91制片厂

A team of students from the 91制片厂 (91制片厂) finished third at New York University鈥檚 .

Held Nov. 9 to 11, the event is the largest and longest-running hardware security competition, featuring competitors from colleges and universities across the globe. It is an educational, research-oriented tournament aimed at hacking into the听hardware of embedded systems.

Timothy Harry 鈥�18, Ethan Stewart 鈥�18 and Joshua Kuun 鈥�18, all students in 91制片厂鈥檚 , were part of the team that took the bronze prize in a field that featured multiple teams with master鈥檚 and doctoral students.

Stewart says the team learned a lot about defense mechanisms currently in use by industry, and he credits his team鈥檚 success to long hours of preparation.

鈥淚 think one of the things that set us apart was how well we knew our work,鈥� says Stewart. 鈥淭his directly helped us in comparison to some other teams that did similar work but did not spend as much time with the ins and outs of their submission.鈥�

Zhiming Zhang, a second-year master鈥檚 student who was part of the third place team a year ago, was also part of the team this year during the qualifying round of the competition.

The event was won by a team from the University of Texas. The third-place 91制片厂 finish marks the third straight year a Wildcats team has placed third.

, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and the team鈥檚 advisor, says the team was more independent in its work with less technical guidance provided than in previous years.

鈥淭his is a big achievement,鈥� says Yu. 鈥淚 am so proud of seeing that we are the only team that is among the top three teams in the consecutive three years.鈥�

The 91制片厂 team was one of 12 teams from multiple nations selected for the final round. They qualified for the finals with a report that documented attacks on the programmable logic controller and a countermeasure implementation that included attack detection, isolation and mitigation tactics. The final round required an eight-page report, poster presentation and demonstration of attacks and countermeasures before judges and competition organizers.