Kha Dinh Duy
Postdoctoral Researcher, Systopia Lab, University of British Columbia
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Systopia Lab, University of British Columbia, supervised by Professor Aastha Mehta. I received my Ph.D. at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, advised by Prof. Hojoon Lee at the System Security Lab.
My research sits at the intersection of operating system design and software security, focusing on software compartmentalization, practical defenses against side-channel attacks, and automated program analysis.
I am particularly interested in principled yet practical approaches for secure system design: compartmentalization that works at the hardware boundary, obfuscation that holds under real-world side-channel models, and analysis techniques that scale to systems software.
duykha.dinh (at) ubc (dot) ca
News
- Dec 2025 PIM-ORAM accepted for publication at ACSAC 2025.
- Apr 2025 IncognitOS accepted to IEEE S&P 2025.
- Dec 2024 RustSan accepted for publication at USENIX Security 2024.
- Nov 2023 Capacity received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2023.
Selected Publications
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PIM-ORAM: Practical ORAM with Processing-in-Memory
ACSAC 2025 -
IEEE S&P 2025
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RustSan: Retrofitting AddressSanitizer for Efficient Sanitization of Rust
USENIX Security 2024 -
Capacity: Cryptographically-Enforced In-Process Capabilities for Modern ARM Architectures
ACM CCS 2023 Distinguished Paper
awards
- 2025 Noteworthy Reviewer Recognition, USENIX Security Artifact Evaluation
- 2024 Korean Government BK21 Research Scholarship
- 2023 Distinguished Paper Award, ACM CCS
community service
- 2025 Artifact Evaluation Committee: USENIX Security '25, ACM CCS '25
- 2025 Poster Program Committee: ACM CCS '25