Scholar
Yizheng Chen
Google Scholar ID: dxz-lQYAAAAJ
University of Maryland
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,251
H-index
14
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received several awards including ACM CCS Best Paper Award Runner-up, Google ASPIRE Award, NSF CAREER award, and Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Published multiple papers such as 'Locus: Agentic Predicate Synthesis for Directed Fuzzing', 'Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?', etc.
Research Experience
- Leads a research group at the University of Maryland, College Park, focusing on enabling AI Coding Assistants to generate secure and correct code, benchmarking and building LLM agents to detect and patch security vulnerabilities, and the security and privacy issues of AI Agents.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (advisor information not provided); Postdoc at UC Berkeley and Columbia University.
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Research focuses on Large Language Models for Code Generation and AI for Security.
Miscellany
- Recruiting PhD students. Email: yzchen [at] umd [dot] edu
