Chuangang Ren
About me
I work in Android Security Team at Google.
I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in August, 2016. I am working with a group of bright and motivated folks in Cyber Security Lab, advised by Dr. Peng Liu and Dr. Sencun Zhu. I earned my B.S and M.S degree majoring in Electrical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2007 and Boston University in 2009, respectively.
My research interest is in computer security, more specifically in smartphone security and cloud security. I am also interested in the design of cost-and-energy-aware high performance distribution systems like Internet data centers and clouds.
My latest CV can be found here.
I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in August, 2016. I am working with a group of bright and motivated folks in Cyber Security Lab, advised by Dr. Peng Liu and Dr. Sencun Zhu. I earned my B.S and M.S degree majoring in Electrical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2007 and Boston University in 2009, respectively.
My research interest is in computer security, more specifically in smartphone security and cloud security. I am also interested in the design of cost-and-energy-aware high performance distribution systems like Internet data centers and clouds.
My latest CV can be found here.
Publications
- Chuangang Ren, Peng Liu, "WindowGuard: Systematic Protection of GUI System in Android", to appear in the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, Feb 26-Mar 1, 2017 (NDSS 2017). Acceptance Rate: 16.1% (68/423).
- Chuangang Ren, Yulong Zhang, Hui Xue, Tao Wei, Peng Liu, "Towards Discovering and Understanding Task Hijacking in Android", in the Proceedings of 24th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington D.C., Aug 12-14, 2015 (USENIX Security). Acceptance Rate: 15.7% (67/426). [pdf] [slides] [1-min lightning talk]
Attack Demos : [Demo 1: user spoofing ], [Demo 2: phishing attack], [Demo 3: denial of service]
- Heqing Huang, Kai Chen, Chuangang Ren, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, Dinghao Wu, "Towards Discovering and Understanding the Unexpected Hazards in Tailoring Antivirus Software for Android", in the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, Singapore, Apr 14-17, 2015. (ASIA CCS 2015). [pdf]
- Chuangang Ren, Kai Chen, Peng Liu, "Droidmarking: Resilient Software Watermarking for Impeding Android Application Repackaging", in the Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Vasteras, Sweden, Sep 15-19, 2014 (ASE 2014). Acceptance Rate: 19.9%. [pdf]
- Tao Wei, Yulong Zhang, Hui Xue, Min Zheng, Chuangang Ren, "Sidewinder Targeted Attack against Android in the Golden Age of Ad Libraries", Blackhat U.S.A., Las Vegas, NV, Aug 2-7, 2014. [pdf]
- Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Sriram Govindan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Aman Kansal and Kushagra Vaid, “ACE: Abstraction, Characterizing and Exploiting Datacenter Power Demands”, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2013). [pdf] - Best Paper Award
- Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Anand Sivasubramaniam, “Virtualizing Power Distribution in Datacenters”, in the Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA 2013). [pdf]
- Chuangang Ren, Di Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, "Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters", in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2012). Acceptance Rate: 36.6% [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation] - Best Paper Award
- Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Hosam K. Fathy, "Energy Storage in Datacenters: What, Where and How Much?", in the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2012). Acceptance Rate: 15.3% [pdf] [bibtex] - Best Paper Candidate
Other Experience
I worked as a software engineer in the Lab of Computational Cell Biology (LCCB), supervised by Dr. Gaudenz Danuser, at Harvard Medical School from Mar. to Dec., 2010. My work focuses on the development and distribution of computer vision software for the purpose of cell biology research.
Latest Update: 1/23/2017