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Gen Lu

Address

Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Gould-Simpson Building 749
1040 E. 4th Street
Tucson, AZ 85721

Email

genlu at cs dot arizona dot edu

About Me

I received my Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science at The University of Arizona in January 2014, under the supervision of my advisor, Dr. Saumya Debray. I received my M.S. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in May, 2008 and B.E. from Beihang University in July, 2006. My CV is here.

My research interests are in the area of program analysis and optimization, with a focus on analysis and reverse engineering of malware code. I have worked on web and software security and malware analysis in the context of the lynx project.

Publications

  • A Simple Client-Side Defense Against Environment-Dependent Web-Based Malware [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Gen Lu, Karan Chadha and Saumya Debray.
    In the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software "The Americas" (MALWARE 2013 The Americas), Fajardo, Puerto Rico, October 2013
  • Weaknesses in Defenses against Web-Borne Malware (Short Paper) [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Gen Lu and Saumya Debray.
    In the Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA’13), 139-149, Berlin, Germany, July 2013.
  • Automatic Simplification of Obfuscated JavaScript Code: A Semantics-Based Approach [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Gen Lu and Saumya Debray.
    In the Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE’12), 31-40, Gaithersburg, MD, June 2012.
  • Automatic Simplification of Obfuscated JavaScript Code (Extended Abstract) [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Gen Lu, Kevin Coogan and Saumya Debray.
    In the Proceedings of ICISTM-12 Workshop on Program Protection and Reverse Engineering (PPREW), 348-359, Grenoble, France, March 2012.
  • Deobfuscation of Virtualization-Obfuscated Software: A Semantics-Based Approach [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Kevin Coogan, Gen Lu and Saumya Debray.
    In the Proceedings of 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’11), 275-284, Chicago, IL, October 2011.
  • Energy-Efficient Storage in Virtual Machine Environments [Abstract | PDF | BibTex]
    Lei Ye, Gen Lu, Sushanth Kumar, Chris Gniady and John H. Hartman.
    In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE’10), 75-84, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2010.