Debin Gao

Debin Gao is Full-Time Faculty & Associate Professor of Computer Science ,as well as, Faculty Manager, Singapore Management University. Having obtained his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Debin focuses his research on software and systems security. In recent years, Debin also actively participates in research of mobile security, cloud security, and human factors in security. Debin is the program committee co-chair of international conference ICICS 2021. He's the recipient of the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship in year 2017.

Research interests

• Mobile security
• Software security
• Computer security

Education

• PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, 2006
• Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, 2004
• Bachelor of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2001

Selected publications

UIPDroid: Unrooted Dynamic Monitor of Android App UIs for Fine-Grained Permission Control
Mulin Duan, Lingxiao Jiang, Lwin Khin Shar, and Debin Gao
In Proceedsings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), Pittsburgh, USA, May 2022

Chosen-Instruction Attack Against Commercial Code Virtualization Obfuscators
Shijia Li, Chunfu Jia, Pengda Qiu, Qiyuan Chen, Jiang Ming, and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022, San Diego, USA, April 2022

ReSIL: Revivifying Function Signature Inference using Deep Learning with Domain-Specific Knowledge
Yan Lin, Debin Gao, and David Lo
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2022), Baltimore, USA, Apr 2022

On the Usability (In)Security of In-App Browsing Interfaces in Mobile Apps
Zicheng Zhang, Daoyuan Wu, Lixiang Li, and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2021), San Sebastian, Spain, October 2021

An Exploratory Study of Social Support Systems to Help Older Adults in Managing Mobile Safety
Tamir Mendel, Debin Gao, David Lo, and Eran Toch
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (Mobile HCI 2021), September 2021

Active Warden Attack: On the (In)Effectiveness of Android App Repackage-Proofing
Haoyu Ma, Shijia Li, Debin Gao, Daoyuan Wu, Qiaowen Jia, and Chunfu Jia
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), July 2021

Secure Repackage-Proofing Framework for Android Apps using Collatz Conjecture
Haoyu Ma, Shijia Li, Debin Gao, and Chunfu Jia
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), June 2021

On the Effectiveness of Using Graphics Interrupt as a Side Channel for User Behavior Snooping
Haoyu Ma, Jianwen Tian, Debin Gao, and Chunfu Jia
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), June 2021

When Program Analysis Meets Bytecode Search: Targeted and Efficient Inter-procedural Analysis of Modern Android Apps in BackDroid
Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao, Robert H. Deng, and Rocky K. C. Chang
In Proceedings of the 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021), Jun 2021

When Function Signature Recovery Meets Compiler Optimization
Yan Lin and Debin Gao
In Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2021), May 2021

Scalable Online Vetting of Android Apps for Measuring Declared SDK Versions and Their Consistency with API Calls
Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao, and David Lo
In Proceedings of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 2021), Jan 2021

Deep-Learning-Based App Sensitive Behavior Surveillance for Android Powered Cyber-Physical Systems
Haoyu Ma, Jianwen Tian, Kefan Qiu, David Lo, Debin Gao, Daoyuan Wu, Chunfu Jia, and Thar Baker
In Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII 2020), November 2020

Walls Have Ears: Eavesdropping User Behaviors via Graphics-Interrupt-Based Side Channel
Haoyu Ma, Jianwen Tian, Debin Gao, Chunfu Jia
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Security (ISC 2020), November 2020

AppMoD: Helping Older Adults Manage Mobile Security with Online Social Help
Zhiyuan Wan, Lingfeng Bao, Debin Gao, Eran Toch, Xin Xia, Tamir Mendel, and David Lo
In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT 2019, Issue 4), September 2020