security people saying that fully autonomous AI agents were still some time away. The fundamental security issues had not…
2026.02.25

Review of 2024

Graduate Life
January has flown by in a blink of an eye! While 2025 is already into its second month, it’s lunar new year today, so I decided to write a review of 2024.
2025.01.28

ACM CCS 2024 Reflection

Graduate Life
This is a personal note for the ACM CCS 2024 I made after the event. CCS 2024 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. It was my second time attending CCS, but this time I had…
2025.01.27

Black Hat USA 2024

Research
MTE
BlackHat
From August 5th to 12nd 2024, I attended Black Hat USA 2024 (and Defcon 32) in Las Vegas. I presented my research on Bypassing MTE with a side-channel attack. I returned to…
2024.08.14

A review of 2023: Surprises, Triumphs, and Failures

Graduate Life
It’s the end of 2023, and as I look back on the year, I can only say that it was a year full of research. I remember the days spent in front of the computer, reading papers…
2023.12.31

Series: Graduate School Productivity - Introduction

Graduate Life
Productivity
Time flies in graduate school! Having spent 3.5 years as a PhD student, one thing I’ve learned is that I should be super-efficient in managing my time and energy.
2023.08.24

Hugging (Evil) Face: Security issues in Hugging Face

Research
Hugging Face
### Introduction In recent years, emerging technology in Machine Learning and Large Language Model (LLM) had led to the development of ML/LLM-powered applications. One of…
2023.07.19

Security-hardening ARM64 Linux kernel

Research
Kernel
LLVM
QEMU
In the first year of my Ph.D, I ambitiously began a research on protecting the Linux kernel against data-only attacks. My research especially focused on protecting…
2023.07.09
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