Zhijie Liu

CATLAB. A graduate student in Computer Science. ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong, Shanghai, China.

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SIST 1A-509

ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong

Shanghai, China

Hi, I’m Zhijie Liu. I’m now a graduate student studying in ShanghaiTech University, SIST SSC, under the supervision of Prof. Yutian Tang, Prof. Liangfeng Zhang (and Prof. Yuqi Chen, in the laboratory room). I am a member in CATLAB (and AS3R LAB). My research interests include program and binary analysis, BCSA, LLMs, malware detection, fuzzing, threat intelligence, etc.

Also, I am interning at Tencent Keen Lab, supervised under Tencent Security Researcher Sen Nie and Qiyi Tang. Specifically, I am working on BCSA researches.

I am seeking PhD opportunities for Fall 2025. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact me.

news

Mar 30, 2025 Our paper “KEENHash: Hashing Programs into Function-aware Embeddings for Large-scale Binary Code Similarity Analysis” has been accepted to ISSTA’25!
Jan 28, 2025 Our paper “Sweeping the Blockchain: Unmasking Illicit Accounts in Web3 Scams” has been accepted to Black Hat Asia 2025. Congrats Wenkai!
Oct 10, 2024 I was honored to receive the National Scholarship. Grateful to my supervisors and mentors for their guidance and support!
Oct 1, 2024 I was invited to join the Junior Program Committee of MSR 2025. Please consider submitting your paper!
Jul 6, 2024 Our latest research is reported on IEEE Specturm “How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really? Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations”!

selected publications

2025

  1. ISSTA’25
    KEENHash: Hashing Programs into Function-aware Embeddings for Large-scale Binary Code Similarity Analysis
    Zhijie Liu, Qiyi Tang, Sen Nie, Shi Wu, Liang Feng Zhang†, and 1 more author
    In The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2025
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2024

  1. TSE
    No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT
    Zhijie Liu, Yutian Tang†*, Xiapu Luo, Zhou Yuming, and Liang Feng Zhang†
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024
    arXiv
  2. TSE
    ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation
    Yutian Tang†*, Zhijie Liu, Zhichao Zhou, and Xiapu Luo
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024
    arXiv

2023

  1. ASE’23
    Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-granularity Malicious Components
    Zhijie Liu, Liang Feng Zhang†, and Yutian Tang†*
    In 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023
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