Director, Software and System Security Lab (SSS Lab)
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
    Office: CI332
    Phone: 361-825-2448
    Email: yongzhi.wang@tamucc.edu & yongzhiwang@icloud.com
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Short Bio

Hello, I am the Director of Software and System Security (SSS) Lab and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). Prior to joining TAMUCC, I was an associate professor at Park University. I received my Ph.D. degree from the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University and received my M.S. and B.E. degrees in computer science at Xidian University.

Research Interests

My research interests include software security, system security, cloud computing, edge computing. I have published over 40 peer-reviewed research articles in premium journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Computers(TC), INFOCOM, TIFS, Computers & Security, etc. My recent research interests include confidential computing, database, federated learning, etc.

Recruiting

I am currently recuiting computer science PhD students, who will be fully-funded. If you are self-motivated, hard-working, and want to pursue something big, please reach out.

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

[1]       Yongzhi Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Wu and Y. Shen, "Enhancing Leakage Prevention for MapReduce," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 17, pp. 1558-1572, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3166641.

[2]       Yongzhi Wang, Y. Zou, Y. Shen and Y. Liu, "CFHider: Protecting Control Flow Confidentiality with Intel SGX" in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. , no. 01, pp. 1-1, 5555. doi: 10.1109/TC.2021.3122903

[3]       Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Cuicui Su, Jiawen Ma, Lingtong Liu, Xuewen Dong, “CryptSQLite: SQLite with High Data Security” in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 666-678, 1 May 2020.

[4]       Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen and Xiaohong Jiang, "Practical Verifiable Computation–A MapReduce Case Study," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1376-1391, June 2018.

[5]       Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Hua Wang, Jinli Cao, Xiaohong Jiang, MtMR: Ensuring MapReduce Computation Integrity with Merkle Tree-based Verifications. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. Vol. 4, No. 3, pp 418-431, Sep, 2018

[6]       Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Xiaopeng Jiao, Tao Zhang, Xu Si, Ahmed Salem, Jia Liu, Exploiting Content Delivery Networks for Covert Channel Communications, Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, 2017, Vol. 99:pp 84-92.

[7]       Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei, Shaolei Ren, Yulong Shen, Toward integrity assurance of outsourced computing - a game theoretic perspective, Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2016, 55:87-100.

[8]       Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei. “Towards Protecting Control Flow Confidentiality on Cloud Based Computation.” Elsevier Journal of Computers and Security (Computers & Security). Vol. 52, pp.106-127, July 2015. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2015.04.005.

Conference Publications (Full Papers)

[9]       Yongzhi Wang, Wen-Jung Hsin, Manish Lamsal, EdGENI: Making GENI User-Friendly for General Computer Education, The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2022), March 2 - March 5, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

[10]    Ke Cheng, Liangmin Wang, Yulong Shen, Yangyang Liu, Yongzhi Wang, Lele Zheng, A Lightweight Auction Framework for Spectrum Allocation with Strong Security Guarantees, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’20), July 6- July 9. 2020, Virtual Conference (Due to COVID-19).

[11]    Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Cuicui Su, Ke Cheng, Yibo Yang, Anter Faree, and Yao Liu, “CFHider: Control Flow Obfuscation with Intel SGX”, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’19), Apr 29- May 2. 2019, Paris, France.

[12]    Ke Cheng, Yulong Shen, Yongzhi Wang, Liangmin Wang, Xiaohong Jiang, Jian-feng Ma, Cuicui Su, “Strongly Secure and Efficient Range Queries in Cloud Databases under Multiple Keys”, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’19), Apr 29- May 2. 2019, Paris, France.

[13]    Zhu, Feng, Youngtae Yun, Jinpeng Wei, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Yongzhi Wang, Daehyeok Kim, Peng Li, He Xu, and Ruchuan Wang. "A Reflective Covert Channel Attack Anchored on Trusted Web Services." In International Conference on Web Services (ICWS ’18), pp. 84-99. Springer, Cham, 2018.

[14]    Yongzhi Wang, Lingtong Liu, Cuicui Su, Jiawen Ma, Lei Wang, Yibo Yang, Yulong Shen, Guangxia Li, Tao Zhang, Xuewen Dong, "CryptSQLite: Protecting Data Confidentiality of SQLite with Intel SGX", 2017 International Conference on Networking and Network Applications, Oct 16 – Oct 19, 2017, Katmandu, Nepal. (Best paper award)

[15]    Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Yucong Duan, and Wencai Du. "IntegrityMR: Integrity Assurance Framework for Big Data Analytics and Management Applications". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2013) Knowledge Management and Big Data Analytics Workshop, October 6-9, 2013, pages 17-24.

[16]    Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei, and Mudhakar Srivatsa. "Result Integrity Check for MapReduce Computation on Hybrid Clouds". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2013), IEEE Computer Society, Santa Clara, CA, June 27-July 2, 2013, pages 847-854.

[17]    Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei. "VIAF: Verification-based Integrity Assurance Framework for MapReduce". Proceedings of the fourth IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2011), IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC, July 4-9, 2011, pages 300-307.

Conference Publications (Poster Papers)

[18]    Yongzhi Wang, Wen-Jung Hsin, Improving User Publication for GENI-based Cybersecurity Labs, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Technical Symposium (SIGCSE2020), March 11 - March 14, Portland, Oregon, USA. Poster paper.

[19]    Xiaoyu Zhang, Yongzhi Wang, Yu Zou, Reconsidering Leakage Prevention in MapReduce, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’ 20), July 6- July 9. 2020, Virtual Conference (Due to COVID-19), Poster paper.

[20]    Yu Zou, Yongzhi Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Enforcing Control Flow Confidentiality with SGX, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’ 20), July 6- July 9. 2020, Virtual Conference (Due to COVID-19), Poster paper.

[21]    Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Ke Cheng, Yibo Yang, Cuicui Su, and Anter Faree. 2018. Obfuscating program control flow with Intel SGX. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 321-322., Poster Paper.

[22]    Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, “RIA – An Audition-based Method to Protect the Runtime Integrity of MapReduce Applications”, 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2016), Oct 24-28, 2016, Vienna, Austria. Poster Paper.

[23]    Yongzhi Wang, Jinpeng Wei, Mudhakar Srivatsa. "Cross Cloud MapReduce: an Uncheatable MapReduce". The 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2012), San Francisco, CA, May 20-23, 2012. Poster paper.