PhD Student Hao Ling Wins Prestigious Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2024 for Breakthrough in Memory Sanitization Technology

CSE PhD student Hao LING, supervised by Prof. Charles ZHANG, has won the Best Paper Award at the ASPLOS 2024, the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in San Diego, the United States.

Titled "GIANTSAN: Efficient Memory Sanitization with Segment Folding," the work is a breakthrough in memory sanitization technology that offers effective and efficient runtime memory safety for software systems, greatly enhancing their health and security. The paper proposes the segment folding technique to summarize the memory masks for location-based sanitization, offering constant-time memory status prediction and significantly reducing the runtime overhead caused by sanitization. The work is invited to be merged into the LLVM compiler framework, one of the mostly used compiler systems in the world.

ASPLOS is the premier academic forum for multidisciplinary computer systems research spanning hardware, software, and their interaction. It began in 1982 and has helped usher in more than a decade of highly vibrant computer architecture research and innovation. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past two decades (e.g., RISC and VLIW processors, RAID) ASPLOS 2024 features 193 research paper talks (selected from 922 submissions), 6 of which are awarded as the best paper.

CSE PhD student Hao Ling (center)

Certificate for the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in 2024.