Zhiyong Shan

Zhiyong Shan

Zhiyong Shan

Associate Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Software Engineering Certificate

School of Computing · College of Engineering

Jabara Hall 237
Main Campus

Office hours

9:30 am to 10:30 am Monday and Wednesday

Overview

Zhiyong Shan is an associate professor in the School of Computing and the director of Software Analysis & Intelligence Laboratory.

Areas of Research Interest

Research Interests

  • Program Analysis
  • Mobile Phone Security
  • Virtual Machine

Areas of Teaching Interest

  • Jan 2019-Now, Introduction to Software Engineering
  • Aug 2017-Dec 2018, Operating System 
  • Aug 2017-Now, Software Analytics
  • Aug 2016-Now, Advanced Software Engineering
  • May 2016-June 2016, Advanced Android Application Programing
  • Jan 2016-May 2016, Advanced Computer Network and Security
  • Aug 2015-Dec 2015, Advanced Operating System

Publications

Selected Papers

  1. Preethi Santhanam, Hoang Dang, Zhiyong Shan, and Iulian Neamtiu. Scraping sticky leftovers: App user information left on servers after account deletion. In 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2022).
  2. Zhiyong Shan, Raina Samuel and Iulian Neamtiu. Device Administrator Use and Abuse in Android: Detection and Characterization. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2019). ACM, Oct 21-25, Los Cabos, Mexico, pp. 1-16.
  3. Zhiyong Shan, Iulian Neamtiu, Raina Samuel, Self-Hiding Behavior in Android Apps: Detection and Characterization, 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018).
  4. Zhiyong Shan, Tanzirul Azim, Iulian Neamtiu. Finding Resume and Restart Errors in Android Applications. ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA 2016), November 2016.
  5. Jin, Xinxin, Soyeon Park, Tianwei Sheng, Rishan Chen, Zhiyong Shan, and Yuanyuan Zhou. “FTXen: Making hypervisor resilient to hardware faults on relaxed cores.” In 2015 IEEE 21st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’15), pp. 451-462. IEEE, 2015.
  6. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, Tzi-cker Chiueh: Shuttle: Facilitating Inter-Application Interactions for OS-Level Virtualization. IEEE Trans. Computers 63(5): 1220-1233 (2014)
  7. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang: Growing Grapes in Your Computer to Defend Against Malware. IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security 9(2): 196-207 (2014)
  8. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, Tzi-cker Chiueh: Malware Clearance for Secure Commitment of OS-Level Virtual Machines. IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing. 10(2): 70-83 (2013)
  9. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, Tzi-cker Chiueh: Enforcing Mandatory Access Control in Commodity OS to Disable Malware. IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing 9(4): 541-555 (2012)
  10. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Xiaofeng Meng: Facilitating inter-application interactions for OS-level virtualization. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Annual International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE’12), 75-86
  11. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, Tzi-cker Chiueh, and Xiaofeng Meng. “Safe side effects commitment for OS-level virtualization.” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Autonomic computing (ICAC’11), pp. 111-120. ACM, 2011.
  12. Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang, and Tzi-cker Chiueh. 2011. Tracer: enforcing mandatory access control in commodity OS with the support of light-weight intrusion detection and tracing. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 135-144. (full paper acceptance rate 16%)

Books

  1. Zhiyong Shan, Wenchang Shi. Research in Access Control of Operating Systems. Science Press, Beijing, China, Mar 2009.
  2. Zhiyong Shan, Zhiqun Guo, E-Commerce Security and Management, China Renmin University Press, Beijing, China, May 2010.

Professional Experience

  • Aug 2017-Dec 2018, Operating System (Wichita State University).
  • Aug 2017-Dec 2018, Software Analytics (Wichita State University).
  • Aug 2016-Dec 2016, Advanced Software Engineering (University of Central Missouri)
  • May 2016-June 2016, Advanced Android Application Programing (University of Central Missouri)
  • Jan 2016-May 2016, Advanced Computer Network and Security (University of Central Missouri)
  • Aug 2015-Dec 2015, Advanced Operating System (University of Central Missouri)

Grants

NSF SaTC: CORE: Small: Detecting Personal Information Abuse in Mobile Apps and Their Backend Servers

NSF SaTC: CORE: Small: Automated Dynamic Analysis for Smart Device Malware Hiding Mechanisms

Additional Information

Ph.D. Students

  • Hoang Dang 
  • Preethi Santhanam

Master’s Students

  • Anusha Konduru
  • Ameya Jaykumar Jadhav

Undergraduate Students

  • Luke Baird
  • Seth Allen Rodgers