Biography

I am a second-year PhD 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 -> EIR -> HIR) and its downstream applications (e.g., bug detection, understanding, agent harnessing). I am actively involved in the Clearblue research project where I work around a LLVM-based binary lifter.

In my spare time, I enjoy playing basketball, video gaming, hiking, and cooking.

Publications

1. Xiang Chen. 2026. Towards Reliable Binary Lifting. Survey for PhD Qualifying Exam (PQE).
2. Xiang Chen, Anshunkang Zhou, Chengfeng Ye, and Charles Zhang. 2025. ClearAgent: Agentic Binary Analysis for Effective Vulnerability Detection. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Language Models and Programming Languages (LMPL ‘25).
3. Xiang Chen. 2024. IntTracer: Sanitization-aware IO2BO Vulnerability Detection across Codebases. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE SRC ‘24).

Full list of publications at Google Scholar.