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

Linux Security Summit Europe 2024
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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.
Black Hat USA 2022

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.
ACL 2023

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.
ISSRE

Hidden-in-Wave: A Novel Idea to Camouflage AI-Synthesized Voices Based on Speaker-Irrelative Features

Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Xuan Hai, Qingchen Yu, Qingguo Zhou

Co-first Author

  • Invalidated all existing methods for synthetic voice detection.

🔨 Projects

RISC-V
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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.
Mirror
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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.