Chenke Luo

Postdoctral Fellow at Tulane University

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Skills

Binary Analysis - 100 %

Malware Analysis - 100 %

Automated Binary Deobfuscation - 90 %

ROP Attacks & Defenses - 80 %

Fine-Grained Code Randomization - 70 %

Code Re-Randomization - 70 %

Execute-only Memory (XoM) - 100 %

Binary Diffing - 80 %

Award

First Prize

The 10th National College Student Information Security Contest (Jul. 2017)

Champion

Xi Pu Cup "Iron Man Triathlon" in Information Security (Individual Track) (Jun. 2017)

Runner-up

ZCTF Substation Competition of the XCTF International Competition (Mar. 2017)

Second Prize

Finals of the "Iron Man Triathlon" in Information Security (Sept. 2017)

Third Place

Red Hat Cup Cyber Security Attack and Defense Competition (May 2017)

Fifth Place

Finals of "Wending Cup" National Cyber Security & Confidentiality Skills Competition (Dec. 2016)

Sixth Place

HITB GSEC CTF International Competition (Aug. 2017)

Chenke Luo's CV

I am currently a Postdoctral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University. Proficient in reverse engineering techniques with experience in penetration testing and binary vulnerability exploitation. Familiar with various stages of the cyber kill chain and corresponding defense methods. Skilled in C/C++ programming and knowledgeable in assembly language across different platforms. Experienced in application development on both Windows and Linux platforms. Capable of developing operating system kernels based on the Linux kernel and customizing compilers using LLVM and GCC.

Education

Cyberspace Security (PhD)

Wuhan University ( Wuhan, Hebei, China ) 2020 - 2024

One of the founders of NEX, the university's first CTF (Capture The Flag) team.
Recommended for admission to pursue an MS degree at Wuhan University.

Cyberspace Security (MS)

Wuhan University ( Wuhan, Hebei, China ) 2018 - 2020

Transitioned to a Ph.D. program in the third year.

Information Security (BS)

Northeastern University ( Shenyang, Liaoning, China ) 2014 - 2018

Visiting Scholar at Tulane University (Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2024).

Publications

Reverse Engineering of Obfuscated Lua Bytecode via Interpreter Semantics Testing

Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

Chenke Luo, Jiang Ming, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng, Zhetao Li

vol. 18, pp. 3891-3905, 2023 . doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3289254

Retrofitting XoM for Stripped Binaries without Embedded Data Relocation

The Network and Distributed System Security 2025 (NDSS '25)

Chenke Luo, Jiang Ming, Mengfei Xie, Guojun Peng, Jianming Fu

PtrProxy: Efficient Code Re-Randomization on AArch64 Platform

China Communications

Chenke Luo, Jianming Fu, Jiang Ming, Mengfei Xie, Guojun Peng

2024 . doi: 10.23919/JCC.ja.2024-0077

PointerScope: Understanding Pointer Patching for Code Randomization

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

Mengfei Xie, Yan Lin, Chenke Luo, Guojun Peng, Jianming Fu

vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 3019-3036, 2023 . doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2022.3203043

JTaint: Finding Privacy-Leakage in Chrome Extensions

Proceedings of the 25th Australasia Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP '20)

Mengfei Xie, Jianming Fu, Jia He, Chenke Luo, Guojun Peng

pp. 563-583, 2020 . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55304-3_29

An Anti-cheat Method of Game Based on Windows Kernel Events

Journal of Electronics and Information Technology

Jianming Fu, Zheng Yang, Chenke Luo, Jianwei Huang

vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 2117-2125, 2020 . doi: 10.11999/JEIT190695

Anti-Reverse-Engineering Tool of Executable Files on the Windows Platform

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC)

Chenke Luo, Feng Yuan, Qiyuan Gao, Jiateng Yang, Jian Xu

2017 . doi: 10.1109/CSE-EUC.2017.158

Projects

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61972297)

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62172308)

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62172144)

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62272351)

National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFB3101201)

National Science Foundation (NSF) (2312185)

National Science Foundation (NSF) (2417055)

Peer Review

Reviewer for Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ)

Reviewer of International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

External Reviewer for USENIX Security 2025

External Reviewer for USENIX Security 2024

External Reviewer for USENIX Security 2021

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