Bonan Ruan 阮博男

Ph.D. Candidate
School of Computing National University of Singapore
E-mail: bonan.ruan@u.nus.edu Scholar: Google Scholar GitHub | CV | Blog

Bonan Ruan (阮博男) is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Zhenkai Liang. His research sits at the intersection of LLM-based agent security, system security, and software security. He received his master's degree from NUS and his bachelor's degree from Tongji University. Before beginning his master's degree, he worked as a security researcher at Xingyun Lab of NSFOCUS, where he focused on cloud-native security research and the incubation of innovative security products, and co-authored the book Cloud Native Security: Practice and Architecture. His research has appeared at ASE, USENIX Security, ICLR, and RAID, and has received the Best Practical Paper Award at RAID and a Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security. He has also presented his work at Black Hat Asia, KCon, CIS, and OpenInfra Days Asia. He created Metarget, an open-source framework for automatically constructing vulnerable cloud-native infrastructures; the project has received more than 1,400 GitHub stars, is listed in the CNCF Cloud Native Landscape, and is used in industry.