I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Cyberspace, Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU). I received my Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Limin Sun. During my doctoral studies, I also worked as a visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Yi Li.

My research interests lie in software supply chain security, trustworthy AI, and automated vulnerability detection. I aim to develop intelligent and reliable approaches for analyzing, securing, and improving modern software systems, with a particular focus on AI-driven security analysis, vulnerability discovery, and trustworthy software ecosystems.

See my publication list for details. I am actively looking for self-motivated students and research collaborators interested in cybersecurity, AI, and software systems security. Please feel free to contact me via email if you are interested in my research.

🔥 News

• 2026.07: 🎉🎉 Distinguished paper award for FSE 2026!!
• 2025.12: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by the FSE 2026. Congrats, Jingdong!
• 2025.09: 🎉🎉 Two papers were accepted by the ASE 2025. One paper was accepted by the ToSEM 2025. Congrats, Siyuan!
• 2025.08: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by the TSE 2025. Congrats, Yiran!

📝 Publications

1. [FSE’2026] Jingdong Guo, Chaopeng Dong(co-first author), Yimo Ren, Siyuan Li, Jie Liu, Hong Li, Hongsong Zhu. Understanding Binary Code Similarity for Real-World Vulnerability Detection: A Large-Scale Empirical Study. In ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2026. (CCF-A, Distinguished Paper Award) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
2. [ASE’2025] Chaopeng Dong, Jingdong Guo, Shouguo Yang, Yi Li, Dongliang Fang, Yang Xiao, Yongle Chen, Limin Sun. Advancing Binary Code Similarity Detection via Context-Content Fusion and LLM Verification. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
3. [ASE’2025] Siyuan Li, Yaowen Zheng, Jingdong Guo, Chaopeng Dong, Chunpeng Yan, Weijie Wang, Yimo Ren, Limin Sun, Hongsong Zhu. Lares: LLM-driven Code Slice Semantic Search for Patch Presence Testing. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
4. [ToSEM’2025] Chaopeng Dong, Jingdong Guo, Shouguo Yang, Yang Xiao, Yi Li, Hong Li, Zhi Li, Limin Sun. PLocator: Fine-Grained Patch Presence Test in Binaries via Patch Code Localization. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
5. [TSE’2025] Yiran Cheng, Lwin Khin Shar, Ting Zhang, Shouguo Yang, Chaopeng Dong, David Lo, Shichao Lv,Zhiqiang Shi, Limin Sun. VERCATION: Precise Vulnerable Open-source Software Versions Identification based on Static Analysis and LLM. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
6. [NDSS’2025] Yongpan Wang, Hong Li, Xiaojie Zhu, Siyuan Li, Chaopeng Dong, Shouguo Yang, Kangyuan Qin. BinEnhance: An Enhancement Framework Based on External Environment Semantics for Binary Code Search. In Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
7. [ICSE’2025] Siyuan Li, Yuekang Li, Zuxin Chen, Chaopeng Dong, Yongpan Wang, Hong Li, Yongle Chen, Hongsong Zhu. TransferFuzz: Fuzzing with Historical Trace for Verifying Propagated Vulnerability Code. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
8. [ICSE’2024] Chaopeng Dong, Siyuan Li, Shouguo Yang, Yang Xiao, Yongpan Wang, Hong Li, Zhi Li, Limin Sun. LibvDiff: Library Version Difference Guided OSS Version Identification in Binaries. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2025. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
9. [ToSEM’2023] Shouguo Yang, Chaopeng Dong(co-first author), Yang Xiao, Yiran Cheng, Zhiqiang Shi, Zhi Li and Limin Sun. Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
10. [ToSEM’2023] Siyuan Li, Yongpan Wang, Chaopeng Dong, Shouguo Yang, Hong Li, Hao Sun, Zhe Lang, Zuxin Chen, Weijie Wang, Hongsong Zhu, Limin Sun. LibAM: An Area Matching Framework for Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Binaries. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023. (CCF-A) [PDF] [DOI] [CODE]
11. [ICPADS’2023] Yongpan Wang, Chaopeng Dong, Siyuan Li, Fucai Luo, Renjie Su, Zhanwei Song, Hong Li. FlowEmbed: Binary function embedding model based on relational control flow graph and byte sequence. In IEEE 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023. (CCF-C) [PDF] [DOI]
12. [MILCOM’2023] Siyuan Li, Chaopeng Dong, Yongpan Wang, Wenming Liu, Weijie Wang, Hong Li, Hongsong Zhu and Limin Sun. LibDI: A Direction Identification Framework for Detecting Complex Reuse Relationships in Binaries. In IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2023. (IIE-B)

📚 Services

• Referee of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• Referee of Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)
• Referee of Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
• Referee of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award FSE 2026
• 2024/2025: National Scholarship.
• 2025: Director’s Special Award, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2023: Director’s Excellence Award, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS.
• 2022: 3rd Prize, CCF Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest
• 2022: 1st Prize, Datacon 2022 Big Data Security Analysis Competition
• 2021: 2nd Prize, Datacon 2021 Big Data Security Analysis Competition
• 2018: Honorable Prize, Mathematical Contest In Modeling
• 2017, 2018: 1st Prize, 8th/9th National College Student Mathematics Competition
• 2016, 2018: National Scholarship

📖 Educations

• 2019.09-2025.12: Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. PhD in Cyber Space Security.
• 2024.03-2025.03: College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. Visiting Scholar.
• 2015.09-2019.06: College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, B.ENG. In Computer Science and Technology.