Dr. Kun Sun is an associate professor in George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. His research focuses on systems and network security. Dr. Sun has more than 15 years working experience in both industry and academia, and serves as the Chief Scientist of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) and the director of the Sun Security Laboratory (SunLab). We are continuously hiring self-motivated graduate and undergraduate students who have research interests on cyber security, operating system, and computer networks. Dr. Sun's CV can be found here.

• [NDSS20] One paper titled "When Match Fields Do Not Need to Match: Buffered Packets Hijacking in SDN" accepted by NDSS 2020. Congratulations to Jiahao Cao. [pdf]
• [DSN TPC] Invited to serve in the TPC of DSN 2020.
• [NDSS TPC] Invited to serve in the TPC of NDSS 2020.
• [USENIX Security19] One paper titled "The CrossPath Attack: Disrupting the SDN Control Channel via Shared Links" accepted by USENIX Security19. Congratulations to Jiahao Cao. [pdf]

• Cyber Deception/Moving Target Defense: Against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.  -- SunTzu
• System Security: Trusted Computing (TrustZone&SGX), Android security; Cloud security; IoT security.
• Network Security: SDN security, Wireless security

Current PhD Students:

• Shengye Wan, PhD (Expected 2020)
• Songsong Liu, PhD
• Xinda Wang, PhD
• Shu Wang, PhD
• Xu He, PhD
• Jiahao Cao, Visiting PhD (Tsinghua University)
• Jie Wang, Visiting PhD (CAS)

Former PhD Students:

• Jianhua Sun, PhD (2019), Facebook
• Yue Li, PhD (2019, co-advised with Prof. Haining Wang), Facebook.
• Kyle Wallace, PhD (2018, co-advised with Prof. Gang Zhou), MITRE
  

• AIT 681Secure Software Engineering (Spring 2017/2018/2019/2020, GMU)
• AIT 682 Network and Systems Security (Fall 2017/2018/2019, GMU)
• CYSE 411Secure Software Engineering (Spring 2017/2018, GMU)
  
• CSCI 454/554 Computer and Network Security (Spring 2015/2016, W&M)
• CSCI 680 Advanced System and Network Security (Fall 2015, W&M)
• CSCI 780 Advanced Network Security (Fall 2014, W&M)
  

• NSF Panelist 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019 (2).
• Geneal Chair: SecureComm 2020.
• TPC Co-Chair: SciSec, 2020.
• TPC Member: NDSS 2020, CCS 2015-2017/2019, DSN 2017/2020, ACSAC 2019, INFOCOM 2016-2020, MTD 2015-2020, ICDCS 2019, SecureComm 2016-2018, ICICS 2018-2019, CNS 2014/2016-2019, ICC 2015-2019.
• Travel Grant Chair: RAID 2019.
• Workshop Co-chair: NSF SPS 2018.
• Workshop Co-chair: IEEE CNS 2018.
• TPC Co-Chair: First ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014), in conjunction with ACM CCS 2014.

• [NDSS20] Jiahao Cao, Renjie Xie, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Guofei Gu, and Mingwei Xu. "When Match Fields Do Not Need to Match: Buffered Packets Hijacking in SDN". To appear in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 23-26, 2020. [pdf]
• [RAID19] Jiahao Cao, Zijie Yang, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Mingwei Xu, and Peiyi Han. "Fingerprinting SDN Applications via Encrypted Control Traffic." To appear in the 22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2019), Beijing, China, September 23-25, 2019. (Acceptance ratio: 22.28%=37/166) [pdf}
• [DSN19] Shengye Wan, Jianhua Sun, Kun Sun, Ning Zhang, and Qi Li. "SATIN: A Secure and Trustworthy Asynchronous Introspection on Multi-Core ARM Processors". To appear in the 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Portland, Oregon, June 24-27, 2019. (Acceptance ratio: 21.40%=54/252) [pdf]
• [USENIX Security19] Jiahao Cao, Qi Li, Renjie Xie, Kun Sun, Guofei Gu, Mingwei Xu, and Yuan Yang. "The CrossPath Attack: Disrupting the SDN Control Channel via Shared Links". To appear in 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'19), Santa Clara, CA, August 14-16, 2019. [pdf]
• [CCS17] Lingguang Lei, Yi He, Kun Sun, Jiwu Jing, Yuewu Wang, Qi Li, and Jian Weng. "Vulnerable Implicit Service: A Revisit". To appear in the 24nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Dallas, Texas, October 30-November 3, 2017. (Acceptance ratio: 18%=151/836) [pdf]
• [S&P16] Ning Zhang, Kun Sun, Wenjing Lou, and Tom Hou. "CaSE: Cache-Assisted Secure Execution on ARM Processors." To appear in the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), SAN JOSE, CA, MAY 23-25, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 13.75%=55/400) [pdf]
• [EuroS&P16] Ning Zhang, He Sun, Kun Sun, Wenjing Lou, and Thomas Hou. "CacheKit: Evading Memory Introspection Using Cache Incoherence". To appear in the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Saarbrucken, GERMANY, on March 21-24, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 17.26%=29/168) [pdf]
• [CCS15] He Sun, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, and Jiwu Jing. "TrustOTP: Transforming Smartphones into Secure One-Time Password Tokens". To appear in the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Denver, Colorado, October 12-16, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 19.81%=128/646) [pdf]
• [S&P15] Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang, and Kun Sun. "Using Hardware Features for Increased Debugging Transparency". To appear in the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Fairmont, San Jose, CA, May 18-20, 2015. (Acceptance ratio:13.51%=55/407) [pdf]
  
• [NDSS15] Xueqiang Wang, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, and Jiwu Jing. "DeepDroid: Dynamically Enforcing Enterprise Policy on Android Devices", In the Proceedings of 2015 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 8-11, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 16.88%=51/302) [pdf]