Ziming Zhao Assistant Professor Computing Security Department, Center for Cybersecurity Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology

I am an assistant professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I direct the CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab). I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University. I was a research assistant professor and co-director at SEFCOM Lab. My research interests are in hardware-assisted security, system security, usable security, and cybercrime analysis. I am a recipient of Best Paper Awards from USENIX Security 2019, ACM CODASPY 2014, and ITU Kaleidoscope 2016.

I am the faculty advisor and the founder of the CTF teams Cacti (all kinds of CTFs) and TigerBytes (hardware CTFs) at RIT.

I am looking for self-motivated PhD students to work on security.

Teaching

• Fall 2019, RIT CSEC 659 Seminar in Computing Security: Trusted Computing and Trusted Execution.
• Spring 2019, RIT CSEC 741 Sensor and SCADA Security.
• Fall 2018, RIT CSEC 750 Covert Communications.
• Spring 2018, ASU CSE 469 Computer and Network Forensics.
• Spring 2017, ASU CSE 469 Computer and Network Forensics. Student Evaluation of Instructor: 4.49/5
• Fall 2016, ASU CSE 468 Computer Network Security. Student Evaluation of Instructor: 4.49/5

Publications

Ph.D. Graduates

• Wonkyu Han. Dissertation: Policy-driven Network Defense for Software Defined Networks. Arizona State University. 2016 (Co-advised with Prof. Gail-Joon Ahn)

Last updated 7/2019