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Biography

Guannan Liu is a newly appointed assistant professor at CS@Mines. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2023, and his BS degree from Purdue University in 2016. His research interests include System and Network Security, Human-Factor Security, and User Authentication. Leveraging systematic and comprehensive measurement techniques, he has investigated various online services to uncover vulnerabilities led by resource mismanagement.

The discovered vulnerabilities have been disclosed to large tech companies, and the research results have been published in top-tier security venues.

Education

• Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech (2023)
• BS from Purdue University (2016)

Research

• Network security
• System security
• Cloud computing and Security
• Resource (Mis)Management
• User Authentication, access control, and authorization

Publications

• An Investigation of Identity-Account Inconsistency in Single Sign-On (https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10324786)
• Ready Raider One: Exploring the Misuse of Cloud Gaming Services (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3548606.3560647)
• IMC'23] Dial “N” for NXDomain: The Scale, Origin, and Security Implications of DNS Queries to Non-Existent Domains
• [CCS'22] Ready Raider One: Exploring the Misuse of Cloud Gaming Services
• [USENIX'22] Exploring the Unchartered Space of Container Registry Typosquatting
• [WWW'21] An Investigation of Identity-Account Inconsistency in Single Sign-On
• [TDSC'19] Investigating Security Vulnerabilities in a Hot Data Center with Reduced Cooling Redundancy
• [FIE'16] Knowledge transfer: Does more experience yield improved design quality?
• [ASEE'16] Quantitative Information Acquisition and Utilization by First-Year Engineering Students

Awards & Honors

• Student Travel Grant: DSN 2022
• Dean’s List and Semester Honors

Additional Information

Interested In Working Together?

Dr. Liu has multiple openings for self-motivated students to work on cybersecurity research. Prospective researchers should email Dr. Liu with CVs and any other supporting materials.