Experience

Education

  • 2024
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2018 - 2024
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • 2017
    Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, 2013 - 2017
    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shan'xi, China

Work

  • 2023
    Research Intern, 05/2023 - 08/2023
    Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA.
    • Worked on LLMs for reverse engineering with Jonathan Larson, Weiwei Yang, and Mike Walker.
  • 2022
    PhD Research Intern, 05/2022 - 08/2022
    Cisco Research, Remote
    • Worked on building holistic attack graphs for edge computing with Dr. Ashish Kundu.

Professional Services

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member
    • The special event of AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE), 2024
    • International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC), 2023
    • ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), Artifact Evaluation, 2023
  • Reviewer
    • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2023
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2023
    • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022, 2023
    • EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2023
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2023
    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2023
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023
  • External Reviewer
    • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022
    • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2022
    • USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2021, 2022
    • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020
    • European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2022
    • Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021, 2022

Selected Talks and Presentations

    • Can Large Language Models Help Us Reverse Engineer Binary Code Semantics?, Microsoft Research, 2023.
    • Predicting Function Names in Stripped Binaries via Context-Sensitive Execution-Aware Code Embeddings, ACM CCS, 2022.

Honors and Awards

    • Excellent Graduate (top 5.8% of Northwestern Polytechnical University), 2017.
    • Chinese National Scholarship (top 1.4% by Ministry of Education, China), 2016, 2015, 2014.
    • Outstanding Prize Scholarship (top 0.1% of Northwestern Polytechnical University), 2015.
    • Championship at item "Fira football", Chinese Robot Competition, 2015
    • Championship at item "Grabbing ball", International Underwater Robot Competition, 2015