
Xiang Chen 谌翔
PhD student in CSE, HKUST
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
- The 1st International Workshop on Language Models and Programming Languages (LMPL '25)
- 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
Recent Posts
2024 Annual ReviewDecember 30, 2024
IntTracer for ICSE SRC ‘24January 14, 2024
OSPP 2023: Optimizing LLVM InstCombine PassSeptember 6, 2023
Goshawk Tutorial for AsiaCCS ‘23April 12, 2023