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 -> LLVM IR) and its downstream applications (e.g., vulnerability detection, de-obfuscation, agent harnessing). I am actively involved in the Clearblue research project.

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

Publications

1. 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).
2. 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.