Secure and Reliable System Research Lab
Dr. Xi Tan is the director of the lab. She is an Assistant Professor int the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS).
We have RA openings starting from Fall 2026. Please check details here.
News
[Research] Our paper entitled "Microft: Exploring and Mitigating Cross-state Control-flow Hijacking Attacks on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security'25!
[Research] Laura Mimm joined our lab as a Research Assistant!
[Service] Join us for the 1st ever UCCS Hacking Training. Xi will lead an informal session where she will train UCCS students on cybersecurity basics.
[Research] Our paper entitled "'We just did not have that on the embedded system': Insights and Challenges for Securing Microcontroller Systems from the Embedded CTF Competitions" will appear in ACM CCS'25!
[Research] Himaja Ryali joined our lab as a Research Assistant!
[Award] Aryan got the EAS O'Neil Award!
[Research] Xi receives the Committee on Research and Creative Works (CRCW) award. Thanks to co-PI Dr. Fuzhen Yin and the UCCS CRCW committee for their support!
[Research] Aryan Padiyal joined our lab as a Research Assistant!
[Job] Xi joined the University of Colorado Colorado Springs as an Assistant Professor!
[Paper] New paper entitled "SoK: Where's the “up”?! A Comprehensive (bottom-up) Study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M Systems" will appear in USENIX WOOT '24! Check out the open-source repo [here]!
[Award] Xi won the 2nd place of Russell L. Agrusa CSE Student Innovation Competition!
[Paper] New paper entitled "Is the Canary Dead? On the Effectiveness of Stack Canaries on Microcontroller Systems" will appear in SAC'24!
[Paper] New paper entitled "SHERLOC: Secure and Holistic Control-Flow Violation Detection on Embedded Systems" will appear in CCS'23! Check out the open-source repo [here]!