Dr. Luyi Xing joined Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2018 after three years experience of building large commercial systems at Amazon. Now he is co-leading the System Security Group at IUB with Prof. XiaoFeng Wang and Prof. Xiaojing Liao. His current research focus is security analysis on IoT and mobile systems (both iOS and Android), which has led to the discovery of many design/logic vulnerabilities on commercial and open-source systems. His research broadly involves protocol design and analysis, program analysis, formal verification, machine learning/NLP, etc. He is among the very first few practitioners in iOS security research. What his group discovered are typically fundamental design weaknesses, versus implementation bugs/mistakes. With in-depth understanding of systems and innovative, in-depth root cause/challenge analysis, they developed new techniques to protect systems of Apple, Google, Amazon/AWS, Microsoft, Samsung, IBM, Alibaba, PayPal, Firefox, Tencent and much more. His research on OSX, iOS, Android, Cloud has been reported by Time, CNN, Forbes, Mirror, Fox News, Yahoo, CNET, The Register, Sina, 163, Sohu and more.
