I am a 5th year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue Univeristy. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Pedro Fonseca and work with other pepole in the Reliable and Secure Systems Lab. Before joining Purdue, I obtained my B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2019.
I am broadly interested in operating system research. My recent research focuses on improving the reliability and security of real-world kernels, with particular interests in kernel testing.
Publications
Conference
VeriSMo: A Verified Security Module for Confidential VMs
In the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'24)
Ziqiao Zhou, Anjali, Weiteng Chen, Sishuai Gong, Chris Hawblitzel, Weidong Cui.
(To appear)
Snowcat: Efficient Kernel Concurrency Testing using a Learned Coverage Predictor
Sishuai Gong, Dinglan Peng, Deniz Altınbüken, Pedro Fonseca, Petros Maniatis.
In the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23)
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KIT: Testing OS-level Virtualization for Functional Interference Bugs
Congyu Liu, Sishuai Gong, Pedro Fonseca.
In the 28th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'23)
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Snowboard: Finding Kernel Concurrency Bugs through Systematic Inter-thread Communication Analysis
Sishuai Gong, Deniz Altınbüken, Pedro Fonseca, Petros Maniatis.
In the 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'21)
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On-Demand-Fork: A Microsecond Fork for Memory-Intensive and Latency-Sensitive Applications
Kaiyang Zhao, Sishuai Gong, Pedro Fonseca.
In the 16th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'21)
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InspectorGadget: A Framework for Inferring TCP Congestion Control Algorithms and Protocol Configurations
Sishuai Gong, Usama Naseer, Theophilus Benson.
In the IFIP Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'20)
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Book
Machine Learning Techniques for Cybersecurity
Elisa Bertino, Sonam Bhardwaj, Fabrizio Cicala, Sishuai Gong, Imtiaz Karim, Charalampos Katsis, Adrian Shuai Li, Ashraf Y. Mahgoub.
In the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, Sprinter Nature, 2023
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Honors & Awards & Services
Google Cloud Research Innovator, 2024
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, 2024 - 2025
Reviewer (ERC) for USENIX ATC, 2024
Work Experience
Microsoft Research, Redmond/Virtual, WA.
Cryptography, Security, and Privacy Group
Research Intern (May 2022 - July 2022)
Brown University, Providence, RI.
Research Intern (August 2018 - October 2018)