Jiacheng Xu

Jiacheng Xu

Ph.D. Student

Zhejiang University

Research Interests

Cyber Security
Operating System
Software Engineering

About

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Cyber Security at Zhejiang University, where I am co-advised by Prof. Shouling Ji, Prof. Xuhong Zhang, and Prof. Peng Cheng. From 2024 to 2025, I was a research associate at the National University of Singapore, working under the supervision of Prof. Abhik Roychoudhury.

Prior to this, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University.

My research focuses on advancing system and software resilience, with a particular emphasis on operating systems. I am especially interested in the following directions:

  • Vulnerability Discovery across operating systems, cloud and web applications.
  • Large Language Model applications for operating systems.
  • Optimization of Fuzzing Techniques.

News

2025-03

Our work has been accepted by USENIX Security. Congrats to Lingming ๐ŸŽ‰!

2025-12

Our paper has been accepted by ACM TOSEM!

Selected Publications

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A Survey of Operating System Kernel Fuzzing

Jiacheng Xu, He Sun, Shihao Jiang, Qinying Wang, Mingming Zhang, Xiang Li, Kaiwen Shen, Charles Zhang, Shouling Ji, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen

ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2025)

Concurrency Testing in the Linux Kernel via eBPF

Jiacheng Xuโ€ , Dylan Wolffโ€ , Xing Yi Han, Jialin Li, Abhik Roychoudhury

CoRR

MOCK: Optimizing Kernel Fuzzing Mutation with Context-aware Dependency

Jiacheng Xu, Xuhong Zhang, Shouling Ji, Yuan Tian, Binbin Zhao, Qinying Wang, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen

In Proceedings of the 31st Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024)

MINER: A Hybrid Data-Driven Approach for REST API Fuzzing

Chenyang Lyu, Jiacheng Xu, Shouling Ji, Xuhong Zhang, Qinying Wang, Binbin Zhao, Gaoning Pan, Wei Cao, Peng Cheng, Raheem Beyah

In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2023)