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Yan Lin (林艳)

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I am a Pre-tenure Associate Professor in College of Cyber Security, Jinan University (暨南大学, 网络空间安全学院), Guangzhou.

Research interests: System Security; Software Security; Smartphone and Mobile Security.

Education

Aug.2016 - Feb.2021 PhD. School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Sep.2013 - Jun.2016 MA.Sc. Computer School, Wuhan University

Sep.2009 - Jun.2013 B.Eng. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University

Work Experience

Aug.2022 - Current Pre-tenure Associate Professor. School of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou.

May.2021 - May.2022 Research Scientist. School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Oct.2014 - Oct.2015 Research Assistant. School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Publications
  1. Yan Lin, Trisha Singhal, Debin Gao, and David Lo. Analyzing and Revivifying Function Signature Inference using Deep Learning. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (CCF-B, 中科院 SCI 二区).
  2. Maliha Ismail, Yan Lin, Donggyun Han, and Debin Gao. BinAlign: Alignment Padding based Compiler Provenance Recovery. The 28th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) (CCF-C). July, 2023.
  3. Yan Lin, Joshua Wong, Debin Gao. FA^3: Fine-Grained Android Application Analysis. The 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile). Feb, 2023.
  4. Mengfei Xie, Yan Lin, Chenke Luo, Guojun Peng, and Jianming Fu. PointerScope: Understanding Pointer Patching for Code Randomization. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) (CCF-A). Aug, 2022.
  5. Yan Lin, Debin Gao, and David Lo. ReSIL: Revivifying Function Signature Inference using Deep Learning with Domain-Specific Knowledge. The 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY). April, 2022.
  6. Yan Lin, Debin Gao. When Function Signature Recovery Meets Compiler Optimization. The 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) (CCF-A). May, 2021.
  7. Yan Lin, Xiaoyang Cheng, Debin Gao. Control-Flow Carrying Code. The 14th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) (CCF-C). July, 2019.
  8. Xiaoyang Cheng, Yan Lin, Debin Gao. DynOpVm: VM-based Software Obfuscation with Dynamic Opcode Mapping. The 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) (CCF-C), June, 2019.
  9. Jianming Fu, Rui Jin, Yan Lin, Zhengwei Guo, Baihe Jiang. Function Risk Assessment under Memory Leakage. International Conference on Networking and Network Applications, October, 2018.
  10. Xiaoxiao Tang, Yan Lin, Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao. Towards Dynamically Monitoring Android Applications on Non-rooted Devices in the wild. The 11th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (Wisec) (CCF-C), June, 2018.
  11. Jianming Fu, Rui Jian, Yan Lin. FRProtector: Defeating Control Flow Hijacking Through Function-level Randomization and Transfer Protection The 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) (CCF-C), October, 2017 (short paper).
  12. Jianming Fu, Yan Lin, Xiuwen Liu, Xu Zhang. Survey of Randomization Defenses on Cloud Computing. Chinese Journal of Computers (计算机学报), 2018.
  13. Yan Lin, Xiaoxiao Tang, Debin Gao. SafeStack+: Enhanced Dual Stack to Combat Data-Flow Hijacking. The 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) (CCF-C), July, 2017.
  14. Xiaoxiao Tang, Yu Liang, Xinjie Ma, Yan Lin, Debin Gao. On the Effectiveness of Code-reuse-based Android Application Obfuscation. The 19th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC), November 2016.
  15. Jianming Fu, Yan Lin, Xu Zhang. Impact of Environment on Branch Transfer of Software. The 12th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) (CCF-C), October, 2016.
  16. Yan Lin, Xiaoxiao Tang, Debin Gao, Jianming Fu. Control Flow Integrity Enforcement with Dynamic Code Optimization. The 19th Information Security Conference (ISC) (CCF-C), September, 2016.
  17. Jianming Fu, Yan Lin, Xu Zhang. Code Reuse Attack Mitigation Based on Function Randomization Without Symbol Table. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (CCF-C), August, 2016.
  18. Jianming Fu, Pengwei Li, Yan Lin, Shuang Ding. Android App Malicious Behavior Detection Based on User Intention. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (CCF-C), August, 2016.
  19. Jianming Fu, Xu Zhang, Yan Lin. An Instruction-set Randomization Using Length-preserving Permutation. The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (CCF-C), August, 2015.
  20. Jianming Fu, Yan Lin, Xu Zhang. Computation Integrity Measurement Based on Branch Transfer. The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (CCF-C), September, 2014.
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