Hong Hu
Assistant Professor at Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolHong Hu is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University with 11 years of experience bridging systems research and security, specializing in system security and binary analysis. Trained with a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, he builds trustworthy systems by detecting memory errors in commercial off-the-shelf software and devising general defenses to harden vulnerable programs. His trajectory includes postdoctoral work at Georgia Tech and research roles at NUS where he both developed exploit techniques and practical mitigations, giving him a rare dual insight into offensive and defensive perspectives. He focuses on practical, deployable solutions that translate deep program analysis into robust system-level protections. Based in State College, PA, he combines rigorous academic research with hands-on tool development that has informed secure software engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Security, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Security at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), System security, binary analysis, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), System security, binary analysis at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
ranking9
multi-layer8
science8
computer-science7
react7
targets7
gadget6
concurrent3
golang2
fuzzing2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uCFI-GATech/ucfi-compiler
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
huhong789/llvm_passes
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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