Ning Zhang
Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone
314-935-6576 - Office
McKelvey Hall, Room 3052
Education
PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2016MS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2011
BS, MS, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007
Expertise
Building provable security protection in mission-critical systems
Research
Professor Zhang's research focus is system security, which lies at the intersection of security, computer architecture and programming language. He is particularly interested in secure software/hardware systems, side-channel analysis, malware and digital forensics. He is also interested in developing new methods to automatically discover and mitigate system vulnerabilities.
Biography
Professor Zhang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in Fall 2018. Prior to that, he was a principal cyber engineer/researcher and technical lead at Cyber Security Innovations of Raytheon. Throughout his eleven-year career at Raytheon, he has worked to protect various critical networked and cyberphysical infrastructures.
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