Hi, I’m currently a fourth-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).
I work on systems and security for AIoT, with a focus on system software for confidential computing in IoT.
Research Overview:
I’m currently working on the following directions:
- Generative safe OS with confidential computing support for IoT — Toward automatically constructing a secure-by-default OS and toolchain for TEE-enabled IoT devices.
- LLM-assisted secure application development: frameworks that help developers build TEE-based secure IoT applications correctly [IPSN’24, dTEE].
- Real-time, cloud–edge–end collaborative confidential AI inference — Key techniques for low-latency and privacy-preserving inference on IoT devices with TEE support [CCS’25, TensorShield] [ICML’26, RTInfer].
I used to work on (and still build upon) the following topics:
- Delta compression / differencing algorithms for software updates
- Container Deduplication: [ATC’24, SimEnc], [TOS’25, SimEnc+]
- Mobile APP updates: [TMC’26, EncDiffPatch], [TMC’24, sdiff], [INFOCOM’24, MDiffPatch]
E-mail: <tongsun 🤯 zju [dot] edu [dot] cn> & <asckw30 🤯 gmail [dot] com>
Our Lab: EmNets research group
🔥 News
- 2026.05: 😃 Our work RTInfer is accepted to ICML 2026, congrats to Renjie! See you in Seoul.
- 2026.04: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of USENIX OSDI 2026.
- 2026.04: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of ACM CCS 2026.
- 2026.04: 😃 Our work EncDiffPatch is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, congrats to Lewei!
- 2025.12: 🏆 Selected into the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Youth Talent Support Program for PhD Students 中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划 !
- 2025.12: 🏆 Received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the Youth Student Basic Research Program 国家自然科学基金博士生基金 !
- 2025.11: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of USENIX Security 2026.
- 2025.08: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026.
- 2025.06: 😃 Invited to serve on the Shadow PC of ACM EuroSys 2026.
- 2025.05: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of ACM CCS 2025.
- 2025.05: 🎉🎉 Our work TensorShield is accepted to ACM CCS 2025. Thanks to all collaborators! See you in Taipei.
- 2025.05: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of USENIX FAST 2026.
- 2025.05: 😃 Invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE DIKW 2025.
- 2025.05: 😃 Invited to be the reviewer of International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.
- 2025.04: 😃 Invited to serve on the AEC of USENIX OSDI 2025 and USENIX ATC 2025.
- 2025.03: 🎉🎉 Our work SimEnc is selected as one of the Best Storage Related Papers (3/77≈3.9%) of USENIX ATC'24 for fast-track publication in ACM Transactions on Storage. Thanks to all collaborators!
- 2025.02: 😃 Invited to be the reviewer of The Journal of Supercomputing.
- 2024.11: 🏆 Received the 2024 National Scholarship!
- 2024.09: 😃 Invited to be the reviewer of IEEE HPCC 2024.
- 2024.09: 😃 Invited to be the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- 2024.05: 🎉🎉 Our work sdiff is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Thanks to all collaborators!
- 2024.05: 🎉🎉 Our work SimEnc is accepted to USENIX ATC 2024. Thanks to all collaborators! See you in Santa Clara.
- 2024.01: 🎉🎉 Our work dTEE is accepted to ACM/IEEE IPSN 2024. Thanks to all collaborators! See you in Hong Kong.
- 2023.12: 😃 Our work MDiffPatch is accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2024, congrats to Lewei!
📝 Publications
(*Corresponding Author)
[CCF] China Computer Federation Ranking; [TH-CPL] Tsinghua-Computer Science Preferred List; [CORE] CORE Conference Ranking
2026
[C5] RTInfer: Exploiting Concurrency for Multiple Real-Time DNN Inference on Edge GPUs
[J3] Efficient Incremental Updates for Encrypted Mobile Apps
[J4] 物联网机密感知计算
2025
[C4] TensorShield: Safeguarding On-Device Inference by Shielding Critical DNN Tensors with TEE
[J2] Exploiting Multiple Similarity Spaces for Deduplication of Encrypted Container Images
2024
[C3] SimEnc: A High-Performance Similarity-Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images
[J1] Understanding Differencing Algorithms for Mobile Application Updates
[C2] dTEE: A Declarative Approach to Secure IoT Applications Using TrustZone
[C1] Exploiting Multiple Similarity Spaces for Efficient and Flexible Incremental Update of Mobile Apps
🔍 Academic Services
Program Committee
Technical Program Committee
Artifact Evaluation
Reviewer
Journal
Conference / External
💰 Grants
Research on Efficient Confidential Inference for Large Models with Cloud-Edge Collaboration
国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目(博士研究生), 项目负责人
Principles and Construction Methods for Ubiquitous and Trusted IoT Operating System
国家自然科学基金重大研究计划培育项目, 主要成员
Research on IoT Interaction Technologies Driven by Elastic Edge Intelligence
国家自然科学基金面上项目, 主要成员
Research and Application Demonstration of Key Technologies for Low-Power IoT Real-Time Communication Protocols for Large-Scale Dense Deployment
浙江省科技厅“尖兵”“领雁”研发攻关计划项目, 主要成员
Over-The-Air Differencing Algorithm Optimization Technology
浙江大学-华为合作项目, 主要成员
🎖 Honors and Awards
Youth Talent Support Program for PhD Students
Best Presentation Award
Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre at Zhejiang University
National Scholarship Award Rate: ~0.2% nation-wide
Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Merit Graduate Student Award, and Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre at Zhejiang University
One of the Three Best Storage Related Papers in USENIX ATC 2024
Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Merit Graduate Student Award, and Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre at Zhejiang University
Zhejiang Province Outstanding Graduate Award
Hangzhou Dianzi University Outstanding Graduate Award
National Scholarship Award Rate: ~0.2% nation-wide
1st Prize in the "10th Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Smart Car Contest"
Meritorious Winner in the "Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM 2021)"
2nd Prize in the "2020 Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest"
1st Prize in the "15th National Undergraduate Smart Car Contest" video
1st Prize in the "9th Zhejiang Province Undergraduate Smart Car Contest"
Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship Award Rate: ~3% province-wide
Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship Award Rate: ~3% province-wide
📖 Educations
2022.06 - Now, Zhejiang University
- Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
2018.09 - 2022.06, Hangzhou Dianzi University
- B.E. in Electronic and Information Engineering
💬 Invited Talks
TensorShield: Safeguarding On-Device Inference by Shielding Critical DNN Tensors with TEE
Online
SimEnc: A High-Performance Similarity-Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images
Santa Clara, USA video
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.