Hongyi LU (jwnhy) is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at HKUST, jointly supervised by Professor Shuai Wang and Professor Fengwei Zhang. His research focuses on the security of low-level system components, such as OS, GPU, and firmware.

Publications

^ indicates equal contribution; * indicates corresponding author. I highlighted my name in my 1st-authored works.

• CuSafe: Capturing Memory Corruption on NVIDIA GPUs [paper]
  Hongyi Lu, Fengwei Zhang*, Zhenkai Zhang, Shuai Wang, Yanan Guo*. USENIX Security 2026 (CCF-A, BIG4)

• Towards Secure BPF Kernel Extension with Hardware-enhanced Memory Isolation
  Lijian Huang^, Hongyi Lu^, Shuai Wang*, Fengwei Zhang*. TDSC (CCF-A)

• Hardware-assisted Memory Isolation [paper]
  Hongyi Lu. CCS 2025 (PhD Symposium)

• MOLE: Breaking GPU TEE with GPU-Embedded MCU [paper] [site]
  Hongyi Lu^, Yunjie Deng^, Sukarno Mertoguno, Shuai Wang*, Fengwei Zhang*. CCS 2025 (CCF-A, BIG4)

• MOAT: Towards Safe BPF Kernel Extension [paper] [code]
  Hongyi Lu, Shuai Wang*, Yechang Wu, Wanning He, Fengwei Zhang*. USENIX Security 2024 (CCF-A, BIG4)

• DTD: Comprehensive and Scalable Testing for Debuggers [paper] [code]
  Hongyi Lu, Zhibo Liu*, Shuai Wang, and Fengwei Zhang*. FSE 2024 (CCF-A)

• RingGuard: Guard io_uring with eBPF [paper]
  Wanning He^, Hongyi Lu^, Fengwei Zhang*, and Shuai Wang. SIGCOMM eBPF 2023

• Raven: A Novel Kernel Debugging Tool on RISC-V [paper] [code]
  Hongyi Lu and Fengwei Zhang*. DAC 2022 (CCF-A)

• Revisiting BadUSB with Type-C [paper] [CVE-2021-22325]
  Hongyi Lu^, Yechang Wu^, Shuqing Li^, You Lin, Chaozu Zhang, Fengwei Zhang*. WOOT 2021

• A Novel Memory Management for RISC-V Enclaves [paper] [code]
  Haonan Li, Weijie Huang, Mingde Ren, Hongyi Lu, Zhenyu Ning, Heming Cui, and Fengwei Zhang*. HASP 2021

Academic Services

• Reviewer: TIFS, TDSC
• External Reviewer: USENIX Security 2023, S&P 2023, PoPET 2023, CCS 2023, CCS 2022

Awards

• CCS 2025 Student Grant Award
• USENIX 2024 Student Grant Award
• SUSTech Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant Experience

• CS102A Introduction to Computer Programming (SUSTech)
• CS307 Principles of Database Systems (SUSTech)
• CS303 Artificial Intelligence (SUSTech)
• MA305 Numerical Analysis (SUSTech)

• MA113 Linear Algebra II (SUSTech)

• COMP4632 Practicing Cybersecurity: Attacks and Counter-measures (HKUST)
• COMP3632 Principles of Cybersecurity (HKUST)

Reject/Accept Timeline

The following are the paper submission timelines; these papers are rejected at least once.

Community Contribution

• A Video to ASCII Player (for fun)
• Software Foundation Translator
• LLVM Contributor [bugfix]

Friends

• Shuqing Li, Dong Chen, Weijie Huang, Yifan Wu, Haonan Li, Zhibo Liu, Yechang Wu, Chuan Yan, Weipeng Jiang, Yunjie Deng.
• NekoNull