Xiang Chen 谌翔

Bio

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Charles Zhang. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor’s (2021) and Master’s (2024) degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Currently my research interests focus on Binary Lifting (Binary -> Assembly -> LLVM IR) and its downstream applications (Bug detection, Decompilation, Agentic Tooling). I devote myself to the Clearblue research project while playing Capture-The-Flag in spare time.

Details at CV.

Publications

• ClearAgent: Agentic Binary Analysis for Effective Vulnerability Detection
  Xiang Chen, Anshunkang Zhou, Chengfeng Ye, Charles Zhang
  The 1st International Workshop on Language Models and Programming Languages (LMPL '25)

• IntTracer: Sanitization-aware IO2BO Vulnerability Detection across Codebases
  Xiang Chen
  The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Student Research Competition (ICSE SRC '24)

Full list here.

Services

• Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC): USENIX Sec ‘25, PLDI ‘25, OSDI ‘25, CCS ‘25, NDSS ‘26, IEEE S&P ‘26
• Sub-Reviewer: TSE ‘25

Awards

• ICFP/SPLASH ‘25 Registration Grant from AWS, 2025
• HKUST Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS), 2024 - now
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Graduate (<10%), 2024
• DEFCON CTF 30 Second place (played with Katzebin), 2022
• Zhiyuan Honor Bachelor Degree (Cum Laude, <1%), 2021
• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (<5%), 2021

Teaching

• HKUST Firebird CTF Team Coach, 2025 - now
• HKUST COMP3021: Java Programming TA, 2025
• SJTU IS308: Computer System Security TA, 2023
• SJTU NIS7021: Software and System Security TA, 2022
• SJTU MA267: Mathematical Analysis TA, 2020