Weidong Zhu, Wenxuan Bao, Vincent Bindschaedler, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin R. B. Butler. Enabling Plausible Deniability in Flash-based Storage through Data Permutation. In Proceedings of 41st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2025.
Weidong Zhu, Carson Stillman, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Butler. Enabling Secure and Efficient Data Loss Prevention with a Retention-aware Versioning SSD. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025.
Weidong Zhu, Grant Hernandez, Washington Garcia, Dave (Jing) Tian, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Butler. Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense. In ACM Transactions on Storage, 2025.
Blow David, Adnan Abdullah, Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Md Jahidul Islam, and Sara Rampazzi. Detection and Localization of Acoustic Vulnerabilities of Underwater Data Centers for Remote Surveillance. SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2025.
Weidong Zhu. Leveraging Storage Semantics to Enhance Data Security and Privacy. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Doctoral Symposium, 2024.
Nathaniel Bennett, Weidong Zhu, Benjamin Simon, Ryon Kennedy, William Enck, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin Butler. RANsacked: A Domain-Informed Approach for Fuzzing LTE and 5G RAN-Core Interfaces. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024.
Weidong Zhu, Grant Hernandez, Washington Garcia, Hunter Searle, Dave (Jing) Tian, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Butler. Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense. In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2024.
Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Butler, Md Jahidul Islam, and Sara Rampazzi. AquaSonic: Acoustic Manipulation of Underwater Data Center Operations and Resource Management. In Proceedings of 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2024.
Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah, Kevin Butler, Md Jahidul Islam, and Sara Rampazzi. Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers? In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2023.
Suzhen Wu, Chunfeng Du, Weidong Zhu, Hong Jiang, Bo Mao, and Lingfang Zeng. EaD: ECC-assisted Deduplication with High Performance and Low Memory Overhead for Ultra-Low Latency Flash Storage. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2022.
Daniel Olszewski, Weidong Zhu, Sandeep Sathyanarayana, Kevin Butler and Patrick Traynor. HallMonitor: A Framework for Identifying Network Policy Violations in Software. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022.
Weidong Zhu and Kevin Butler. NASA: NVM-Assisted Secure Deletion for Flash Memory. In Proceedings of ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2022.
Grant Hernandez, Marius Muench, Tyler Tucker, Hunter Serle, Weidong Zhu, Patrick Traynor and Kevin Butler. Emulating Samsung’s Baseband for Security Testing. BlackHat USA, 2020.
Suzhen Wu, Jindong Zhou, Weidong Zhu, Hong Jiang, Zhijie Huang, Zhirong Shen, and Bo Mao. EaD: a Collision-free and High Performance ECC assisted Deduplication Scheme for Flash Storage. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.
Suzhen Wu, Weidong Zhu, Yingxin Han, Hong Jiang, Bo Mao, Zhijie Huang, and Liang Chen. GC-Steering: GC-aware Request Steering and Parallel Reconstruction Optimizations for SSD-based RAIDs. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2020.
Suzhen Wu, Weidong Zhu, Bo Mao, Kuan-Ching Li. PP: Popularity-based Proactive Data Recovery for HDFS RAID Systems. Future Generation Computer Systems. September 2018.
Suzhen Wu, Weidong Zhu, Guixin Liu, Hong Jiang, and Bo Mao. GC-aware Request Steering with Improved Performance and Reliability for SSD-based RAIDs. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2018.