Ziming Zhao Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University at Buffalo

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. I direct the CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab). I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Arizona State University. I was an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and an assistant research professor at SEFCOM, Arizona State University.

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.

My research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Defense (DoD). I am a recipient of an NSF CRII award (2020). I am a visiting faculty at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Summer 2020.

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

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

Teaching

• Fall 2020, UB CSE 610 Special Topics: Software Security - Attack and Defense for Binaries.
• Spring 2020, RIT CSEC 741 Internet of Things Security.
• 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 7/2020