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Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Purdue University, Aug 2021 - Present
• B.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University, Sep 2017 - Jun 2021

Work experience

• Fall 2020: Research Assistant
  • Nanjing University (NJUNLP Group)
  • Project: source code - abstract syntax tree contrastive learning
  • Supervisor: Professor Shujian Huang

Publications

ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment

Xu, X., Su, Z., Guo, J., Zhang, K., Wang, Z., & Zhang, X. (2024). ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12882.

CodeArt: Better Code Models by Attention Regularization When Symbols Are Lacking

Su, Z., Xu, X., Huang, Z., Zhang, Z., Ye, Y., Huang, J., & Zhang, X. (2024). Codeart: Better code models by attention regularization when symbols are lacking. Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, 1(FSE), 562-585.

Source Code Foundation Models are Transferable Binary Analysis Knowledge Bases

Su, Z., Xu, X., Huang, Z., Zhang, K., & Zhang, X. (2024). Source Code Foundation Models are Transferable Binary Analysis Knowledge Bases. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19581.

When Dataflow Analysis Meets Large Language Models

Wang, C., Zhang, W., Su, Z., Xu, X., Xie, X., & Zhang, X. (2024). When Dataflow Analysis Meets Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10754.

Improving binary code similarity transformer models by semantics-driven instruction deemphasis

Xu, X., Feng, S., Ye, Y., Shen, G., Su, Z., Cheng, S., ... & Zhang, X. (2023, July). Improving binary code similarity transformer models by semantics-driven instruction deemphasis. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (pp. 1106-1118).

Symbol Preference Aware Generative Models for Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary

Xu, X., Zhang, Z., Su, Z., Huang, Z., Feng, S., Ye, Y., ... & Zhang, X. (2023). Symbol Preference Aware Generative Models for Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02546.

Teaching

CS592 AI and Security

CS510 Software Engineering

CS250 Computer Architecture

Service

• Subreviewer
  • International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023
  • International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (ICSE-CAIN), 2024
  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
  • International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
  • International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2023, 2024