Scholar
Ying Zhang
Google Scholar ID: h6AkTC4AAAAJ
Wake Forest University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,262
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
14
Co-authors
11
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper accepted by TSE: “How Can ChatGPT Support Human Security Testers to Help Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks?”
- - Paper accepted to the AAAI 2026 Demonstration Track: “KnowThyself: An Agentic Assistant for LLM Interpretability”
- - OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant (Co-PI)
- - Paper accepted by USENIX Security '25 Posters: “Does Safe == Secure?: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Safe Rust”
- - Google Cloud Research Credits Award (Sole PI)
- - Student Ruicheng selected for the Wake Forest Research Fellowship (URECA) Award
Research Experience
- - Worked as a Trust Engineer at LinkedIn from 2023 to 2024
- - Interned at ByteDance's Application Security team during the summer of 2021, mentored by Dr. Yu Ding and Dr. Peng Li
Education
- - Ph.D. Degree: Graduated from Virginia Tech in 2023, supervised by Dr. Na Meng, and collaborated closely with Dr. Daphne (Danfeng) Yao
- - Master's Degree: Graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2018
- - Bachelor's Degree: Graduated from Northeastern University (China) in 2016
Background
- - Research Interests: Software Security and Software Engineering
- - Professional Field: Conducts empirical studies to explore the challenges in secure coding practices, and invents new tools using program analysis and large language models (LLMs) to reveal and mitigate vulnerabilities in open-source software applications
- - Brief Introduction: Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University, dedicated to bridging theoretical security knowledge with practical implementation and providing actionable guidance for secure software development
Miscellany
- - Looking for self-motivated students who are proficient in at least one programming language to join her research group
