Wende Tan
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twd2 at 163 dot com * twd2 dot me at gmail dot com * QQ: 459834574 * Telegram: twd_22
https://twd2.me * https://github.com/twd2
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BASICS
    Name: Wende Tan
    Gender: Male
    Birthdate: 1997

SKILLS
    Languages: English (CET-6), Mandarin (native)
    Programming Languages: Assembly (x86, x86-64, RISC-V), C, C++, C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, SystemVerilog, VB.net, Verilog, VHDL
    Programming Environments / Tools: Altium Designer, Bash, GCC, ISE, Linux, LLVM, macOS, Qt, Quartus, Visual Studio, Vivado, Windows

EDUCATION
    Ph.D. Degree, Tsinghua University. Sept 2019 -- July 2024 (expected)
    Major in Computer Science and Technology
    VUL337 Team, Network and Information Security Lab (NISL)
    GPA of degree courses: 3.86 / 4.00 (96.52%) Rank: 13 / 141 (9.22%)

    Bachelor of Engineering, Tsinghua University. Sept 2015 -- July 2019
    Major in Computer Science and Technology
    GPA of first 3 years: 3.59 / 4.00 (89.75%)  Rank: 16 / 144 (11.11%)
    GPA of major courses: 3.888 / 4.000 (97.2%) Rank: 2 / 140 (1.43%)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
    * System Security
      * Hardware-Software Co-design Defenses
      * Side Channel
    * Cybersecurity
    * Computer Networks
    * Computer Architecture

PUBLICATIONS
    > Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IDvZ0CcAAAAJ
    > dblp: https://dblp.org/pid/228/6653.html
    > Yang Lan, Di Jin, Zhun Wang, * Wende Tan * , Zheyu Ma, Chao Zhang. Thunderkaller: Profiling and Improving the Performance of Syzkaller. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023.
    > * Wende Tan * , Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu, Yu Ding, Chao Zhang. PTStore: Lightweight Architectural Support for Page Table Isolation. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
    > Yuan Li, * Wende Tan * , Zhizheng Lv, Songtao Yang, Mathias Payer, Ying Liu, Chao Zhang. PACMem: Enforcing Spatial and Temporal Memory Safety via ARM Pointer Authentication. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022.
    > * Wende Tan * , Yuan Li, Chao Zhang, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu. ROLoad: Securing Sensitive Operations with Pointee Integrity. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021.
    > Jia-Ju Bai, Julia Lawall, * Wende Tan * , Shi-Min Hu. DCNS: Automated Detection Of Conservative Non-Sleep Defects in the Linux Kernel. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2019.
    > Yu-Ping Wang, Xu-Qiang Hu, Zi-Xin Zou, * Wende Tan * , Gang Tan. IVT: An Efficient Method for Sharing Subtype Polymorphic Objects. In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages Volume 3 Issue OOPSLA, October 2019.
    > Yu-Ping Wang, * Wende Tan * , Xu-Qiang Hu, Dinesh Manocha, Shi-Min Hu. TZC: Efficient Inter-Process Communication for Robotics Middleware with Partial Serialization. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.

WORKSHOPS
    > Yu-Ping Wang, * Wen-De Tan * , Shi-Min Hu. Efficient Inter-Process Communication Framework for Robotics Middleware. In The Fourth Workshop on Smart Robotics, Computational Visual Media Conference, 2018.

PATENTS
    > Chao Zhang, * Wende Tan * , Yuan Li, Jianping Wu. A hardware-assisted software security protection method, device, and medium. Chinese Patent, 2023.
    > Chao Zhang, * Wende Tan * , Yuan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu. Sensitive data reading method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium. Chinese Patent, 2022.
    > Chao Zhang, * Wende Tan * , Yuan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu. Software protection method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium. Chinese Patent, 2021.

SERVICES
    Leader of Attack and Defense Research Group in VUL337 Team. Feb 2023 -- July 2024 (expected)
    Teaching Assistant of Computer Network Principles (2020 Fall, undergraduates' major course)
        Supervised 18 outstanding students to finish the challenging hardware IPv4 router project.
        The project includes a homemade RISC-V processor with RV32I support and a forwarding engine with four one-gigabit ports wire-speed forwarding capability.  They achieved forwarding tables sized 8,000+ IPv4 prefixes on average.
    Teaching Assistant of Computer Network Principles (2021 Fall, undergraduates' major course)
        Supervised 6 outstanding students to finish the challenging hardware IPv6 router project.
        The project includes a homemade RISC-V processor with RV32I support and a forwarding engine with four one-gigabit ports wire-speed forwarding capability.  The best group achieved forwarding tables sized 8,000+ IPv6 prefixes.
    Teaching Assistant of Computer Network Principles (2022 Fall, undergraduates' major course)
        Supervised 12 outstanding students to finish the challenging hardware IPv6 router project.
        The project includes a homemade RISC-V processor with RV32I support and a forwarding engine with four one-gigabit ports wire-speed forwarding capability.  The best group achieved forwarding tables capable of handling the complete IPv6 routing table (164,423 prefixes).
    Contributor of Widely-Used Open-Source Software Projects
        I have several patches accepted by the Linux, LLVM, and gem5 communities.
    Member of the User Representative Committee of Information Technology at Tsinghua University

SELECTED PROJECTS
    Vijos 2: A free online judge system. Core Developer and Ops. Jul 2012 -- Aug 2015
        Technologies: MongoDB, PHP
        Got positive responses from users.
        Not Open Source
    vj4: A free online judge system, replacement of Vijos 2. Core Developer and Ops. Aug 2015 -- Now
        Technologies: MongoDB, Python
        Got positive responses from users.
        GitHub: https://github.com/vijos/vj4
        GitHub: https://github.com/vijos/jd4
    WOW_CROW: A somatic game on FPGA. Architect and Developer. May 2017 -- Jun 2017
        Pure hardware implementation.
        Technologies: UART, SD card support
        Classmates like it.
        GitHub: https://github.com/Colin97/WOW_CROW
    FPGA-NAT64: A four-10gbe-port dual-stack router with IPv4 and IPv6 translation support. Sept 2019 -- Dec 2019
        GitHub: https://github.com/twd2/fpga-nat64

HONORS AND AWARDS
    * 2022 * Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 3000 CNY
    * 2021 * Siebel Scholar, Class of 2022 ---awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to over 90 top students from the world's leading graduate schools
    * 2019 * Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award
    * 2018 * The CCF (China Computer Federation) Elite Collegiate Award
    * 2018 * Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, 10000 CNY
    * 2018 * Tsinghua CTF Competition (THUCTF), Rank 6
    * 2017 * Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 3000 CNY
    * 2016 * 第三十三届全国部分地区大学生物理竞赛非物理类A组, 2nd prize
    * 2016 * Network Information Security Competition (Tongji CTF 2016), with Yanqiao ZHU, 1st place

APPENDIX: RELEVANT COURSES
        Course
            Grade  Grade Point
    * Autumn 2015 *
        Calculus A (1)
              A-       3.7
        Linear Algebra (1)
              A+       4.0
        Discrete Mathematics (1)
              A-       3.7
        Fundamentals of Programming
              A-       3.7
        Computer Science: An Overview
              A        4.0
    * Spring 2016 *
        Calculus A (2)
              A-       3.7
        Linear Algebra (2)
              A        4.0
        Physics for Scientists and Engineers B (1)
              A-       3.7
        Discrete Mathematics (2)
              B+       3.3
        Foundation of Object-Oriented Programming
              A-       3.7
    * Autumn 2016 *
        Programing and Training
              A+       4.0
        Introduction to Complex Analysis
              A        4.0
        Physics for Scientists and Engineers B (2)
              A+       4.0
        Lab. of Physics B (1)
              A        4.0
        Data Structures
              A-       3.7
        Fundamentals of Electronics
              A        4.0
        Experiment of Fundamentals electronics
              A-       3.7
    * Spring 2017 *
        Probability and Statistics
              A        4.0
        Lab. of Physics B (2)
              B+       3.3
        Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
              A-       3.7
        Digital Logic Circuit
              A-       3.7
        Digital Logic Experimentation
              A        4.0
        Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
              A        4.0
        Formal Language and Automation
              A-       3.7
    * Autumn 2017 *
        Assembly Language Programming
              A        4.0
        Java Program Design and Training
              A        4.0
        Principles of Signal Processing
              A-       3.7
        Software Engineering
              A        4.0
        Principles and Practice of Compiler Construction
              A        4.0
        Computer Organization
              A        4.0
        Theory of Computer Network
              A        4.0
        Computer Network Security Technology
              A+       4.0
    * Spring 2018 *
        Numerical Analysis
              A        4.0
        Elementary Number Theory
              A        4.0
        Operating Systems
              A        4.0
        Computer Architecture
              A-       3.7
        Storage Technology Foundations
              A        4.0
    * Autumn 2018 *
        Professional Practice
              A-       3.7
        Programming Languages Laboratory
              A        4.0
        Embedded System
              A        4.0
        Network Security Engineering and Practice
              A        4.0
        Network Engineering Design
              A        4.0
    * Spring 2019 *
        Bachelor Thesis
              A+       4.0
    * Autumn 2019 *
        Advanced Computer Network
              A-       4.0
        Foundations and Frontiers of Cyberspace Security
              A-       4.0
        High-Performance Router Architecture and High-speed Networking Technologies
              A+       4.0
        Software Vulnerability Discovery and Exploits
              A        4.0
    * Spring 2020 *
        Data Security
              A+       4.0
        Algorithms and Its Complexity Theory
              B        3.3
        Advanced Operating Systems
              A-       4.0
        Introduction to Distributed Systems
              A+       4.0
    * Autumn 2021 *
        Combinatorics
              A-       4.0