Profile

Qihang Zhou received the Ph.D degree in Cyberspace Security from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She is working as a postdoctor in the Institute of information engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Her research interests include system security, virtualization security, container security and mobile security.

Education & Work Experience

2022.11 - , Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research associate

2017.09 - 2022.07, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D

2013.09 - 2017.07, Dalian Maritime University, B.E

Book

深入探析：Linux系统虚拟化原理、实现与安全 (The Principle, Implementation, and Security of Linux Virtualization). Forthcoming

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Paper

RContainer: A Secure Container Architecture through Extending ARM CCA Hardware Primitives. Qihang Zhou , Wenzhuo Cao, Xiaoqi Jia, Peng Liu, Shengzhi Zhang, Jiayun Chen, Shaowen Xu, Zhenyu Song. (NDSS’2025)

Unicontainer: Unlocking the Potential of Unikernel for Secure and Efficient Containerization. Zhicong Zhang, Qihang Zhou, Shaowen Xu, Nan Jiang, Weijuan Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia. (SIGMETRICS’2025)

Chameleon: Towards Building Least-privileged TEE via Functionality-based Resource Re-grouping. Nan Jiang, Qihang Zhou, Feifan Qian, Jiayun Chen, Heqing Huang, Xiaoqi Jia, Haichao Du. (Mobisys’2025)

CubeVisor: A Multi-realm Architecture Design for Running VM with ARM CCA. Jiayun Chen, Qihang Zhou , Xiaolong Yan, Nan Jiang, Xiaoqi Jia, Weijuan Zhang. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2024 (ACSAC’2024 )

ConMonitor: Lightweight Container Protection with Virtualization and VM Functions. Shaowen Xu, Qihang Zhou , Zhicong Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Donglin Liu, Heqing Huang, Haichao Du, Zhenyu Song. The 15th Symposium on Cloud Computing 2024 ( SOCC’2024 )

HClave: An isolated execution environment design for hypervisor runtime security. Qihang Zhou , Wenzhuo Cao, Xiaoqi Jia, Shengzhi Zhang, Jiayun Chen, Nan Jiang, Weijuan Zhang, Haichao Du, Zhenyu Song, Qingjia Huang. ( Computers & Security 2024 )

SEDSpec: Securing Emulated Devices by Enforcing Execution Specification. Yang Chen, Shengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Qihang Zhou, Heqing Huang, Shaowen Xu, Haichao Du. The 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks 2024 ( DSN’2024 )

vASP: Full VM Life-cycle Protection Based on Active Security Processor Architecture. Jiayun Chen, Qihang Zhou , Weijuan Zhang, Nan Jiang, Yamin Xie and Xiaoqi Jia The 24th IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2024 ( CCGrid’2024 )

SeChannel: A Secure and Lightweight Channel Protection Approach for TEE Systems. Nan Jiang, Yuanbo Zhao, Qihang Zhou , Xiaoqi Jia, Jing Tang. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications ( TrustCom’2024 )

LightArmor: A Lightweight Trusted Operating System Isolation Approach for Mobile Systems. Nan Jiang, Qihang Zhou , Xiaoqi Jia, Qingjia Huang, Haichao Du. IFIP International Information Security Conference 2024 ( IFIP SEC’2024 )

SummSlim: A Universal and Automated Approach for Debloating Container Images. Zhicong Zhang, Heqing Huang, Shaowen Xu, Qihang Zhou, Tianshu Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Weijuan Zhang。 The 30th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2024 ( ICPADS’2024)

Log2Policy: An Approach to Generate Fine-Grained Access Control Rules for Microservices from Scratch. Shaowen Xu, Qihang Zhou , Heqing Huang, Xiaoqi Jia, Haichao Du, Yang Chen, Yamin Xie. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2023 ( ACSAC’2023 )

Refining Use-after-free Defense: Eliminating Dangling Pointers in Registers and Memory. Xun An, Qihang Zhou , Haichao Du, Zhenyu Song, Xiaoqi Jia. Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference 2023 ( APSEC’2023 )

Non‑transferable blockchain‑based identity authentication. Yuxia Fu, Jun Shao, Qingjia Huang, Qihang Zhou, Huamin Feng, Xiaoqi Jia, Ruiyi Wang, Wenzhi Feng. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 2023 ( PPNA’2023 )

SecFortress: Securing Hypervisor using Cross-layer Isolation. Qihang Zhou, Xiaoqi Jia, Shengzhi Zhang, Nan jiang, Jiayun Chen, Weijuan Zhang. In the 36th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium 2022 ( IPDPS’2022 )

Protecting Virtual Machines against Untrusted Hypervisor on ARM64 Cloud Platform. Qihang Zhou, Xiaoqi Jia, Nan jiang. In the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2022 ( ICC’2022 )