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Danfeng Zhang

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
308 Research Drive Box 90129, Durham, NC 27704

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Computer Science · 2024 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Scholarly Works


Characterizing Trust Boundary Vulnerabilities in TEE Container Systems: An Empirical Study

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering · June 30, 2026 Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have become a cornerstone of confidential computing, attracting significant attention from academia and industry. To support secure and scalable application deployment on confidential clouds, TEE containers (Tc ... Full text Cite

Agora: Trust Less and Open More in Verification for Confidential Computing

Journal article Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · October 9, 2025 Confidential computing (CC), designed for security-critical scenarios, uses remote attestation to guarantee code integrity on cloud servers. However, CC alone cannot provide assurance of high-level security properties (e.g., no data leak) on the code. In t ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Collaborative Proposal: SaTC: Frontiers: Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

CAREER: Building Secure Applications with Non-Static Information Flow Policies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026

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Education


Cornell University · 2015 Ph.D.

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