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Curriculum vitae of Shuo Yang.
Contact Information
| Name | Shuo Yang |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Candidate in Software Engineering |
| yangsh233@mail2.sysu.edu.cn | |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Website | https://shuo-young.github.io |
Professional Summary
Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University (InPlusLab), supervised by Prof. Zibin Zheng and Assoc. Prof. Jiachi Chen. Research interests include software security, smart contracts, program analysis, and AI for security.
Experience
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2025 - 2026 Shanghai, China
Research Intern
DarkNavy
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2024 - 2024 Remote
Research Intern
GoPlus Security
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2023 - 2024 Hangzhou, China
Research Intern
Skyward Lab, Ant Group
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2021 - 2022 Shenzhen, China
Research Intern
R&D of Blockchain Underlying Platform, WeBank
Education
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2022 - Present Zhuhai, China
Ph.D. in Software Engineering
Sun Yat-sen University
- Advisors: Prof. Zibin Zheng and Assoc. Prof. Jiachi Chen, InPlusLab
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2018 - 2022 Wuhan, China
B.E. in Information Management System
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Publications
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2026 Revealing the Dark Side of Smart Accounts: An Empirical Study of EIP-7702 Incurred Risks in Blockchain Ecosystem
USENIX Security 2026 (CCF-A)
Mingyuan Huang, Han Liu, Shuo Yang, Daoyuan Wu, Shuai Wang
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2025 Hyperion: Unveiling DApp Inconsistencies using LLM and Dataflow-Guided Symbolic Execution
ICSE 2025 (CCF-A)
Shuo Yang, Xingwei Lin, Jiachi Chen, Qingyuan Zhong, Lei Xiao, Renke Huang, Yanlin Wang, Zibin Zheng
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2025 Who is Pulling the Strings: Unveiling Smart Contract State Manipulation Attacks through State-Aware Dataflow Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2025 (CCF-A)
Shuo Yang, Jiachi Chen, Lei Xiao, Jinyuan Hu, Dan Lin, Jiajing Wu, Tao Zhang, Zibin Zheng
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2024 Uncover the Premeditated Attacks: Detecting Exploitable Reentrancy Vulnerabilities by Identifying Attacker Contracts
ICSE 2024 (CCF-A)
Shuo Yang, Jiachi Chen, Mingyuan Huang, Zibin Zheng, Yuan Huang
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2023 Definition and Detection of Defects in NFT Smart Contracts
ISSTA 2023 (CCF-A)
Shuo Yang, Jiachi Chen, Zibin Zheng
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2025 NumScout: Unveiling Numerical Defects in Smart Contracts using LLM-Pruning Symbolic Execution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2025 (CCF-A)
Jiachi Chen, Zhenzhe Shao, Shuo Yang, Yiming Shen, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Zhenyu Shan, Zibin Zheng
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2025 WakeMint: Detecting Sleepminting Vulnerabilities in NFT Smart Contracts
SANER 2025 (CCF-B)
Lei Xiao, Shuo Yang* (corresponding author), Wen Chen, Zibin Zheng
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2024 FunFuzz: A Function-oriented Fuzzer for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with High Effectiveness and Efficiency
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024 (CCF-A)
Mingxi Ye, Yuhong Nan, Hong-Ning Dai, Shuo Yang, Zibin Zheng, Xiapu Luo
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2023 Towards Understanding Asset Flows in Crypto Money Laundering Through the Lenses of Ethereum Heist
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2023 (CCF-A)
Jiajing Wu, Dan Lin, Qishuang Fu, Shuo Yang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng, Bowen Song
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2022 WaLi: Control-Flow-Based Analysis of Wasm Smart Contracts
BlockSys 2022 (CCF-C)
Shuo Yang, Huizhong Li, Zibin Zheng
Academic Service
- Program Committee Member:
- BlockSys 2026: International Conference on Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Trustworthy Systems (CCF-C)
- BlockSys 2023: International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (CCF-C)
- Journal & Conference Sub-reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC, CCF-A, JCR Q1)
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A, JCR Q1)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ, CCF-C, JCR Q1)
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE, JCR Q1)
- Blockchain: Research and Applications (BCRA, CCF-B, JCR Q1)
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025, CCF-A)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025, CCF-A)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025, CCF-A)
- Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2024, CCF-C)
- 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2024, CCF-C)
Awards
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2024 National Scholarship
China
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2023 President Scholarship for Doctoral Students
Sun Yat-sen University
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2023 1st Prize
China Service Computing Innovation Contest
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2023 8th Place
Numen Cyber CTF
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2021 3rd Prize
Competition of Service Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship Innovation
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2021 3rd Prize
Chinese Undergraduate Internet Software Design Competition
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2020 3rd Prize
Competition of Service Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship Innovation
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2019 2nd Prize
Chinese Undergraduate Computer Design Contest
Security Contributions
- Earned $22,800+ in rewards from ImmuneFi Web3 bug bounty for confirmed vulnerabilities.
- AI-driven automated blockchain attack root cause analysis reports garnering over 15K views.
- 10 uncovered real-world attack analyses confirmed by DeFiHackLabs.
- 2 GPT prompt-leak bugs confirmed by developers; 1 developer adopted our prompt protection suggestion.
- 2 confirmed issues in Uniswap V4 Periphery and Stop Loss Orders with Uniswap V4 Hooks repos.
Open Source Projects
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SMAsher
State manipulation attack detector via state-aware dataflow analysis.
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Hyperion
DApp inconsistency detector using LLM and symbolic execution.
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BlockWatchdog / Lydia
Reentrancy attacker contract identification (Python / Rust).
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NFTGuard
NFT smart contract defect definition and detection.