PhD Student
Department of Compute Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo
Address:
338Y/309 Davis Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, 14260
Email: gliu25 [at] buffalo [dot] edu
[GitHub]
I am a PhD student in the Department of Compute Science and Engineering at University at Buffalo.
My advisors are Dr. Zhuoyue Zhao (Analytical DataBase (ADB) Lab) and Dr. Ziming Zhao ( CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab)).
My research areas are system security, embedded security, and database security.
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(On appear) "We just did not have that on the embedded system": Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions
by Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Kai Kaufman, Md Armanuzzaman, Xi Tan, Katherine Jesse, Robert J. Walls, Ziming Zhao
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025 -
Is the Canary Dead? On the Effectiveness of Stack Canaries on Microcontroller Systems
by Xi Tan, Sagar Mohan, Md Armanuzzaman, Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Alex Eastman, Hongxin Hu, Ziming Zhao
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2024
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MITRE Collegiate eCTF 2024
Team Cacti (Gaoxiang Liu, Zheyuan Ma, Afton Spiegel, Alex Eastman, Xi Tan, MD Armanuzzaman, and Sagar Mohan) advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2024. -
MITRE Collegiate eCTF 2023
Team Cacti (Zheyuan Ma, Gaoxiang Liu, Xi Tan, Md Armanuzzaman, Trevor Schupbach, Safayat Bin Hakim, Sagar Mohan, and Hiu Laam Chau) advised by Dr. Zhao and Dr. Hu placed 4th in MITRE eCTF 2023.
- Spring 2025: Teaching assistant for CSE 589 Modern Network Concept at UB
- Fall 2024: Teaching assistant for CSE 565 Comput Security at UB
- Spring 2024: Teaching assistant for CSE 560 Data Model and Query Language at UB
- Fall 2023: Teaching assistant for CSE 565 Computer Security at UB
- Spring 2023: Teaching assistant for CSE 560 Data Model and Query Language at UB