Fenglu Zhang (张丰露)

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I am a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Haixin Duan. Now, I am a visiting scholar at University of California, Irvine, working with Prof. Zhou Li.

My research interests include Internet Infrastructure, Network Protocol, Internet Measurement, and AI-support Software Test with five academic papers. Four of them are first-author publications. Four papers were published at top-tier venues (CCS, NDSS, IMC, and TDSC). One first-author paper won ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award, and one first-author paper was nominated for IRTF ANRP. I was also invited to present my research on community events including ICANN APAC DNS Forum and ICANN DNS Symposium & DNS-ORAC.

As a core member of Redbud / Bluelotus / Tea Deliverers, I won several Capture the Flag (CTF) awards, including 3rd place at DEFCON Final, championships at Digital China Innovation Contest 2021 (Cyberspace Security Track) and WCTF 2020 Campus. My main skills are Web and Misc.

I also got multiple awards, including National Scholarship, 1st-class Scholarship of Tsinghua University, and CCF Elite Collegiate Student Award.

Education

• 2020 - plan to graduate on June 2025: Tsinghua University，Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace，PhD. candidate
• 2024: University of California, Irvine, Visiting Scholar
• 2016 - 2020: Sun Yat-Sen University，School of Data and Computer Science，B.Sc.

Research Interests

• Internet Infrastructure
• Network Protocol
• Internet Measurement
• AI-support Software Test

Publications

• Published 5 academic papers
  • 4 being first-author publications
  • 4 papers were published at top-tier venues (CCS, NDSS, IMC, and TDSC)
• Awards
  • One first-author paper won ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award
  • One first-author paper was nominated for IRTF ANRP
• Community contributions
  • ICANN APAC DNS Forum * 2
  • ICANN DNS Symposium & DNS-ORAC * 2
  • APNIC blog

1. Fenglu Zhang, B. Liu, C. Lu, Y. Xing, Et Al. (2024). Investigating Deployment Issues of DNS Root Server Instances from a China-wide View. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
2. Fenglu Zhang, B. Liu, E. Alowaisheq, J. Chen, Et Al. (2023). Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
   • ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award.
   • Community event contribution: OARC 41 and ICANN APAC DNS Forum 2023.
3. Fenglu Zhang, Y. Zhang, B. Liu, E. Alowaisheq, Et Al. (2023). Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Evaluating Security Risks of the Undelegated Record on DNS Hosting Services. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference.
   • Nomination of IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP).
4. Fenglu Zhang, C. Lu, B. Liu, H. Duan, Et Al. (2022). Measuring the Practical Effect of DNS Root Server Instances: A China-Wide Case Study. Passive and Active Measurement.
   • Community event contribution: ICANN APAC DNS Forum 2022 and APNIC blog.
5. C. Lu, B. Liu, Y. Zhang, Z. Li, Fenglu Zhang, Et Al. (2021). From WHOIS to WHOWAS: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Domain Registration Privacy under the GDPR. Proceedings 2021 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
   • Coverage by Cybercrime Digest of Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (2021-02-25).
   • Coverage by Weekly letter of CERT-SE (2021-02-26).

Awards

• ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award 2023
• LONGFOR Scholarship 2023
• 1st-class Scholarship of Tsinghua University 2022 & 2021
• Graduate Award of Sun Yat-Sen University 2020
• Graduate Award of National Program for Top-notch Undergraduate in Basic Sciences 2020
• Chinese National Scholarship 2019 & 2018
• CCF Elite Collegiate Student Award 2019

Patents and IETF Drafts

• Fenglu Zhang, B. Liu, H. Duan, et al. A Method and System for Phishing Email Detection. Chinese Patent (2021105481898). Under examination.
• Fenglu Zhang, B. Liu, H. Duan, et al. Method, Electronic Device, and Medium for Determining Authorized DNS Root Instances. Chinese Patent (2023112803842). Under examination.
• Fenglu Zhang, et al. Secure Implementation for Selecting DNS Nameservers. IETF Draft. To appear at IETF 120.

CTF games

As the core member of Redbud, Bluelotus, Tea Deliverers, Waterdrop, some prizes I won:

• 3rd place DEFCON Final 2021
• 1st place Digital China Innovation Contest (Cyberspace Security Track) 2021
• 1st prize XCTF Final 2021
• 1st place WCTF Campus 2020
• 1st prize National College Student Information Security Contest 2019

Project

Secpaper

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