B.Eng. (Tsinghua), Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Associate Professor

Computer Security and Privacy, Computer Systems, Software Engineering

Research Areas
  • Applications
  • Data and Software Engineering
    • Software Technologies
  • Networks and Systems
    • Cyber Security
    • Distributed Systems and Networks

Links

  • Director, Computer Security Lab

Biography

Wei Meng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He currently leads the Computer Security Lab in the CSE department at CUHK. His research focuses on computer security and privacy. He is particularly interested in designing and building systems to protect end users and applications on the Internet. His research has been published at top conferences such as IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, WWW, CCS, NDSS, ESEC/FSE and NSDI. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017 and his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2012.

  • Penghui Li, Wei Meng, Kangjie Lu: SEDiff: Scope-Aware Differential Fuzzing to Test Internal Function Models in Symbolic Execution. Proceedings of The 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), November 2022.
  • Yinxi Liu, Wei Meng: Acquirer: A Hybrid Approach to Detecting Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities. Proceedings of The 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2022.
  • Changhua Luo, Penghui Li, Wei Meng: TChecker: Precise Static Inter-Procedural Analysis for Detecting Taint-Style Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications. Proceedings of The 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2022.
  • Penghui Li, Yinxi Liu, Wei Meng: Understanding and Detecting Performance Bugs in Markdown Compilers. Proceedings of The 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), November 2021.
  • Mingxue Zhang, Wei Meng: JSISOLATE: Lightweight In-Browser JavaScript Isolation. Proceedings of The 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), August 2021.

  • CSAW 2016 Applied Research Competition Top 10 Finalist for Wei Meng, Byoungyoung Lee, Xinyu Xing, Wenke Lee, "TrackMeOrNot: Enabling Flexible Control on Web Tracking", Cyber Security Awareness Week, New York, NY, USA, 2016
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award for Wei Meng, "GPU-based NDN Name Lookup System", Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2012