Zhihao Yao
Zhihao Yao
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
4317A Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
Ph.D.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2023
M.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2020
B.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2017
M.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2020
B.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2017
Awards & Honors
2023 Best Artifact Award, ACM MobiSys 2023
Website
2025 Spring Courses
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 332 - PRINCIPLES OF OPER SYS - HONORS
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 332 - PRINCIPLES OF OPER SYS - HONORS
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
Past Courses
CS 630: OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING & ARCHITECTURE
CS 785: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING & ARCHITECTURE
Conference Proceeding
“Hora: High Assurance Periodic Availability Guarantee for Life-Critical Applications on Smartphones”
ACM APSys, September 2024.
“ProvCam: A Camera Module with Self-Contained TCB for Producing Verifiable Videos”
ACM MobiCom, May 2024.
“GLeeFuzz: Fuzzing WebGL Through Error Message Guided Mutation”
USENIX Security 2023, August 2023.
“Minimizing a Smartphone's TCB for Security-Critical Programs with Exclusively-Used, Physically-Isolated, Statically-Partitioned Hardware”
ACM MobiSys 2023, June 2023.
“Undo workarounds for kernel bugs”
USENIX Security 2021, August 2021.
“Milkomeda: Safeguarding the mobile gpu interface using webgl security checks”
ACM CCS 2018, September 2018.
“Sugar: Secure GPU acceleration in web browsers”
ACM ASPLOS 2018, March 2018.
ACM APSys, September 2024.
“ProvCam: A Camera Module with Self-Contained TCB for Producing Verifiable Videos”
ACM MobiCom, May 2024.
“GLeeFuzz: Fuzzing WebGL Through Error Message Guided Mutation”
USENIX Security 2023, August 2023.
“Minimizing a Smartphone's TCB for Security-Critical Programs with Exclusively-Used, Physically-Isolated, Statically-Partitioned Hardware”
ACM MobiSys 2023, June 2023.
“Undo workarounds for kernel bugs”
USENIX Security 2021, August 2021.
“Milkomeda: Safeguarding the mobile gpu interface using webgl security checks”
ACM CCS 2018, September 2018.
“Sugar: Secure GPU acceleration in web browsers”
ACM ASPLOS 2018, March 2018.
Conference Abstract
“(Poster) StreamGuard: Enabling Secure and Uncensored Video Calls on Mobile Devices”
ACM MobiSys 2024, June 2024.
ACM MobiSys 2024, June 2024.
Journal Article
Xinlin Wang, Zhihao Yao, Marios Papaefthymiou. 2022. “A real-time electrical load forecasting and unsupervised anomaly detection framework.” Applied Energy, vol. 330, no. A, pp. 120279.
Zhihao Yao, Zongheng Ma, Yingtong Liu, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran. 2018. “Sugar: Secure GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers.” ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 519-534.
Zhihao Yao, Zongheng Ma, Yingtong Liu, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran. 2018. “Sugar: Secure GPU Acceleration in Web Browsers.” ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 519-534.