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 Researcher Sen Nie and Qiyi Tang. Specifically, I am working on BCSA researches.

news

Apr 19, 2025 Our paper “LLM-CompDroid: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Bugs in Android Apps with Pre-trained Large Language Models” has been accepted to TOSEM!
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!

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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  2. TOSEM
    LLM-CompDroid: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Bugs in Android Apps with Pre-trained Large Language Models
    Zhijie Liu, Yutian Tang†*, Meiyun Li, Xin Jin, Yunfei Long, and 2 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025

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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