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Heng Yin

 

Assistant Professor

 

4-191 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
TEL: 315-443-2483

FAX: 325-443-2583

Email: heyin [at] syr [dot] edu

 

 

I am an assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Syracuse University, I was a member of BitBlaze research group at UC Berkeley.

Research

My research interests lie in computer security. In particular, I'm working on executable code analysis (also called binary analysis), and its application to computer security. My PhD dissertation tackled the problem of automatic detection and analysis of malicious code. First, I developed a generic and extensible dynamic binary analysis platform, codenamed TEMU, which is based on an open-source CPU emulator QEMU. Then I proposed a series of techniques to detect and analyze malicious behaviors from several different aspects. These techniques were implemented as plugins to TEMU platform, namely Renovo,PanoramaHookFinder, and HookScout.  Check my dissertation for more details.

I have also worked on network security topics, such as IPsec, Email Spam, and BGP security.

Please check out my publication page and my CV if you want to get more information about my research!

Teaching

Spring 2010: CIS 700 ¨C Malware Defense and Software Security

Projects

I aim to pursue the following projects. For highly motivated current and prospective students, if you are interested in one of these topics or a related one, please drop me an email or stop by my office.

 

¡¤ TEMUv2: Next-generation dynamic binary analysis platform

¡¤ Advanced Malware Detection and Analysis

¡¤ Virtualization for Computer Security

¡¤ Computer Forensic Analysis

 

Software

¡¤ TEMU: A dynamic binary analysis platform. It has just been released.

 

¡¤ IPSAPPOLA prototype of Application-aware IPsec Policy System on Linux 2.6 (Use at your own risk!)