Hi, I’m currently a third-year PhD student in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University (ZJU), and expected to get the PhD degree in 2027. I’m co-advised by Prof. Wei Dong (董玮) and Prof. Yi Gao (高艺). I work closely with Prof. Borui Li (李博睿) and Prof. Jiamei Lv (吕嘉美). Prior to that, I received my B.E. degree from the School of Electronics and Information Engineering in Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU), Hangzhou, 2022, advised by Prof. Long Chen (陈龙).

My research interests mainly focus on IoT Systems & Security, Edge Computing, and Deduplication/Incremental Updates.

Research Overview:

• IoT Security
  • Programming methods for TEE-enabled IoT devices: [IPSN’24] dTEE
  • Secure inference: [CCS’25] TensorShield
• OTA/Incremental Updates
  • Deduplication: [ATC’24] [ToS’25] SimEnc
  • Mobile application updates: [TMC’24] sdiff, [INFOCOM’24] MDiffPatch

E-mail: <tongsun 🤯 zju [dot] edu [dot] cn> & <asckw30 🤯 gmail [dot] com>

Our Lab: EmNets research group

🔥 News

📝 Publications

2025

• ACM CCS'25

    TensorShield: Safeguarding On-Device Inference by Shielding Critical DNN Tensors with TEE
  Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Hailong Lin, Borui Li, Yixiao Teng, Yi Gao, and Wei Dong.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 13-17, 2025.
  Acceptance Rate (Cycle A): 12.5% (102 out of 816).
  CCF-A. THCPL-A. CORE A*.
  [paper | web | code | slides]

• ACM TOS'25

    Exploiting Multiple Similarity Spaces for Deduplication of Encrypted Container Images
  Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Borui Li, Jiamei Lv, Yi Gao*, and Wei Dong*.
  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS).
  CCF-A. THCPL-A.
  [paper | web | code]

2024

• IEEE TMC'24

    Understanding Differencing Algorithms for Mobile Application Updates
  Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Lewei Jin, Wenzhao Zhang, Yi Gao, Zhendong Li, and Wei Dong*.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
  IF=7.7, CAS Q1, JCR Q1.
  CCF-A. THCPL-A.
  [paper | web | code]

• USENIX ATC'24

    SimEnc: A High-Performance Similarity-Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images
  Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Borui Li, Jiamei Lv, Yi Gao*, and Wei Dong*.
  Proceedings of the 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Santa Clara, CA, USA. July 10–12.
  Acceptance Rate: 15.8% (77 out of 488). 🏆 Best Storage Related Paper (3/77)
  CCF-A. THCPL-A. CORE A. Best Storage Related Paper
  [paper | web | code | slides | video]

• ACM/IEEE IPSN'24

    dTEE: A Declarative Approach to Secure IoT Applications Using TrustZone
  Tong Sun, Borui Li, Yixiao Teng, Yi Gao, and Wei Dong*.
  Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Hong Kong, China. May 13-16.
  Acceptance Rate: 21.5% (20 out of 93).
  CCF-B. THCPL-A. CORE A*.
  [paper | web | slides]

• IEEE INFOCOM'24

    Exploiting Multiple Similarity Spaces for Efficient and Flexible Incremental Update of Mobile Apps
  Lewei Jin, Wei Dong*, Bowen Jiang, Tong Sun, and Yi Gao*.
  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada. May 20-23.
  Acceptance Rate: 19.6% (256 out of 1307).
  CCF-A. THCPL-A. CORE A*.
  [paper | web]

🔍 Academic Services

• Technical Program Committee: ACM EuroSys 2026 (Shadow), IEEE DIKW 2025
• Program Committee for Artifact Evaluation: USENIX OSDI 2025, USENIX ATC 2025, USENIX FAST 2026, ACM CCS 2025
• Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE 2024, TJS 2025, IJDSA 2025
• Conference Reviewer: IEEE HPCC 2024
• External Reviewer: IEEE TPDS 2024, ACM TheWebConf/WWW 2024, Chinese Journal of Computers 2023, IEEE MASS 2023-2025

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.11:  National Scholarship (Award Rate: ～0.2% nation-wide) (国家奖学金), Ministry of Education, China, 2024
• 2024.11:  Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Merit Graduate Student Award, and Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre at Zhejiang University (浙江大学优秀研究生，五好研究生，优秀研究生干部), 2024
• 2024.08:  One of the Three Best Storage Related Papers in USENIX ATC 2024
• 2023.11:  Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Merit Graduate Student Award, and Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre at Zhejiang University (浙江大学优秀研究生，五好研究生，优秀研究生干部)，2023
• 2022.06:  Zhejiang Province Outstanding Graduate Award (浙江省优秀毕业生)
• 2022.06:  Hangzhou Dianzi University Outstanding Graduate Award (杭州电子科技大学优秀毕业生)
• 2021.11:  National Scholarship (Award Rate: ～0.2% nation-wide) (国家奖学金), Ministry of Education, China, 2021
• 2021.07:  1st Prize in the “10th Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Smart Car Contest” (第十届浙江省大学生智能汽车竞赛一等奖, 教育部全国大学生A类学科竞赛)
• 2021.05:  Meritorious Winner in the “Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM 2021)” (美国大学生数学建模竞赛M奖)
• 2020.10:  2nd Prize in the “2020 Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest” (浙江省电子设计竞赛二等奖, 教育部全国大学生A类学科竞赛)
• 2020.08:  1st Prize in the “15th National Undergraduate Smart Car Contest” (第十五届全国大学生智能汽车竞赛一等奖, 教育部全国大学生A类学科竞赛) | [video]
• 2020.07:  1st Prize in the “9th Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Smart Car Contest” (第九届浙江省大学生智能汽车竞赛一等奖, 教育部全国大学生A类学科竞赛)
• 2020.11:  Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship (Award Rate: ～3% province-wide) (浙江省政府奖学金), 2020
• 2019.11:  Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship (Award Rate: ～3% province-wide) (浙江省政府奖学金), 2019

📖 Educations

• 2022.06 - Now, Zhejiang University
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Yi Gao and Prof. Wei Dong)
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Hangzhou Dianzi University
  • B.E. in Electronic and Information Engineering (GPA: 4.63/5, Rank: 3/364)

💬 Invited Talks

• 2024.07, [USENIX ATC’24 - Security 1 Session] SimEnc: A High-Performance Similarity-Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images, Santa Clara, USA. | [video]
• 2024.05, [ACM/IEEE IPSN’24 - Privacy/Security Session] dTEE: A Declarative Approach to Secure IoT Applications Using TrustZone, Hong Kong, China.

🧱 Patents

• Zhendong Li, Wei Dong, Lewei Jin, Tong Sun, Jia Chang. 数据更新的方法、装置、设备及计算机可读存储介质[P]. 中国专利: CN2023108756139. 2025.01.14. (已公开)
• Wei Dong, Bowen Jiang, Yi Gao, Tong Sun. 一种面向容器仓库中加密镜像的文件去重方法和装置[P]. 中国专利: CN2024103753035. 2024.06.11. (已公开)

💻 Internships

• 2022.09 - 2023.11, Huawei. “Over-The-Air Differencing Algorithm Optimization Technology(差分OTA优化技术)”, Excellent Completion(优秀结题).

📞 Contact

• ✉️ <tongsun 🤯 zju [dot] edu [dot] cn> & <asckw30 🤯 gmail [dot] com>
• 💬 WeChat ID: suntong30
• 🏠 Room 301, Zetong Building, Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.