Yaru Yang ☕️

Yaru Yang

Tsinghua University

Professional Summary

Yaru Yang is a PhD student at Tsinghua University, majoring in Cyberspace Security. His research focuses on cellular network security, including IMS security, femtocell security, and core network security. His work has been published or accepted at leading academic conferences such as NDSS, IEEE S&P, DSN, and WiSec. He is also a CTF player and the former captain of Team Redbud, focusing on pwn, reverse, and misc challenges. He has won awards at competitions such as GeekPwn, GeekCon, WACON, and XCTF.

Education

PhD Cyberspace Security (in progress)

2022-09-01 - 2027-07-01

Tsinghua University

BS Computer Science

2017-09-01 - 2022-07-01

Tsinghua University

High School

2014-09-01 - 2017-07-01

Chengdu No.7 High School (Gaoxin Campus)

Interests

Cellular Network Security IoT Security Binary Security
Publications
(2025). Invade the Walled Garden: Evaluating GTP Security in Cellular Networks. IEEE S&P ‘25.
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(2024). Uncovering Security Vulnerabilities in Real-world Implementation and Deployment of 5G Messaging Services. WiSec ‘24.
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(2022). HDiff: A Semi-automatic Framework for Discovering Semantic Gap Attack in HTTP Implementations.. DSN ‘24.
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