Kaixuan Li is now a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering Institute at East China Normal University (ECNU), under the supervision of Prof. Yixiang Chen. Before that, he received his B.S. degree in Software Engineering Institute from ECNU in 2020. He is also a visiting Ph.D. student and research assistant at Nanyang Technological University under the supervision of Prof. Yang Liu during 2022-2024.

His research interests revolve around the domains of Software Security, encompassing various aspects such as Open Source Security and Smart Contract Security.

🔥 News

April 2024: Our paper “Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We?” was accepted by FSE 2024.
July 2023: Our paper “Comparison and Evaluation on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Java” was accepted by ESEC/FSE 2023.
July 2023: Our paper “Demystifying the Composition and Code Reuse in Solidity Smart Contracts” was accepted by ESEC/FSE 2023.
January 2023: Our paper “A Comprehensive Study on Quality Assurance Tools for Java” was accepted by ISSTA 2023.

📝 Publications

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(Preprint) Han Liu, Jian Zhang, Cen Zhang, Xiaohan Zhang, Kaixuan Li, Sen Chen, Shang-Wei Lin, Yixiang Chen, Xinhua Li, and Yang Liu. “FineWAVE: Fine-Grained Warning Verification of Bugs for Automated Static Analysis Tools.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16032 (2024), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.16032.pdf
(Preprint) Lyueye Zhang^, Kaixuan Li^, Kairan Sun, Daoyuan Wu, Ye Liu, Haoye Tian, and Yang Liu. “Acfix: Guiding llms with mined common rbac practices for context-aware repair of access control vulnerabilities in smart contracts.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06838 (2024), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06838.pdf
(FSE 2024, CCF-A) Kaixuan Li, Yue Xue, Sen Chen, Han Liu, Kairan Sun, Ming Hu, Haijun Wang, Yang Liu, and Yixiang Chen. “Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We?”, In Proceedings of ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundation of Software Engineering (FSE); Accepted, 2024.
(ESEC/FSE 2023, CCF-A) Kaixuan Li^, Sen Chen^, Lingling Fan, Ruitao Feng, Han Liu, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, and Yixiang Chen. “Comparison and Evaluation on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Java”. United States, In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023); 3 December-9 December 2023, Pages:921–933, https://doi.org/10.1145/3611643.3616262.
(ESEC/FSE 2023, CCF-A) Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li, and Yang Liu. 2023. “Demystifying the Composition and Code Reuse in Solidity Smart Contracts.” United States, In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023); 3 December-9 December 2023, Pages:796-807, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3611643.3616270.
(ISSTA 2023, CCF-A) Han Liu, Sen Chen, Ruitao Feng, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li, Zhengzi Xu, Liming Nie, Yang Liu, and Yixiang Chen. “A Comprehensive Study on Quality Assurance Tools for Java”, United States, In Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA); 17 July-21 July 2023, Pages:285–297, https://doi.org/10.1145/3597926.3598056.
(JoS, CCF-A in Chinese) Han Liu, Kaixuan Li, and Yixiang Chen. “Survey on Trustworthiness Measurement for Artificial Intelligence Systems”. Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software, 2023, 34(8): 3774–3792 (in Chinese), http://www.jos.org.cn/1000-9825/6592.htm.

📖 Educations

2020.09 - 2025.06 (expected), Ph.D. student/candidate, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University.
2023.09 - 2024.12, Research Assistant, Continental-NTU Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University.
2022.09 - 2023.09, Visiting Ph.D. student, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University.
2016.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University.

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🎖 Honors and Awards

Merit Student of East China Normal University, 2022-2023.
Visiting Ph.D. Student Scholarship of China Scholarship Council, 2022-2023.
Merit Student of East China Normal University, 2021-2022.
“Boke City” Merit Student Scholarship, 2021-2022.
Merit Student of East China Normal University, 2020-2021.
“HUAWEI CUP” The 18th China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling 3rd Prize, 2021.
“HUAWEI CUP” The 17th China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling 3rd Prize, 2020.
Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai, 2020.
Merit Award for “YOOZOO CUP” Shanghai University Programming Invitational Tournament, 2018.
“ZHIXING CUP” Shanghai Under-Graduate Social Practice Project 2nd Prize, 2017.
Advanced Individual Award for Social Practice of East China Normal University, 2017.
Best Project Award for Social Practice in East China Normal University, 2017.
People’s Finance Bank Scholarship, 2017.

Kaixuan Li (李凯旋)