Ph.D. Student at Zhejiang University

Chong Chen 陈翀

Researching AI4Security, with a focus on Web3 security and Agent security.

Portrait of Chong Chen

About

I'm a Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University.

My research centers on AI4Security, with a primary focus on Web3 security and Agent security, spanning smart contract vulnerability analysis and the reliability of LLM-based agents.

Education

  1. 2026 - Present

    Zhejiang University

    Ph.D. Student

  2. Sep 2023 - Jun 2026

    Sun Yat-sen University

    M.S. in Software Engineering

  3. Sep 2019 - Jun 2023

    Soochow University

    B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

Publications 5

  1. 2026 USENIX Security

    Lost in Blockchain Address Misuse: Hidden Cross-Platform Risks and Their Security Impact

    Zhenzhe Shao, Jiashuo Zhang, Zihao Li, Daoyuan Wu, Chong Chen, Yiming Shen, Lingfeng Bao, Yanlin Wang, Jiachi Chen

    USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2026)

  2. 2026 IEEE TSE

    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

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2026)

  3. 2025 Preprint

    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

  4. 2024 ISSTA

    ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

    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

    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)

  5. 2024 ACM TOSEM

    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

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2024)

Awards & Honors

  • 2026

    Outstanding Graduate

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2025

    Xiaomi Outstanding Scholarship

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2025
  • 2024

    National Scholarship

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2024

    ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

    ISSTA 2024

  • 2024

    First Class Scholarship

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2024

    Third Prize, DataCon Big Data Security Analysis

    National Competition

  • 2023

    First Class Scholarship

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2022

    Honorable Mention

    Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

Service

  • Program CommitteeAPSEC ERA 2025
  • ReviewerChinese Journal of Electronics (CJE), 2025 - Present
  • ReviewerIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024 - Present
  • ReviewerBlockchain: Research and Application (BCRA), 2023 - Present

Contact

I'm always glad to talk about research, collaborations, or an interesting security problem. Email is the surest way to reach me.

chong.chen@zju.edu.cn
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