Welcome to the PurS3 Lab

The goal of Purdue Systems and Software Security Lab (PurS3) is to secure modern systems by providing principled yet practical solutions to various security problems.

We are looking for passionate new Ph.D students, interns, and Master students to join the team (more info) !

We work on all kinds of systems, including Mobile, IoT, TrustZone, etc. Our research spans various areas such as Vulnerability detection and Mitigating, Secure system development, Hardware Security, Type-safe languages, Software Diversity, and, Rehosting, to name a few.

Our home is Purdue Univerisity, one of the leaders in security research and education.

We are grateful for funding from following sponsors.

Amazon and NSF

News

Oct 2026

Our AnBridge paper got accepted to DSN 2026.

Oct 2026

Our DisTrust paper got accepted to DSN-W 2026.

May 2026

Our Bootloader SoK paper got accepted to IEEE S&P 2026.

Feb 2026

Our Cosseter paper got accepted to IEEE S&P 2026.

Feb 2026

Our Unit Proof Work paper got accepted to ICSE 2026.

Oct 2025

Our TypeFlexer paper got accepted to RAID 2025.

Jun 2025

Our LEMIX paper got accepted to USENIX Security 2025.

Jun 2025

Our FlexGE paper got accepted to DIMVA 2025.

Feb 2025

Our MadCap paper got accepted to CODASPY 2025.

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