Cen Zhang
Scholar

Cen Zhang

Google Scholar ID: Vy2-YDoAAAAJ
Research Fellow of Nanyang Technological University
FuzzingTestingVulnerability
Citations & Impact
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Citations
874
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
18
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published papers in top-tier conferences such as USENIX Security, NDSS, ICSE, etc.; Received multiple academic awards including 1st place in AIxCC competition, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards of ASE 2023 and ICSE 2024, 2021 Most Influential Research Paper of Ant Finance, and 1st Award of Prototype Competition, Free Style Track, NASAC (ChinaSoft) 2019.
Research Experience
  • Served as the Java bug finding team leader of Team-Atlanta, winning 1st place in AIxCC Competition with $4,000,000 award; Worked as Project Co-Investigator for some research projects and mentored several Ph.D. students.
Education
  • Postdoctoral researcher at SSLab@Gatech under the supervision of Prof. Taesoo Kim; Previously a postdoc and Ph.D. student at CCDS, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) under the guidance of Prof. Liu Yang since 2019.
Background
  • Research interests: building tools for vulnerability detection. Specializes in fuzz driver generation, firmware analysis, model-based vulnerability detection, and general fuzzing improvements.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not mentioned