Xin'an Zhou
Graduate Student Researcher
Riverside, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin'an Zhou is a computer security PhD candidate and graduate student researcher at UC Riverside with a decade of experience focused on network security and cryptography, especially protecting protocols, architectures, and wireless systems. Advised by Professors Zhiyun Qian and Srikanth Krishnamurthy, his dissertation rethinks network access control to safeguard critical infrastructure, bridging theoretical cryptographic rigor with practical network defenses. He has industry research experience from an internship at Palo Alto Networks and a strong academic foundation from Fudan University, complemented by an MS with a 4.0 GPA. Known for exploring privacy-preserving designs across layered network stacks, he combines hands-on protocol analysis with system-level experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Chinese, English, shanghai language （滬語）
Github Skills (5)
ctf7
security2
penetration-testing2
frida2
java1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sixstars/CTF365
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ctfdaypractise
zhouxinan/CCS22MaaGIoT
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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