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⭐ News

• 2026.06: Our paper Sponge for adaptive value-flow path indexing is accepted to OOPSLA 2026!
• 2026.06: Our paper Mako for indirect call resolution is accepted to CCS 2026!
• 2025.01: Our paper Seal for kernel bug detection is accepted to EuroSys 2025!
• 2024.03: Our paper Siro for LLVM IR translation is accepted to ASPLOS 2024!
• 2023.09: I start to purse my PhD degree at CSE, HKUST again!
• 2023.07: 50+ patches we submitted to Linux are accepted!

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🧑‍💻 Biography

I am currently a PhD student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Charles Zhang. My research interests include software and system security.

Before that, I received my MPhil degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021, supervised by Prof. Shuai Wang. Prior to joining HKUST, I received my B.E. degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2019.

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📚 Publications

• SPONGE: Adaptive Boundary-Anchored Indexing for Online Value-Flow Queries
  Sixiang Peng, Chenyang Sun, Wei Chen, Bowen Zhang, and Charles Zhang. OOPSLA 2026 (CCF Rank A)
• MAKO: Refining Indirect-Call Targets with Type Relation Unfolding
  Yibo Jin, Wei Chen*, Bowen Zhang*, and Charles Zhang. CCS 2026 (CCF Rank A)
• SEAL: Towards Diverse Specification Inference for Linux Interfaces from Security Patches
  Wei Chen, Bowen Zhang, Chengpeng Wang, Wensheng Tang, and Charles Zhang. EuroSys 2025 (CCF Rank A)
• SIRO: Empowering Version Compatibility in Intermediate Representations via Program Synthesis
  Bowen Zhang, Wei Chen*, Peisen Yao, Chengpeng Wang, Wensheng Tang, and Charles Zhang. ASPLOS 2024 (CCF Rank A)

* means corresponding author.

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💼 Selected Experiences

• Research Assistant @ Prism Group, HKUST, supervised by Prof. Charles Zhang, 2021-2023
• System Security Intern @ KeenLab, Tencent, Analysis of Linux Kernel Crashes, 2021
• Research Intern @ The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. S.M. Yiu, 2018
• Software Engineer Intern @ Tencent, Android Runtime Hook Software Development Kit, 2017

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🏆 Selected Awards

• Postgraduate studentship, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2023-2025
• Postgraduate studentship, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019-2021
• Excellent graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2019
• National Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2017
• Outstanding Student of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2016, 2017, 2018

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🤝 Professional Service

• Program Committee Member, ICSE 2026 Shadow PC
• External Conference Reviewer, ICICS 2019, ICSE 2020, AsiaCCS 2021, RAID 2023, ICSE 2024, ISSTA 2024
• Artifact Evaluation Committee, ICSE 2019, ICSE 2020, USENIX 2020, ATC 2023, OSDI 2023, USENIX 2024
• Volunteer, Student Volunteer @ SPLASH 2025

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🐛 Found Bugs

• CVE Assigned: CVE-2024-26774, CVE-2023-52915, CVE-2023-1382, CVE-2023-28327, CVE-2023-28328, CVE-2023-2166, CVE-2023-2176, CVE-2023-2177, CVE-2023-2194

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📖 Teaching

• Cybersecurity (COMP 4634), Fall 2024
• Java Programming (COMP 3021), Spring 2024, Fall 2025
• Computer Organization (COMP 2611), Spring 2021
• Operating Systems (COMP 3511), Fall 2020

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