- Anshunkang Zhou, Yikun Hu, Xiangzhe Xu, Charles Zhang ARCTURUS: Full Coverage Binary Similarity Analysis with Reachability-Guided Emulation, In ACM TOSEM:: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024
- Anshunkang Zhou, Chengfeng Ye, Heqing Huang, Yuandao Cai, Charles Zhang Plankton: Reconciling Binary Code and Debug Information, In ASPLOS 2024: ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Diego, USA, April 27- May 1, 2024
- Hao Ling, Heqing Huang, Chengpeng Wang, Yuandao Cai, Charles Zhang GIANTSAN: Efficient Memory Sanitization with Segment Folding, In ASPLOS 2024: ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Diego, USA, April 27- May 1, 2024
- Heqing Huang, Anshunkang Zhou, Mathias Payer, Charles Zhang, Everything is Good for Something: Counterexample-Guided Directed Fuzzing via Likely Invariant Inference, In S&P'24: The 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA, May 20-23, 2024
- Rongxin Wu, Yuxuan He, Jiafeng Huang, Chengpeng Wang, Wensheng Tang, Qingkai Shi, Xiao Xiao, and Charles Zhang. LibAlchemy: A Two-Layer Persistent Summary Design for Taming Third-Party Libraries in Static Bug-Finding Systems. In ICSE 2024: 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, April 14-20, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Wensheng Tang, Dejun Dong, Shijie Li, Chengpeng Wang, Peisen Yao, Jinguo Zhou, and Charles Zhang. Octopus: Scaling Value-Flow Analysis via Parallel Collection of Realizable Path Conditions. In TOSEM: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023
- Yuandao Cai, Yibo Jin, Charles Zhang. Unleashing the Power of Type-Based Call Graph Construction by Using Regional Pointer Information, In USENIX Security 24:the 33nd USENIX Security Symposium, August 14-16, 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Heqing Huang, Peisen Yao, Hung-Chun Chiu, Yiyuan Guo, Charles Zhang. Titan : Efficient Multi-target Directed Greybox Fuzzing, In S&P'24: The 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA, May 20-23, 2024
- J. Gong, W. Zhang, C. Zhang and T. Wang, WFDefProxy: Real World Implementation and Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Defenses In TIFS: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, pages 1357 - 1371, 25 October 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3327662.
- Yuandao Cai, Charles Zhang. A Cocktail Approach to Practical Call Graph Construction, In OOPLSA2023:The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Objected Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2023 Cascais, Portugal
- Wensheng Tang, Chengpeng Wang, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, Xianjin Fu, Gang Fan, Charles Zhang. DCLink: Bridging Data Constraint Changes and Implementations in FinTech Systems, In ASE2023: 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Sept. 11 - 15, 2023
- Heqing Huang, Hung-Chun Chiu, Qingkai Shi, Peisen Yao, Charles Zhang. Balance Seed Scheduling via Monte Carlo Planning, In TDSC:IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, June, 2023
- Chengpeng Wang, Peisen Yao, Wensheng Tang, Gang Fan, and Charles Zhang, Synthesizing Conjunctive Queries for Code Search, In ECOOP 2023: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, July, 2023.
- Zongyin Hao, Quanfeng Huang, Chengpeng Wang, Jianfeng Wang, Yushan Zhang, Rongxin Wu, and Charles Zhang, Detecting Logical Bugs in Database Management Systems with Approximate Query Synthesis, In ATC 2023: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July, 2023.
- Chengpeng Wang, Gang Fan, Peisen Yao, Fuxiong Pan, Charles Zhang Verifying Data Constraint Equivalence in FinTech Systems, In ICSE 2023: the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, May 14-20, 2023
- Yuandao Cai, Peisen Yao, Chengfeng Ye, Charles Zhang Place Your Locks Well: Understanding and Detecting Lock Misuse Bugs, In USENIX Security 2023: the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. August 9-11, 2023, Anaheim, CA, USA
- Chengpeng Wang, Wenyang Wang, Peisen Yao, Qingkai Shi,Jinguo Zhou, Xiao Xiao, Charles Zhang Anchor: Fast and Precise Value-Flow Analysis for Containers via Memory Orientation, In TOSEM: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. paper
- Rongxin Wu, Minglei Chen,Chengpeng Wang, Gang Fan, Jiguang Qiu,and Charles Zhang, Accelerating Build Dependency Error Detection via Virtual Build, In ASE 2022:The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Mon 10 - Fri 14 October 2022 Oakland Center, Michigan, United States paper
- Qingkai Shi, Yongchao Wang, Peisen Yao and Charles Zhang Indexing the Extended Dyck-CFL Reachability for Context-Sensitive Program Analysis, In OOPSLA 2022 : The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Objected Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, December, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand paper
- Yuandao Cai, Chengfeng Ye, Qingkai Shi and Charles Zhang Peahen: Fast and Precise Static Deadlock Detection via Context Reduction, In ESEC/FSE 2022 : The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, November, 2022, Singapore paper
- Jiajun Gong, Wuqi Zhang, Charles Zhang, and Tao Wang. Surakav: Generating Realistic Traces for a Strong Website Fingerprinting Defense, In S&P'22: The 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA, May 23-26, 2022 paper
- Chengpeng Wang, Peisen Yao, Wensheng Tang, Qingkai Shi, and Charles Zhang, Complexity-Guided Container Replacement Synthesis, In OOPSLA 2022 : The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Objected Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, December, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand paper
- Yiyuan Guo, Jinguo Zhou, Peisen Yao, Qingkai Shi, Charles Zhang. Precise Divide-By-Zero Detection with Affirmative Evidence In ICSE 2022: 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, Pittsburgh, USA, May 21-29, 2022 paper
- Heqing Huang, Yiyuan Guo, Qingkai Shi, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, Charles Zhang Beacon: Directed Grey-Box Fuzzing with Provable Path Pruning In S&P'22: The 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA, May 23-26, 2022 paper
- Wensheng Tang, Yikun Hu, Gang Fan, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, Guangyuan Bai, Pengcheng Wang, and Charles Zhang. Transcode: Detecting Status Code Translation Errors in Large-Scale Systems. In ASE'21: The 2021 IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference paper
- Peisen Yao, Qingkai Shi, Heqing Huang, Charles Zhang. Program Analysis via Efficient Symbolic Abstraction In OOPSLA'21: The 36th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Objected Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. paper
- Peisen Yao, Heqing Huang, Tang Wensheng, Qingkai Shi, Rongxin Wu, Charles Zhang Skeletal Approximation Enumeration for SMT Solver Testing In FSE 2021:29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Aug 23-27, 2021 paper
- Yuandao Cai, Peisen Yao, and Charles Zhang. Canary: Practical Static Detection of Inter-Thread Value-Flow Bugs. In PLDI 2021: The 42nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 20-25, Virtual, UK, https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454099. (draft)
- Qingkai Shi, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, and Charles Zhang. Path-Sensitive Sparse Analysis without Path Conditions. In PLDI 2021: The 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation , June 20-25, 2021, Virtual, https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454086(draft)
- Peisen Yao, Heqing Huang, Tang Wensheng, Qingkai Shi, Rongxin Wu, Charles Zhang Fuzzing SMT Solvers via Two-Dimensional Input Space Exploration In ISSTA 2021:The 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 11-17 July, 2021 paper
- Peisen Yao, Qingkai Shi, Heqing Huang, Charles Zhang Fast Bit-Vector Satisfiability In ISSTA 2020: The 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 18-22 July, 2020
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- Gang Fan, Chengpeng Wang, Rongxin Wu, Qingkai Shi, Charles Zhang Escaping Dependency Hell: Finding Build Dependency Errors with the Unified Dependency Graph In ISSTA 2020:The 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 18-22 July, 2020
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- Heqing Huang, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, Charles Zhang Pangolin: Incremental Hybrid Fuzzing with Polyhedral Path Abstraction In IEEE S&P 2020:: Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA, May, 2020. paper
- Qingkai Shi, Charles Zhang, Pipelining Bottom-up Data Flow Analysis, In ICSE 2020: The 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, Korea, May, 2020
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- Qingkai Shi, Rongxin Wu, Gang Fan, Charles Zhang, Conquering the Extensional Scalability Problem for Value-Flow Analysis Frameworks In ICSE 2020:The 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, Korea, May, 2020
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- (ICSE Distinguished Paper) Gang Fan, Rongxin Wu, Qingkai Shi, Xiao Xiao, Jinguo Zhou, Charles Zhang SMOKE: Scalable Path-Sensitive Memory Leak Detection for Millions of Lines of Code In ICSE 2019: The 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, Montreal, Canada, May, 2019. paper
- Qingkai Shi, Xiao Xiao, Rongxin Wu, Jinguo Zhou, Fan Gang and Charles Zhang Pinpoint: Fast and Precise Sparse Value Flow Analysis for Million Lines of Code. In PLDI 2018: the 39th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Philadelphia, USA, June, 2018 paper
- Rongxin Wu, Xiao Xiao, Shing-Chi Cheung, Hongyu Zhang and Charles Zhang. Casper: An Efficient Approach to Call Trace Collection. In POPL 2016: 43rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, St. Petersburg, Florida, January 2016. (paper)
- Jeff Huang and Charles Zhang.Debugging Concurrent Software: Advances and Challenges. In Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 31 (5): 861-868, 2016 (Invited)
- Xiao Xiao, Shi Han, Charles Zhang and Dongmei Zhang Uncovering JavaScript Performance Code Smells Relevant to Type Mutations. In APLAS 2015: 13th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, Pohang, Nov. 2015
- Valerio Terragni, Shing-Chi Cheung and Charles Zhang RECONTEST: Effective Regression Testing of Concurrent Programs. In ICSE 2015: The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering, Florence, Italy, May, 2015.
- Qirun Zhang, Xiao Xiao, Charles Zhang, Hao Yuan and Zhendong Su Efficient Subcubic Alias Analysis for C. In OOPSLA 2014: the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Portland, USA, Nov. 2014
- Peng Liu, Omer Tripp and Charles Zhang Grail: Context-Aware Fixing of Concurrency Bugs . In FSE 2014: the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2014.
- Xiao Xiao, Jinguo Zhou, Qirun Zhang and Charles Zhang Persistent Pointer Information. In PLDI 2014: the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Edinburgh, UK, June, 2014
- Peng Liu and Charles Zhang Unleashing Concurrency for Irregular Data Structures. In ICSE 2014: 36th International Conference on Software Engineering. Hyderabad, India, June, 2014
- Peng Liu, Julian Dolby and Charles Zhang Finding Incorrect Compositions of Atomicity. In ESEC/FSE 2013: the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Pages 158-168, St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2013.
- (SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award, Nominated for CACM Research Highlights) Jeff Huang, Charles Zhang and Julian Dolby CLAP: Recording Local Executions to Reproduce Concurrency Failures. In PLDI 2013: the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Seattle, USA, June. 2013.
- Jeff Huang, Jinguo Zhou and Charles Zhang Scaling Predictive Analysis of Concurrent Programs by Removing Trace Redundancy In TOSEM: The ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 22 no.8 Feb. 2013.
- Yin Wang, Peng Liu, Terence Kelly, Stephane Lafortune, Spyros A. Reveliotis, Charles Zhang On atomicity enforcement in concurrent software via Discrete Event Systems theory CDC 2012:51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 7230-7237, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2012
- Jeff Huang and Charles Zhang LEAN: Simplifying Concurrency Bug Reproduction via Replay-supported Execution Reduction In OOPSLA 2012: the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Tucson, Arizona, USA, p451-466, 2012 (draft).
- Jeff Huang and Charles Zhang Execution Privatization for Scheduler-Oblivious Concurrent Programs In OOPSLA 2012: the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2012 (draft).
- Peng Liu and Charles Zhang Axis: Automatically fixing atomicity violations through solving control constraints In ICSE 2012: the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2012. (paper)
- Jinguo Zhou, Xiao Xiao, and Charles Zhang Stride: Search-based Deterministic Replay in Polynomial Time via
Bounded Linkage In ICSE 2012: the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2012, p890-900. (paper)
- Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen Mining Crosscutting Concerns through Random Walks. In TSE: The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering vol. 38 no. 5, pp. 1123-1137, Sep., 2012. (draft)
- Peng Liu and Charles Zhang. PERT: The Application Specific Tailoring of Object Persistence. In TSE: The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol 38 no. 4 pp. 909-922, July, 2012. (draft)
- Jeff Huang and Charles Zhang. An Efficient Static Trace Simplification Technique for Debugging Concurrent Programs. In SAS 2011: The 18th International Static Analysis Symposium, Venice, Italy, 2011
- Shaoming Huang and Charles Zhang. Persuasive Prediction of Concurrency Access Anomalies . In ISSTA 2011: International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Toronto, Canada, 2011 (draft)
- Xiao Xiao and Charles Zhang. Geometric Encoding: Forging high performance context sensitive points-to analysis for Java . In ISSTA 2011: International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Toronto, Canada, 2011 (draft)
- Xiao Xiao, Jinguo Zhou and Charles Zhang. Tracking Data Structures for Postmortem Analysis. In ICSE 2011 NIER Track: the 33rd Interntional Conference on Software Engineering, Hawaii, USA, May, 2011
Wei Li, Charles Zhang and Songlin Hu. G-Finder: Routing programming questions closer to experts. In OOPSLA 2010: the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Reno, USA, October 2010
Shaoming Huang, Peng Liu and Charles Zhang. LEAP: Lightweight deterministic multiprocessor replay for concurrent Java programs. In FSE 2010: 18th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. Santa Fe, USA, November 2010
Wei Jiang, Charles Zhang, Zhenqiu Huang, Mingwen Chen and Songlin Hu. QSynth: A Tool for QoS-Aware Automatic Service Composition . In ICWS 2010: the 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services. Miami, Florida, USA, July 2010
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Charles Zhang FlexSync: An aspect oriented approach to Java synchronization, In ICSE 2009: 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2009 (draft)
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Externalizing Java server concurrency with CAL, In ECOOP 2008: 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Paphos, Cyprus, July, 2008 (draft)
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Efficiently mining crosscutting concerns through random walks, In AOSD07: 6th International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development,, 12-page manuscript, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2007. (Updated: paper)
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Charles Zhang, Gilbert Gao and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Generic Middleware Substrate through Modelware.
In Middleware 2005: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2005), pages 314-333, Grenoble, France November 28th - December 2nd, 2005 paper
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Charles Zhang, Gilbert Gao and Hans-Arno
Jacobsen. Towards Just-in-time Middleware, In AOSD05: 4th
International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development,, pages 63-74, Chicago, IL,
March 2005, paper
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Resovling Feature Convolution in Middleware Systems. In OOPSLA04: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, pages 188-205, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2004. paper
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Refactoring Middleware Systems: A Case Study. In DOA2003, International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, Catania, Sicily (Italy), 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1243-1262, Springer Verlag.
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Refactoring Middleware with Aspects. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems, 14(11):1058 - 1073, November 2003.paper
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Quantifying Aspects in Middleware Platforms. In AOSD03: 2nd International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development, pages 130-139, Boston, MA, March 2003.
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Charles Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Yijin Yu. Linking Goal to Aspects. In Early Aspects Workshop, co-located with the 4th International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2005)
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Charles Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Julie Waterhouse Park, and Adrian Colyer. Aspect Refactoring Verifior, In Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop, co-located with 4th International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development. (AOSD 2005)
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism is research in aspect mining. In Companion of OOPSLA04: the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. ACM Press, 2004.
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Charles Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, TinyC2: Towards building a dynamic weaving aspect language for C, In Foundations of Aspect Languages, co-located with 2nd International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development. (AOSD 2003)
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism Query Language ,
Software Demonstration, 5th International Conference of Aspect Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2006
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism Query Language ,
Software Demonstration and Poster, 15th annual international conference of the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies, CASCON 2005
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism is Research In aSpect Mining,
Software Demonstration at OOPSLA
2004.
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism is Research In aSpect Mining,
Software Demonstration at CASCON
2004.
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Charles Zhang and
Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism is
Research in Software Modularization. Software Demonstration at
CASCON 2003.
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Prism is Research in Software.
Modularization. Poster at eTX Workshop OOPSLA 2003
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Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Modularity Analyzer and Aspect Extractor.
Poster at eTX Workshop ICSE 2003
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Charles Zhang,
Gilbert Gao, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, AMTEX,
an extended aspect mining tool,
Software Demonstration at CASCON 2002, Markham, Ontario, 2002