Dinghao Wu          

Dinghao Wu

Dewey Walker Professor

College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
Mailing address:
  E355 Westgate Building
  University Park, PA 16802
Office: E355 Westgate Building
Phone: (814) 867-3612
Fax: (814) 865-6426
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Open Positions: I am looking for two undergraduate research assistants,
with GUI design and programming experience.

Research Highlights: The Uroboros work has been adopted by 2 teams among
the 7 finalists in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) competition!


Education:  Ph.D., Computer Science (advised by Andrew W. Appel), Princeton University, 2005.
M.E., Computer Software and Theory (advised by Jian Lu), Nanjing University, 1999.
B.E., Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, 1996.

Teaching:   WC IST 543: Software Security (World Campus), Spring 2024: CANVAS

Research Interests
     My research is mainly on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and software systems. My research interests include software security, software protection, software analysis and verification, malware analysis, programming languages, and software engineering. I am also interested in adversarial machine learning, differential privacy, and applying deep learning for cybersecurity problems.

Professional Activities: Program Committees: AAAI 2024, CIKM 2022, ICSOFT 2022, ICSE 2021, MLBA 2020, Cybersecurity journal guest editor for a special series on Binary Analysis, ACM CCS (2019, 2018, 2017), SPRO 2019, HotSoS 2018, SecureComm (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017), FEAST (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 (PC Co-chair)), QRS (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015), ICSE 2016 (SEIP Track), ENASE (2022, 2021, 2015).

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Hobbies: The Game of Go, Chinese Chess, Calligraphy.