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 2025. Please check details here.
News
[Teaching] Xi serves as the instructor of CS 5220 Computer Communication.
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!
[Service] Xi serves as the mentor for the CyberTruck Challenge event, supporting student research and creation.
[Talk] Xi gives a talk at US CYBER COMMAND Tech Talk. Talk topic: "A Landscape of Security in Embedded Systems".
[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!
[Teaching] Xi serves as the instructor of CS 2160 Comp Org & Assembly Language and CS 4910 Intro to Computer Security.
[Service] Xi serves as a reviewer of TCPS 2025.
[Teaching] Xi serves as the instructor of CS 5220 Computer Communication.
[Service] Xi serves as a committee member of the UCCS PhD Cybersecurity program.
[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]!