Sishuai Gong
Ph.D. Candidate
Reliable and Secure Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

Email: sishuai [at] purdue [dot] edu
CV: pdf

 

About Me

I am a final year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue Univeristy. I am advised by 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, with a particular focus on system reliability and security.

 

Publications

Conference

  • KRR: Efficient and Scalable Kernel Record Replay
    Tianren Zhang, Sishuai Gong, Pedro Fonseca.
    In the 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'25)
    To appear

  • Snowplow: Effective Kernel Fuzzing with a Learned White-box Test Mutator
    Sishuai Gong, Rui Wang, Deniz Altınbüken, Pedro Fonseca, Petros Maniatis.
    In the 30th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'25)
    [pdf]

  • VeriSMo: A Verified Security Module for Confidential VMs
    Ziqiao Zhou, Anjali, Weiteng Chen, Sishuai Gong, Chris Hawblitzel, Weidong Cui.
    In the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'24)
    [pdf]

  • 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)
    [pdf] [appendix] [slides] [code] 🚜

  • 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)
    [pdf] [slides] [code]

  • 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)
    [pdf] [poster] [slides] [code] 🏂

  • 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)
    [pdf] [slides] [code]

  • 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)
    [pdf]

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
    [link]

 

 

Honors & Awards & Services

  • Google Cloud Research Innovator, 2024
  • Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship at Purdue, 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)
    Mentor: Ziqiao Zhou and Weidong Cui

  • Brown University, Providence, RI.
    Research Intern (August 2018 - October 2018)
    Advisor: Theophilus Benson

 

Last update: 2025-03-25