About Me

My name is Chong Chen. I am a master’s student at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. My supervisors are Dr. Jiachi Chen and Dr. Yanlin Wang. 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
Chong Chen, Jiachi Chen, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Yanlin Wang, Zhenyu Shan, Ting Chen, Guangqiang Yin, Jianxing Yu, Zibin Zheng
in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2026)
Coinvisor: An RL-Enhanced Chatbot Agent for Interactive Cryptocurrency Investment Analysis
Chong Chen, Ze Liu, Lingfeng Bao, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Daoyuan Wu, Jiachi Chen
Pre-print 2025
Identifying Smart Contract Security Issues in Code Snippets from Stack Overflow
Jiachi Chen, Chong Chen, Jiang Hu, John Grundy, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng
in ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
When ChatGPT Meets Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: How Far Are We?
Chong Chen, Jianzhong Su, Jiachi Chen, Yanlin Wang, Tingting Bi, Jianxing Yu, Yanli Wang, Xingwei Lin, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng
in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2024)

🎖 Honors and Awards

2025 Xiaomi Outstanding Scholarship at Sun Yat-sen University
2024 National Scholarship at Sun Yat-sen University
2025 Top 5, ETH Hangzhou Hackathon, 896 likes (Project Link)
2024 1st Class Scholarship at Sun Yat-sen University
2024 The Third Prize in the DataCon Big Data Security Analysis Competition
2024 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA 2024
2023 1st Class Scholarship at Sun Yat-sen University
2022 Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

💼 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

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