Publications

You can find my full publications list on my Google Scholar profile

Selected Publications

Beyond End-to-End Success: Diagnosing Failures in Long-Horizon Security LLM Agents  

Wei Shao, Chongzhou Fang, Zuxiong Tan, Zequan Liang, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, and Houman Homayoun
arXiv preprint, 2026
[paper] | [slides]

Kumo: A Security-Focused Serverless Cloud Simulator

Wei Shao, Khaled Khasawneh, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, and Chongzhou Fang
IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2026
[paper] | [slides]

Bit of a Close Talker: A Practical Guide to Serverless Cloud Co-Location Attacks

Wei Shao, Najmeh Nazari, Behnam Omidi, Setareh Rafatirad, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Houman Homayoun, and Chongzhou Fang
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026
[paper] | [slides]

Know Me by My Pulse: Toward Practical Continuous Authentication on Wearable Devices via Wrist-Worn PPG

Wei Shao, Zequan Liang, Ruoyu Zhang, Ruijie Fang, Ning Miao, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, and Chongzhou Fang
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026
[paper] | [slides]