publications

2025

    2024

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      Formal Trust and Threat Modeling Using Large Language Models
      Zhihao Yao
      In Proc. ACSAC Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence (WAITI), 2024
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      Artificial-Intelligence Generated Code Considered Harmful: A Road Map for Secure and High-Quality Code Generation
      Chun Jie Chong, Zhihao Yao, and Iulian Neamtiu
      Technical Report 2024-09-27, NJIT, 2024
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      Casper: Prompt Sanitization for Protecting User Privacy in Web-Based Large Language Models
      Chun Jie Chong, Chenxi Hou, Zhihao Yao, and 1 more author
      Technical Report 2024-08-13, NJIT, 2024
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      Hora: High Assurance Periodic Availability Guarantee for Life-Critical Applications on Smartphones
      Dylan Zueck, Nathaniel Atallah, Ian Do, and 2 more authors
      In Proc. ACM APSys, 2024
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      ProvCam: A Camera Module with Self-Contained TCB for Producing Verifiable Videos
      Yuxin Liu, Zhihao Yao, Mingyi Chen, and 3 more authors
      In Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2024
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      Poster: StreamGuard: Enabling Secure and Uncensored Video Calls on Mobile Devices
      Chenxi Hou, Zhihao Yao, and Hui Peng
      In Proc. ACM MobiSys Poster, 2024
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    2023

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      Minimizing a Smartphone’s TCB for Security-Critical Programs with Exclusively-Used, Physically-Isolated, Statically-Partitioned Hardware
      Zhihao Yao, Seyed Mohammadjavad Seyed Talebi, Mingyi Chen, and 2 more authors
      In Proc. ACM MobiSys, 2023 🏆Best Artifact Award
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      GLeeFuzz: Fuzzing WebGL Through Error Message Guided Mutation
      Hui Peng, Zhihao Yao, Ardalan Amiri Sani, and 2 more authors
      In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2023
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      A real-time electrical load forecasting and unsupervised anomaly detection framework
      Xinlin Wang, Zhihao Yao, and Marios Papaefthymiou
      Applied Energy, 2023
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      Building secure systems across all layers
      Zhihao Yao
      Doctoral thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2023
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    2021

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      Undo Workarounds for Kernel Bugs
      Seyed Mohammadjavad Seyed Talebi, Zhihao Yao, Ardalan Amiri Sani, and 2 more authors
      In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2021
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    2018

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      Sugar: Secure GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers
      Zhihao Yao, Zongheng Ma, Yingtong Liu, and 2 more authors
      In Proc. ACM ASPLOS, 2018
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      Milkomeda: Safeguarding the Mobile GPU Interface Using WebGL Security Checks
      Zhihao Yao, Saeed Mirzamohammadi, Ardalan Amiri Sani, and 1 more author
      In Proc. ACM CCS, 2018
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