Florida International University

Weidong Zhu

Assistant Professor

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Keywords

System Security Software Security Data Storage Technologies
Formal Methods Malware Analysis Cryptography
LLMs

Biography

Dr. Weidong Zhu is an assistant professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences in Florida International University. His research focuses on system security, with an emphasis on security and privacy protections in storage system, ransomware defense, trustworthy computing, software security, and hardware security. He received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer & Information Security & Engineering at the University of Florida in 2025 advised by Dr. Kevin Butler and Dr. Sara Rampazzi. Before that, he received his master degree from Xiamen University in 2019 and got his bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016.