Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside, USA (2018-2024)
Advisor: Zhiyun Qian
Focus: Operating System Security, LLMs for Security, Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution, Static Analysis - M.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2015-2018)
Advisor: Ting Liu
Focus: Concurrency Security, Symbolic Execution - B.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2011-2015)
Professional Experience
- Security Researcher, HarmonyOS System Security Team, Huawei, China (2024-present)
Focus: HarmonyOS Security, Fuzzing, LLMs for Security, Static Analysis - Research Intern, Systems Security and Privacy Research Group, Microsoft Research, USA (2023)
Mentor: Weidong Cui
Focus: LLMs for Security - Research Intern, Android Security Team, Google, USA (2022)
Mentor: Kris Alder
Focus: Linux/Android Kernel Security, Fuzzing, Static Analysis - Graduate Student Researcher, Center for Research and Education in Cyber Security and Privacy (CRESP), University of California, Riverside, USA (2018-2024)
Advisor: Zhiyun Qian
Focus: Operating System Security, LLMs for Security, Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution, Static Analysis - Research Assistant, Ministry of Education Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2013-2018)
Advisor: Ting Liu
Focus: Concurrency Security, Symbolic Execution
Awards and Honors
- CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award
- Laxmi Bhuyan Fellowship Award, UC Riverside (2024)
- Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award, UC Riverside (2024)
- IEEE S&P Student Travel Grant (2023)
- Google Research Paper Rewards (2023)
- The Linux Foundation’s Travel Fund (2023)
- QRS 2021 Best Paper Award
- Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside (2018)
- Excellent Graduated Student, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2018)
- And more…
Academic Service
- Program Committee: CCS 2026, FORGE@ICSE 2025/2024, MSR 2024 (Junior PC)
- Reviewer: TIFS 2024/2023, TOSEM 2025, EAI SecureComm 2023
- Sub-Reviewer: S&P 2025/2024/2021/2020, CCS 2024, USENIX Security 2025/2021, NDSS 2025/2021/2020
- Artifact Evaluation Committee: EuroSys 2023, ISSTA 2024, ECOOP 2024