Dr. Jinpeng Wei ()

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I lead the Systems Security Lab and I am affiliated with the Cyber Defense & Network Assurability (CyberDNA) Center.

Education:

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

• M.Eng., Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

• B.S., Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

News:

September 1, 2023: Our paper "symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security!

March 4, 2023: I am honored to join the Program Committee of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2023)!

September 28, 2022: I am honored to take the role as a Program Committee Chair of the 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2023)!

August 12, 2022: I am honored to serve the 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022) as a Student Conferenceship Coordinator!

February 14, 2022: Our paper "Coordinating Fast Concurrency Adapting with Autoscaling for SLO-Oriented Web Applications" has been published at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems!

September 1, 2021: Our paper "SODA: A System for Cyber Deception Orchestration and Automation" has been accepted by the 37th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2021)!

August 16, 2021: Our paper "CHIMERA: Autonomous Planning and Orchestration for Malware Deception" has been accepted by IEEE CNS 2021!

January 1, 2021: I am chairing the "Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems" track of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2021). I look forward to your paper submission!

March 26, 2020: Our paper "DodgeTron: Towards Autonomous Cyber Deception Using Dynamic Hybrid Analysis of Malware" has been accepted by IEEE CNS 2020!

January 20, 2020: Our paper "Mitigating Large Response Time Fluctuations through Fast Concurrency Adapting in the Cloud" has been accepted by IPDPS 2020!

November 20, 2019: Our paper "ShadowMove: A Stealthy Lateral Movement Strategy" has been accepted by USENIX Security Symposium 2020!

October 2, 2019: Our article "Autonomous Cyber Deception Based on Malware Analytics" has been included in the Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent (AICA) Reference Architecture, Release 2.0!

June 23, 2019: Our paper "Binary-Centric Defense of Production Operating Systems against Kernel Queue Injection Attacks" has been accepted by Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques (formerly Journal in Computer Virology).

May 12, 2019: [New Grant] We just started a project entitled "Active Cyber Deception against Malware," which is sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR).

April 22, 2019: I am the PC Co-Chair of the Workshop on Data Analytics and User Behavior (DARB 2019), co-located with IEEE IRI 2019. The submission deadline is May 18. I look forward to your contribution!

March 29, 2019: Our paper "Tail Amplification in n-Tier Systems: A Study of Transient Cross-Resource Contention Attacks" has been accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2019.

February 22, 2019: I am the PC Chair of the 2019 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2019). I hope to see you in San Diego, CA in June.

January 10, 2019: Our book "Autonomous Cyber Deception: Reasoning, Adaptive Planning, and Evaluation of HoneyThings" has been published by Springer. Check it out here.

February 14, 2018: We gave a presentation and a 2-hour tutorial of Threat Hunting Labs at the 2018 Cyber Hunting and Threat Analytics Faculty Development Workshop, Manassas, VA.

January 29-30, 2018: We hosted the 2018 ARO Workshop on HoneyThings: Autonomous and Resilient Cyber Deception, on UNC Charlotte campus.

November 9, 2017: We presented our work at the 2017 CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, Dayton OH. Download our presentation.

July 28, 2017: I have two new RA positions available. Both are fully-supported. If you are interested, please directly contact me with your resume.

April 6, 2017: The fully-supported RA position has been filled. If you are interested in positions that may open up in the near future, please directly contact me with your resume.

April 4, 2017: I am on the program committee of the third IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2017). The paper submission deadline is May 20, 2017.

March 12, 2017: I have only one position left for fully-supported Ph.D. students. If you are interested, please directly contact me with your resume.

January 12, 2017: I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students to work on cyber security related projects. If you are interested, please directly contact me.

April 10, 2016: Our paper "IntegrityMR: Exploring Result Integrity Assurance Solutions for Big Data Computing Applications" is published at International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing.

December 10, 2015: I served as a panelist at ACSAC 2015. The topic of today's panel was: "Cyber Experimentation of the Future (CEF): Catalyzing a New Generation of Experimental Cybersecurity Research." The other panelists were Terry Benzel, Trent Jaeger, and Lee Rossey, and the moderator was David Balenson. More details.

December 10, 2015: I presented our paper "MOSE: Live Migration Based On-the-Fly Software Emulation" at ACSAC 2015.

August 3, 2015: My Ph.D. student Yongzhi Wang officially graduated today, and he will join Xidian University as an Assistant Professor. Kudos to Yongzhi!

Teaching:

• ITIS 6330/8330: Malware Analysis (Spring 2021).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2021).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Fall 2020).
• ITIS 6330/8330: Malware Analysis (Spring 2020).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2020).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Fall 2019).
• ITIS 6330/8330: Malware Analysis (Spring 2019).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2019).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Fall 2018).
• ITIS 6010/8010: Topics in Malware Analysis (Spring 2018).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Spring 2018).
• ITIS 6200/8200: Principles of Information Security & Privacy (Fall 2017).
• ITIS 6010/8010: Topics in Systems Security and Malware Analysis (Spring 2017).
• ITIS 3200: Introduction to Information Security and Privacy (Fall 2016)
• COP-5614: Operating Systems (Spring 2016).
• CEN-5079: Secure Application Programming (Spring 2016).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Fall 2015).
• CIS-5373: Systems Security (Spring 2015).
• COP-5614: Operating Systems (Spring 2015).
• CIS-5373: Systems Security (online, Fall 2014).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Fall 2014).
• CIS-5372: Fundamentals of Computer Security (Fall 2013).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Fall 2013).
• CNT-4403: Computer and Network Security (Spring 2013).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Fall 2012).
• CIS-5373: Systems Security (Fall 2012).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Spring 2012).
• COP-5614: Operating Systems (Spring 2012).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Fall 2011).
• COP-4610: Operating Systems Principles (Spring 2011).
• CIS-5372: Information Assurance (Fall 2010).
• COP-5614: Operating Systems (Spring 2010).
• CIS-5372: Information Assurance (Fall 2009).

Contact information:
  Department of Software and Information Systems 
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte 
  Office: Woodward Hall 333A 
  9201 University City Blvd. 
  Charlotte, NC 28223 
  Tel: (704) 687-1930 
  Email: jwei8 (at) uncc (dot) edu