Kunqiu Chen

SUSTech CSE

Incoming Ph.D. Student

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

I am Kunqiu Chen (陈昆秋), an incoming Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), starting in September 2026. I recently completed my M.S. in Electronic Science and Technology at SUSTech. My research focuses on Greybox Fuzzing and Sanitizers.

Education

  1. Southern University of Science and Technology
    • Incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering
    • Research focus: Greybox Fuzzing, Sanitizers
  2. Southern University of Science and Technology
    • M.S. in Electronic Science and Technology, GPA 3.52/4.0 · Rank 12/78 (top 15.4%)
  3. Southern University of Science and Technology
    • B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, GPA 3.85/4.0 · Rank 9/177 (top 5.1%)

Publications

  • ICSE 2025 Mingyuan Wu, Jiahong Xiang, Kunqiu Chen, Peng Di, Shin Hwei Tan, Heming Cui, and Yuqun Zhang. Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: How do Assisting Exploration Strategies Facilitate Grey-box Fuzzing? 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award GitHub

  • FSE 2023 Mingyuan Wu, Kunqiu Chen, Qi Luo, Jiahong Xiang, Ji Qi, Junjie Chen, Heming Cui, and Yuqun Zhang. Enhancing Coverage-Guided Fuzzing via Phantom Program. 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

  • ICSE 2023 Yicheng Ouyang, Kailai Shao, Kunqiu Chen, Ruobing Shen, Chao Chen, Mingze Xu, Yuqun Zhang, and Lingming Zhang. MirrorTaint: Practical Non-intrusive Dynamic Taint Tracking for JVM-based Microservice Systems. 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

Activities

  • LLVM Project · Committer2025 – Present

    Authored loading pull requests to llvm/llvm-project, including loading merged. Contributions span sanitizers and LLVM optimization infrastructure.

  • Open-source security research2020 – Present

    Finding and diagnosing bugs across LLVM, GNU binutils, pcre2, cmix, liblouis, zziplib, libjpeg, and jasper, and contributing fixes to a subset of them.