Summary
Qiang Zeng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina with eight years of academic experience and a Ph.D. from Penn State. His research focuses on systems security, particularly for IoT and mobile platforms, and he runs a Systems and Software Security lab actively recruiting PhD students, postdocs, and visiting scholars. Prior appointments include an assistant professorship at Temple University and research roles at Penn State and industry internships at NEC and IBM, producing publications in top venues like Oakland, NDSS, and PLDI. He has a strong systems background spanning operating systems, compilers, and virtualization, and his early work contributed to patents and practical tools for secure streaming and Java analysis. Based in Philadelphia but working nationally, he combines rigorous research with hands-on mentorship and a track record of translating ideas into deployable techniques. Email contact (zeng1@cse.sc.edu) is the preferred route for collaboration or student opportunities.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University
English, Chinese