Zhichuang Sun

PhD Student

  • Security and Privacy
  • Systems and Networking
  • Programming Languages
  • MS, Peking University - China
  • BS, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - China
  • Hometown: China
  • Field of Study: System Security
  • PhD Advisor: Long Lu

Zhichuang Sun is a PhD student in the System Security program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by professor Long Lu. Sun, a native of China, joins Northeastern after earning his Bachelor’s of science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and his Master’s of science from Peking University. His research interests include programming languages, security and privacy and systems and networks. He is a member of the RiS3 lab.

Sun is interested in security because it's becoming more and more important, challenging and interesting. He is currently working on the combination of systems and security, on the remote attestation of IoT devices -- thinking about how to efficiently verify the security status of IoT devices that are currently deployed everywhere around the world.

System Security, especially IoT device security.

Generally I'm interested in security because it's becoming more and more important, challenging and interesting. I used to be interested in systems, and I love building system software like Operating Systems and Compilers because they are more important and challenging than applications and they are the foundation that applications rely on. I used to join in the development of open-source operating systems and emulators. Now I'm working on the combination of systems and security, and my systems background helps a lot in system security research. To be more specific, I work on remote attestation of IoT devices, thinking about how to efficiently verify the security status of IoT devices that are deployed everywhere nowadays.

Offering strong security guarantees for IoT devices in an efficient way.

We will use a lot of program analysis techniques to assistant programmers in augmenting the program, which makes applying our system easier. We also try to take advantage of hardware features of IoT devices, so that the trust of the system will be rooted in hardware.

I have two dreams, the first one is to be a professor, the second is to start a company of my own. To be a good professor requires me to be a smart and hardworking PhD.