Scholar
Zijie Zhao
Google Scholar ID: vvACBhAAAAAJ
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
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Publications
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'KNighter: Transforming Static Analysis with LLM-Synthesized Checkers' at SOSP 2025.
- Published 'Kernelgpt: Enhanced kernel fuzzing via large language models' at ASPLOS 2025.
- Co-authored work 'WaVe: a verifiably secure WebAssembly sandboxing runtime' received Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2023.
- Discovered multiple security vulnerabilities, including Firefox CVE-2020-26960 (awarded $1,000 bug bounty) and several Linux kernel CVEs.
- Identified critical bugs in the Aptos Move project, such as Nested borrow, Operand order, and others.
Education
- Received bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego; pursuing a PhD at the PL/FM/SE group, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Lingming Zhang.
Background
- Passionate about fuzzing and broadly interested in software engineering and testing, focusing on combining traditional techniques with powerful, rapidly evolving LLMs. Currently a third year PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Miscellany
- No specific hobbies or interests mentioned.
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