Yue Zhang is a PhD student in the College of Information Science and Technology & College of Cyber Security at Jinan University, under the supervision of Jian Weng. Also, he studied and worked at the University of Central Florida (UCF) / University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), under the supervision of Xinwen Fu. His research focuses on system security, especially IoT security. He has identified design flaws of Android which were officially confirmed as High severity by Google. A few vulnerabilities of Texas Instruments (TI) that he identified were able to break the Bluetooth permission policy, and TI released a patched SDK based on his report. He has also explored the design flaws that severely undermine the security of Cloud Drives. His findings were widely reported by mainstream media in China, including China Central Television (CCTV), Weibo, Sohu, and various other presses. Other exploits influenced Microsoft, Logitech and various other known vendors. He has published papers in international conferences and journals such as IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TVT, RAID, etc.
