I obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Lanzhou University in 2023, under the guidance of Associate Professor Xin Liu (刘新).
I ventured into the field of security halfway through. Moreover, I am also intrigued by system research, especially the kernel and related areas.
The experience gained from my recent Linux kernel trimming project sparked my curiosity about Linux kernel.
I enjoy contributing to open-source projects. Here is a list of patches I’ve submitted (it may not always be up to date).
My research interest includes kernel, cyber security, as well as performance analysis and tuning.
📝 Publications

Safer Seccomp: Dead Syscalls Elimination
Yuan Tan, Zhangjin Wu, Xiao Liu
- Contributed kernel patches to Linux. Discovered excitement and passion around kernels.
- Utilized compiler directives to establish reference relationships for all orphaned sections.
- The excessive use of ‘KEEP()’ in the Linux kernel can be eliminated using the above method.
- Made the elimination of unused system calls possible through the construction of references between segments.
- Reduced the size of the kernel image by 7%.
- Reduced the attack surface that prevents attackers from exploiting trimmed syscalls.
- The early version has received positive feedback from the maintainer.

Human or Not: Can You Really Detect the Fake Voices?
Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Rui Chong, Xiaokang Zhou
Co-first Author
- Introduced SiF-DeepVC, an innovative voice clone attack framework.
- Enhanced AI-synthesized speech to appear more “human” by merging real voice features with synthetic ones.
- Rendered all existing methods for synthetic speech detection ineffective.
- The first to underscore the formidable challenge of detecting AI-synthesized speech.
- Was responsible for implementing the attack framework, reproducing existing detectors, and evaluating them.

Not The End of Story: An Evaluation of ChatGPT-Driven Vulnerability Description Mappings
Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Zhenghang Xiao, Jianwei Zhuge, Rui Zhou
- Initiated a series of experiments that assessed ChatGPT’s performance across diverse cybersecurity domains.
- Provided evidence that ChatGPT could not accurately classify CVEs.

Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Xuan Hai, Qingchen Yu, Qingguo Zhou
Co-first Author
- Invalidated all existing methods for synthetic voice detection.
ACM MM '23
SiFDetectCracker: An Adversarial Attack Against Fake Voice Detection Based on Speaker-Irrelative Features, Xuan Hai, Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Qingguo ZhouACM MM '24
What’s the Real: A Novel Design Philosophy for Robust AI-Synthesized Voice Detection, Xuan Hai, Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Gang Liu, Song Li, Weina Niu, Rui Zhou, Xiaokang ZhouICME '24
Ghost-in-Wave: How Speaker-Irrelative Features Interfere DeepFake Voice Detectors, Xuan Hai, Xin Liu, Zhaorun Chen, Yuan Tan, Song Li, Weina Niu, Gang Liu, Rui Zhou, Qingguo ZhouHITB ASIA '24
Yes, I Am Human: Breaking Fake Voice Detection with Speaker-Irrelative Features, Xuan Hai, Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Song Li, Qingguo ZhouFuture Generation Computer Systems
Novel supply chain vulnerability detection based on heterogeneous-graph-driven hash similarity in IoT, Guodong Ye, Xin Liu, Siqi Fan, Yuan Tan, Qingguo Zhou, Rui Zhou, Xiaokang Zhou
🔨 Projects

Design and Tape-out a RISC-V CPU
Zecheng Liang, Zhe Sun, Yihua Lu, Ren Wei, Yuan Tan, Xun Li, Lingzhuang Zhang, Yang Yu
- Handled an instruction decoder as part of a project seeking to design and tape-out a RISC-V CPU.
- Gained an understanding of how the CPU works and heightened interest in RISC-V and system research.

Optimize and Maintain Open Source Mirror Site of Lanzhou University
Yuan Tan
- Took primary responsibility for maintaining the mirror, the most utilized repository in the northwest of China.
- Facilitated traffic defense against malicious attackers who excessively downloaded files, abusing the service.
📝 Blog
Articles in English
Articles in Chinese
📖 Educations
- 2018.09 - 2023.07, Undergraduate, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou Univeristy. Average score 84/100, ranking top 10%.
- 2020.01, Academic Visit, National University of Singapore. Perspective course on Artificial Intelligence.
💻 Internships
- 2023.07 - 2023.09, Tinylab, a community that has merged 300+ patches into the kernel.