Jiahao Cao is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace (INSC), Tsinghua University. He also serves as the primary leader responsible for security development in the Future Internet Technology Infrastructure (FITI) project in China. Before joining in INSC, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. Degree at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University in 2020. He is broadly interested in security research related to networking protocols and systems. He has published many papers in top-tier conferences and journals such as NDSS, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, INFOCOM, TIFS, ToN. Additionally, he has discovered numerous vulnerabilities in various networking systems, many of which have been assigned CVE, CNVD, or CNNVD numbers, affecting a wide range of switches and routers. He was awarded the ACM SIGSAC China Doctoral Dissertation Award (2021), recognized as a Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar (2021), named an Excellent Ph.D. Graduate in the Department of CST at Tsinghua University (2020), and earned the Best Paper Award at EAI SecureComm 2017. His current interests mainly focus on the following domains: (1) Network Traffic Analysis (e.g., VPN/Censorship Identification, Network Attack Detection) (2) Network Protocol Security (e.g., RDMA/BGP/RPKI/OpenFlow Vulnerability Discovery through Fuzzing or Manual Analysis)
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace
ACM SIGSAC China Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM SIGSAC China
Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar
Tsinghua University
Best Paper Award in the SecureComm conference
EAI SecureComm