Xiangmin Shen

Northwestern Lab for Internet and Security Technology (LIST)

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3410 Mudd Hall

2233 Tech Dr, 3rd Floor

Evanston, IL 60208

I’m a final year PhD candidate working with Prof. Yan Chen at Northwestern University Computer Science Department. I am broadly interested in system security and security measurement. My current research focuses on enhancing system security by applying AI techniques in defense and offense.

news

Feb 16, 2025 We are pleased to announce the release of PentestAgent, an LLM-driven automated penetration testing framework. :tada::tada: Feel free to try out the tool, share your thoughts, and let us know if you run into any issues. If you find PentestAgent useful, do give it a star on GitHub. :star::star:
Feb 04, 2025 Our poster “LLM-Driven Automated Exploit Assessment for Penetration Testing” is accepted to appear in NDSS’25. :tada::tada:
Aug 30, 2024 Our paper “Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection” is accepted by NDSS’25. :tada::tada:
Dec 19, 2023 Our paper “Decoding the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation: An Analysis of EDR Performance in Real-World Environments” is accepted by AsiaCCS’24. :tada::tada:

selected publications

  1. NDSS
    Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection
    Xiangmin Shen*Lingzhi Wang* , Weijian Li , Zhenyuan Li, R Sekar , and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025
  2. AsiaCCS
    Decoding the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation: An Analysis of EDR Performance in Real-World Environments
    Xiangmin ShenZhenyuan Li, Graham Burleigh , Lingzhi Wang, and Yan Chen
    Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2024