About me
I obtained my Ph.D. degree supervised by Prof. Shuai Wang at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in 2023. Before joining HKUST, I received my B.Eng. degree from Nankai University, Tianjin, China in 2019.
My research currently focuses on Reverse Engineering, my research interests include Computer Security and Software Engineering.
I am on the 2023/24 job market now.
Education
Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Sept 2019 - Sept 2023
B.E. in Information Security, Nankai University Sept 2015 - June 2019
Publications
ASE 2023
PHYFU: Fuzzing Modern Physics Simulation Engines
Dongwei Xiao, Zhibo Liu, Shuai Wang.
the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.
ACM Distinguished Paper Award
Blackhat USA 2023
BTD: Unleashing the Power of Decompilation for x86 Deep Neural Network Executables
Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Xiaofei Xie, Tianxiang Li, Wenqiang Li, and Shuai Wang.
ISSTA 2023
Exploring Missed Optimizations in WebAssembly Optimizers [Paper]
Zhibo Liu, Dongwei Xiao, Zongjie Li, Shuai Wang, Wei Meng.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.
ICSE 2023
Metamorphic Shader Fusion for Testing Graphics Shader Compilers
Dongwei Xiao, Zhibo Liu, Shuai Wang.
Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering.
ICSE 2023
CCTEST: Testing and Repairing Code Completion Systems
Zongjie Li, Chaozheng Wang, Zhibo Liu, Haoxuan Wang, Dong Chen, Shuai Wang, Cuiyun Gao.
Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering.
USENIX Sec’23
CacheQL: Quantifying and Localizing Cache Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Production Software [Code]
Yuanyuan Yuan, Zhibo Liu, Shuai Wang.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium.
USENIX Sec’23
Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables
[Extended Version] [Code] 
Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Shuai Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium.
🎉 Artifact Evaluated, Badges: Available, Functional, Reproduced.
TSE 2022
Enhancing DNN-Based Binary Code Function Search With Low-Cost Equivalence Checking [Code]
Huaijin Wang, Pingchuan Ma, Yuanyuan Yuan, Zhibo Liu, Shuai Wang, Qiyi Tang, Sen Nie, Shi Wu.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2022.
IEEE T-IFS, 2022
NeuralD: Detecting Indistinguishability Violations of Oblivious RAM with Neural Distinguishers [Code]
Pingchuan Ma, Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, and Shuai Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022.
SIGMETRICS, 2022
Metamorphic Testing of Deep Learning Compilers [Code]
Dongwei Xiao, Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Qi Pang, and Shuai Wang.
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 2022.
IEEE S&P, 2022
SoK: Demystifying Binary Lifters Through the Lens of Downstream Applications [Artifact]
Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Shuai Wang, Yuyan Bao.
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
CCS, 2022
Cache Refinement Type for Side-channel Detection of Cryptographic Software
Ke Jiang, Yuyan Bao, Shuai Wang, Zhibo Liu, Tianwei Zhang.
the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022
ISSTA, 2020
How far we have come: testing decompilation correctness of C decompilers [Code]
Zhibo Liu, Shuai Wang.
Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
🎉 Artifact Evaluated, Badges: Functional.
Services
Reviewer:
- 2023: T-IFS, TDSC
Artifact Evaluation Committee:
- 2023: USENIX Security, ISSTA
- 2022: ISSTA, OSDI, USENIX ATC, WiSec
External Reviewer:
- 2023: IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ISSTA, NeurIPS, SANER ERA Track
- 2022: ASE, NDSS BAR, CCS, AsiaCCS
- 2020: TIFS, ICICS, ICSE SEIP
- 2019: ICICS
External Artifact Reviewer:
- 2020: ICSE
- 2019: SOSP
Teaching
Teaching Assistant for COMP 3632: Principles of Cybersecurity (HKUST, Spring 2023)
Teaching Assistant for COMP 3632: Principles of Cybersecurity (HKUST, Fall 2020)
Teaching Assistant for COMP 3632: Principles of Cybersecurity (HKUST, Spring 2020)
Awards & Honors
2023 Black Hat USA Briefing Speaker Honorarium
2019-2023 HKUST Postgraduate Studentship
2022 HKUST Research Travel Grant
2022 HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award
2019 China National Cyber Security Scholarship
2019 China National College Information Security Contest (CISCN CTF Contest), group second class prize
2018 NKU Gongneng Scholarship
2018 CISCN CTF Contest, group second class prize
2017 ACM/ICPC Asia Regional Urumqi Site Bronze Medal
Latest Updated in July 2023