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Research on vulnerability discovery, automated repair, systems security, and LLM-based security agents.

by Zheng Yu

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Patch Validation in Automated Vulnerability Repair arXiv 2603.06858 Zheng Yu, Wenxuan Shi, Xinqian Sun, Zheyun Feng, Meng Xu, Xinyu Xing Paper arXiv Code
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pPatch: Automated Vulnerability Unpatching ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2026 Tianyi Jing, Pengyu Ding, Meng Xu, Yinhao Hu, Zheng Yu, Dongliang Mu Paper
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PortGPT: Towards Automated Backporting Using Large Language Models IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2026 Zheng Yu, Zhaoyang Li, Jingyi Song, Meng Xu, Yuxuan Luo, Dongliang Mu Generated Patches Have Been Merged into Linux 6.1. Paper Code
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PatchAgent: A Practical Program Repair Agent Mimicking Human Expertise USENIX Security Symposium 2025 (Long Presentation) Zheng Yu, Ziyi Guo, Yuhang Wu, Jiahao Yu, Meng Xu, Dongliang Mu, Yan Chen, Xinyu Xing DARPA AIxCC Finalist / CSAW 25 ARC Runner-up / Generated Patches Have Been Used in Production. Paper Slides Code USENIX Poster CSAW Poster
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ShadowBound: Efficient Heap Memory Protection Through Advanced Metadata Management and Customized Compiler Optimization USENIX Security Symposium 2024 Zheng Yu, Ganxiang Yang, Xinyu Xing Paper Code Slides
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LLM-Fuzzer: Scaling Assessment of Large Language Model Jailbreaks USENIX Security Symposium 2024 Jiahao Yu, Xingwei Lin, Zheng Yu, Xinyu Xing Geekcon 2023 Annual Breakthrough Awards / Integrated into Microsoft Azure PyRIT Paper Code Slides
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CAMP: Compiler and Allocator-based Heap Memory Protection USENIX Security Symposium 2024 Zhenpeng Lin, Zheng Yu, Ziyi Guo, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Xinyu Xing Paper Code Slides
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FIRST: Exploiting the Multi-Dimensional Attributes of Functions for Power-Aware Serverless Computing IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2023 Lu Zhang, Chao Li, Xinkai Wang, Weiqi Feng, Zheng Yu, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Pu Yang, Shang Yue Paper