Yunyi Zhang ☕️

About Me

Yunyi Zhang is a Ph.D. student as a member of joint Ph.D. program between National University of Defense Technology (advised by Professors Min Zhang) and Tsinghua University (advised by Professors Haixin Duan and Baojun Liu). His research interests include network security, internet measurement, and emerging cyberspace security threats. He has published papers at top academic venues, including USENIX Security, ACM IMC, ISOC NDSS, IEEE TDSC and IEEE TDSC. His academic research results have achieved real-world impact by receiving bonus from several vendors, including Baidu, Tencent, Micrcsoft, Yahoo, Alibaba and Amazon.

Interests
  • Network Security
  • DNS Security
  • Internet Measurement
  • Underground Economy
  • LLM Privacy and Security
Education
  • joint Ph.D. program in Cyberspace Security

    Tsinghua University

  • Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security

    National University of Defense Technology

  • MESc in Cyberspace Security

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology

    Qingdao University of Science and Technology

Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2024). Understanding and Characterizing the Adoption of Internationalized Domain Names in Practice. In IEEE TDSC.
(2024). Cross the Zone: Toward a Covert Domain Hijacking via Shared DNS Infrastructure. In USENIX Sec'24.
(2024). Into the Dark: Unveiling Internal Site Search Abused for Black Hat SEO. In USENIX Sec'24.
(2024). Rethinking the Security Threats of Stale DNS Glue Records. In USENIX Sec'24.