Biography

I am a ~~first~~ ~~second~~ ~~third~~ fourth year PhD Candidate at Duke University advised by Prof. Danfeng Zhang working on programming languages and security. I was a PhD student at Penn State before moving to Duke. I got my master's at Syracuse University in computer science advised by Prof. Kris Micinski.

Interests

Programming Language
Security
Information Flow

Education

Duke University
PhD in Computer Science, 2023-
Penn State University
PhD in Computer Science transferred, 2021- 2023
Syracuse University
M.S. in Computer Science, 2021

Timeline & Experiences

2023 August

Moved to Duke

2022 April

Passed Qualifying Exam

2021 Aug. - Now.

Research Assistant at Penn State

PL, Security

Advisor: Prof. Danfeng Zhang

2021 Sep. - 2021 Dec.

TA for CMPSC 461 programming language at PSU

2019 Dec. - 2021 May.

Research in PL at Syracuse University

-Working on master's thesis

Advisor: Prof. Kris Micinski

2016

Cubs won world series

Selected Publications

Declarative Demand-Driven Reverse Engineering.

Yihao Sun, Jeffrey Ching, Kristopher Micinski

NDSS BAR 2021

[ arXiv ]

Enhancing Usability Of Malware Analysis Pipelines With Reverse Engineering

Jeffrey Ching

Master's Thesis

[ pdf ]

Teaching

Penn state University

TA:CMPSC 461 Programming Language Concepts / FALL2021

Syracuse University

Athletes Academic Tutoring / 2019-2021