Research
Past Projects
Fall Junior - Present: Creating K-LEB, the fastest timer-based hardware performance counter monitoring system
Fall Junior - Spring Senior: Employing hardware performance counters to detect malware within programs
Spring Junior: Contention-aware Virtual Machine Scheduling via Runtime Performance Monitoring
Spring Sophomore: Creating a machine learning algorithm that monitors hardware events in order to detect encryption downgrade attacks (FREAK)
Fall Sophomore: Experimented with the number of bits required to extract a server's private key by exploiting a memory buffer overread (OpenSSL Heartbleed)
Pre-Sophomore: Created a system in which the user of a Google Glass could determine another person's heart rate in real time
Spring Freshman: Booted, flashed and attempted to implement the cryptosystem on an Inforce board
Pre-Freshman: Optimized an implementation of Professor Feng Hao's Biometric Cryptosystem
Publications
C. Woralet, J. Bruska, C. Liu, and L. Yan,
”High Frequency Performance Monitoring via Architectural Event Measurement,” October 2020, IISWC ’20
G. Torres, Z. Yang, Z. Blasingame, J. Bruska, and C. Liu.
“Detecting Non-Control-Flow Hijacking Attack Using Contextual Execution Information,” June 2019, HASP ’19
C. Liu, Z. Yang, Z. Blasingame, G. Torres, and J. Bruska.
”Detecting Data Exploits Using Low-level Hardware Information: A Short Time Series Approach,” June 2018, RESEC ’18
J. Bruska, Z. Blasingame, and C.Liu,
“Verification of Openssl version via hardware performance counters,” April 2017, SPIE ’17
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