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I am Zijie Zhao, a third year PhD student in the PL/FM/SE group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Lingming Zhang. I am generally interested in software engineering and testing, especially fuzzing and static analysis.
I obtained my bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science at University of California San Diego.
Publication
Kernelgpt: Enhanced kernel fuzzing via large language models
Chenyuan Yang, Zijie Zhao, Lingming Zhang
Pre-print
WaVe: a verifiably secure WebAssembly sandboxing runtime
Evan Johnson, Evan Laufer, Zijie Zhao, Shravan Narayan, Stefan Savage, Deian Stefan, Fraser Brown
IEEE S&P 2023 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
Industry Experience
AptosLabs
Graduate Intern
Built a source code level fuzzer for the Aptos Move compiler and VM stack.
Teaching Experience
- UIUC CS 527: Topics in Software Engineering
- UIUC CS 427: Software Engineering I
- UCSD CSE 127: Intro to Computer Security
- UCSD CSE 21: Mathematics for Algorithms and Systems
- UCSD CSE 12: Basic Data Structures and OOD
- UCSD CSE 11: Introduction to Java
Bug Selection
- Firefox
- CVE-2020-26960 (received $1,000 bug bounty)
- Linux kernel
- CVE-2024-23851, CVE-2023-52429, CVE-2024-23848, CVE-2024-23850, CVE-2024-25739, CVE-2024-23849, CVE-2024-25740, CVE-2024-26655, CVE-2024-25741