Yixuan Cao 曹弈轩

Yixuan Cao 曹弈轩

Ph.D. student @ Nanjing University

I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, Nanjing University, advised by Prof. Yanyan Jiang. My research interests lie broadly in software systems. As intelligent agents become active participants in software development and maintenance, I am interested in how they can understand, reason about, and evolve complex software systems, enabling more reliable and efficient software engineering.

Previously, I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees from the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, where I was advised by Prof. Yuhong Feng and Prof. Xu Wang. I worked extensively on system software and security. I have contributed to the Linux kernel and LLVM communities, including enhancements to page_owner, a Linux kernel memory debugging infrastructure, and AddressSanitizer, a memory safety tool. I have also conducted research on software reliability and contributed to vulnerability discovery and disclosure in open-source software systems. Additionally, I was selected as a Huawei Developer Advocate in 2024 and a Huawei Cloud Student Developers (HCSD) Campus Ambassador in 2025.

Collaborations and discussions are warmly welcomed — feel free to reach out!

📝 Publications

  • Yixuan Cao, Yuhong Feng†, Huafeng Li, Chongyi Huang, Fangcao Jian, Haoran Li, Xu Wang. Tech-ASan: Two-stage check for Address Sanitizer. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Internetware, 2025. paper slides and video dataset
  • Yufeng Wang, Yuhong Feng†, Yixuan Cao, Haoran Li, Haiyue Feng, Yifeng Wang. ORCAS: Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Analysis using Dominance Enhanced Semantic Graph. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025. paper slides dataset
  • Qiuming Luo, Yanming Lei†, Kunzhong Wu, Yixuan Cao, Chengjian Liu. AutoFSM: A Multi-Agent Framework for FSM Code Generation with IR and SystemC-Based Testing. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2025. paper
  • Yuhong Feng†, Fangcao Jian, Yixuan Cao, Xiaobin Jian, Jia Wang, Haiyue Feng, Chunyan Miao. Efficient Candidate-Free R-S Set Similarity Joins with Filter-and-Verification Trees on MapReduce. Preprint, 2025. paper
  • Yuhong Feng, Haoran Li†, Yixuan Cao, Yufeng Wang, Haiyue Feng. CRABS-former: CRoss-Architecture Binary Code Similarity Detection based on Transformer. Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, 2024. paper

* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author.

📖 Educations

  • 2026.09 - Present, Ph.D., Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University.
  • 2023.09 - 2026.07, M.S., Computer Science and Technology, Shenzhen University.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.07, B.S., Computer Science and Technology (Honor), Shenzhen University.

💼 Experiences

  • 2025.06 - 2025.09, Internship, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Outstanding Intern, Top 20%)

👨‍🏫 Teaching

Instructor

Teaching Assistant

  • Systems Programming, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University (2026 Spring, 2024 Spring, 2023 Fall)
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University (2023 Spring)
  • Computer Systems (3), College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University (2022 Fall)

🏅 Honors & Awards

Personal Honors

  • [2024] Huawei Developer of the Year – Pioneer Project Award (only 15 awardees worldwide)
  • [2023] Top 100 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Design), Shenzhen University (96 of 6,615 graduates)
  • [2023] Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Shenzhen University

Scholarship

  • [2025/2024/2023] SZU Master’s Academic Scholarship: Special Class (2023), First Class (2024, 2025)
  • [2024/2023/2022] Ministry of Education – Huawei Intelligent Base “Future Star” Scholarship
  • [2023] openEuler Open Source Contribution Elite Scholarship (only 13 awardees worldwide)
  • [2023] Star of SZU Scholarship, Shenzhen University (top 1%)
  • [2023] Innovation & Entrepreneurship Star, First Prize, Shenzhen University

Competition Awards

  • [2024] China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, Guangdong Provincial Silver Award
  • [2024] Huawei Software Elite Challenge 2024, Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Regional Second Prize
  • [2023] Lanqiao Cup Programming Contest (Java Software Development), National Finals Second Prize
  • [2022] The 4th National Collegiate Algorithm Design and Programming Challenge (Autumn), Excellence Award
  • [2022] China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), Guangdong Provincial Second Prize
  • [2021] Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM), Honorable Mention
  • [2020] National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (Non-Mathematics Major), First Prize

🐛 CVEs

More vulnerability disclosures are pending due to responsible disclosure timelines. Stay tuned.

📰 Reports