Chong Chen (陈翀)

Biography

My name is Chong Chen. I am a master’s student at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. My supervisor is Dr. Jiachi Chen. Currently, I am interning at The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University.

My research mainly focuses on: (1) LLM4SE; (2) Program Analysis, with a primary focus on the applications of LLMs in code quality and the Web3 domain.

Educations

• Sun Yat-sen University
  M.S. in Software Engineering, September 2023 - Present.

• Soochow University
  B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, September 2019 - June 2023.

Publications

• Trace: Securing Smart Contract Repository Against Access Control Vulnerability
  (Pre-print 2025) PDF | Code
  Chong Chen, Jiachi Chen, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Yanlin Wang, Zhenyu Shan, Ting Chen, Guangqiang Yin, Jianxing Yu, Zibin Zheng

• Coinvisor: An RL-Enhanced Chatbot Agent for Interactive Cryptocurrency Investment Analysis
  (Pre-print 2025) PDF | Code
  Chong Chen, Ze Liu, Lingfeng Bao, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Daoyuan Wu, Jiachi Chen

• Identifying Smart Contract Security Issues in Code Snippets from Stack Overflow
  🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024) PDF | Code
  Jiachi Chen, Chong Chen, Jiang Hu, John Grundy, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng

• When ChatGPT Meets Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: How Far Are We?
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2024) PDF | Code
  Chong Chen, Jianzhong Su, Jiachi Chen, Yanlin Wang, Tingting Bi, Jianxing Yu, Yanli Wang, Xingwei Lin, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng

Academic Service

• Program Committee: APSEC ERA 2025
• Reviewer of Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE), 2025 - Present
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (IEEE TCSS), 2024 - Present
• Reviewer of Blockchain: Research and Application (BCRA), 2023 - Present

Awards and Honors

• ETH Hangzhou Hackathon, 2025, Top 5, 896 likes (Project Link)
• The Third Prize in the DataCon Big Data Security Analysis Competition, 2024
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ISSTA ‘24)
• Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Honorable Mention, 2022

Scholarship

• National Scholarship at SYSU, 2023-2024
• 1st Class Scholarship at SYSU, 2023-2024
• 1st Class Scholarship at SYSU, 2022-2023