Shengjie (John) Xu | 徐晟杰 PhD student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto Email: shengjie.xu@mail.utoronto.ca

Biography

I'm a PhD student at University of Toronto since 2020, under the supervision of Professor David Lie. I get my bachelor and master from the same place.

My research interest includes computer security, program analysis, compiler techniques, and computer hardware.

Publications

• Lianying Zhao, He Shuang, Shengjie Xu, Wei Huang, Rongzhen Cui, Pushkar Bettadpur and David Lie. "A Survey of Hardware Improvements to Secure Program Execution". In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024. (Published version available here)
• Shengjie Xu, Eric Liu, Wei Huang, and David Lie. "MIFP: Selective Fat-Pointer Bounds Compression for Accurate Bounds Checking". In Proceedings of The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2023), October 2023.
• Eric Liu, Shengjie Xu, and David Lie. "FLUX: Finding Bugs with LLVM IR Based Unit Test Crossovers". In Proceedings of The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), September 2023.
  
• Wei Huang, Shengjie Xu, Yueqiang Cheng, and David Lie. "Aion Attacks: Exposing Software Timer in Trusted Execution Environment". In Proceedings of The 18th Conference on Detection of Intrusion and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2021), July 2021. (Best Paper Award)
• Shengjie Xu, Wei Huang, and David Lie. 2021. "In-Fat Pointer: Hardware-Assisted Tagged-Pointer Spatial Memory Safety Defense with Subobject Granularity Protection". In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2021), April 2021.

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