Summary
Chengyu Song is an Assistant Professor at UC Riverside with 15 years of experience specializing in system and network security, focusing on malware, web security, intrusion detection, and botnets. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and earlier degrees from Peking University, blending deep academic rigor with practical research across industry internships at Microsoft, Samsung, and VMware. His work bridges software assurance, virtualization, operating systems, and compilers, enabling cross-layer approaches to hardening real-world systems. A long-time member of The Honeynet Project, he brings hands-on threat analysis perspective alongside formal research methods. Based in California, Chengyu has a track record of turning security insights from honeynets and lab deployments into actionable defenses and teaching that informs the next generation of researchers. Beyond publications, his background suggests a strong aptitude for building measurement-driven detection systems that close the gap between research prototypes and deployable security tools.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), System & Network Security, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), System & Network Security at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Peking University
English, Chinese