Cen Zhang

Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology

Joined

October 2023

Names

Cen Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@e.ntu.edu.sg (Confirmed)

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2024 – 2026

Postdoc

Nanyang Technological University (ntu.edu.sg)

2023 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Taesoo Kim

2024 – 2026

Postdoc Advisor

Yang Liu

2023 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Yang Liu

2019 – 2023

Expertise

LLM Agents

2023 – 2026

cybersecurity

2019 – 2026

Publications

Exploring Code Analysis: Zero-Shot Insights on Syntax and Semantics with LLMs
Wei Ma, Zhihao Lin, Shangqing Liu, Qiang Hu, Ye Liu, Wenhan Wang, Cen Zhang, Liming Nie, Li Li, Yang Liu, Lingxiao Jiang
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- Readers: Everyone
DeepFWI: Identifying Bug-Sensitive Warnings With Multi-Modal Code-Warning Semantics
Han Liu, Jian Zhang, Cen Zhang, Xiaohan Zhang, Kaixuan Li, Sen Chen, Shang-Wei Lin, Yixiang Chen, Xinghua Li, Yang Liu
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Readers: Everyone
Arash : Token-Efficient LLM-Assisted Crash Root Cause Analysis in Fuzz Driver Generation
Maoyi Xie, Kaixuan Li, Jingquan Ge, Wei Ma, Yuqiang Sun, Ziqiao Kong, Cen Zhang, Dongge Liu, Oliver Chang, Yang Liu
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- Readers: Everyone
Contextualizing Sink Knowledge for Java Vulnerability Discovery
Fabian Fleischer, Cen Zhang, Joonun Jang, Jeongin Cho, Meng Xu, Taesoo Kim
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Large Language Models for Line-Level Vulnerability Localization
Jian Zhang, Chong Wang, Anran Li, Weisong Sun, Cen Zhang, Wei Ma, Yang Liu
- IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security
Andrew Chin, Dongkwan Kim, Yu-Fu Fu, Fabian Fleischer, Youngjoon Kim, HyungSeok Han, Cen Zhang, Brian J. Lee, Hanqing Zhao, Taesoo Kim
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SoK: DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC): Competition Design, Architectures, and Lessons Learned
Cen Zhang, Younggi Park, Fabian Fleischer, Yu-Fu Fu, Jiho Kim, Dongkwan Kim, Youngjoon Kim, Qingxiao Xu, Andrew Chin, Ze Sheng, Hanqing Zhao, Brian J. Lee, Joshua Wang, Michael Pelican, David J. Musliner, Jeff Huang, Jon Silliman, Mikel Mcdaniel, Jefferson Casavant, Isaac Goldthwaite et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
JailGuard: A Universal Detection Framework for Prompt-based Attacks on LLM Systems
Xiaoyu Zhang, Cen Zhang, Tianlin Li, Yihao Huang, Xiaojun Jia, Ming Hu, Jie Zhang, Yang Liu, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen
- ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 2026
- Readers: Everyone
User-Space Dependency-Aware Rehosting for Linux-Based Firmware Binaries
Chuan Qin, Cen Zhang, Yaowen Zheng, Puzhuo Liu, Jian Zhang, Yeting Li, Weidong Zhang, Yang Liu, Limin Sun
- NDSS 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

Ammar Askar
Andrew Chin
Anh Quynh Nguyen
Anran Li
Baijun Cheng
Bing Mao
Brian J. Lee
Chao Shen
Chaoyi Liu
Cheng Wen
Chengwei Liu
Chong Wang
Chuan Qin
Cong Sun
Dae R. Jeong
David J. Musliner
Ding Li
Dohyeok Kim
Dongge Liu
Dongju Kim
Dongkwan Kim
Dowoo Baik
Eunsoo Kim
Fabian Fleischer
Fan Jiang

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