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.

Our AnBridge paper got accepted to DSN 2026.
Oct 2026Our DisTrust paper got accepted to DSN-W 2026.
May 2026Our Bootloader SoK paper got accepted to IEEE S&P 2026.
Feb 2026Our Cosseter paper got accepted to IEEE S&P 2026.
Feb 2026Our Unit Proof Work paper got accepted to ICSE 2026.
Oct 2025Our TypeFlexer paper got accepted to RAID 2025.
Jun 2025Our LEMIX paper got accepted to USENIX Security 2025.
Jun 2025Our FlexGE paper got accepted to DIMVA 2025.
Feb 2025Our MadCap paper got accepted to CODASPY 2025.