Yizheng Chen
Assistant Professor
Applies and secures machine learning for computer security, including LLM-based vulnerability detection and robust malware classifiers.
Yizheng Chen's lab at UMD works on trustworthy & safe ML and recognition, detection & segmentation. 9 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly ICSE and EMNLP. 3 PhD students and 1 master's student. 10 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 10
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 1
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 3 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICSE, EMNLP, ICLR, USENIX Security
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Recognition, detection & segmentation4 papers
- malware2 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML1 paper
- computer security0 papers
- classifiers0 papers
Paper list
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20263 papers
- EMNLP (T1)Benchmarking Correctness and Security in Multi-Turn Code Generation
- ICSE (T1)Locus: Agentic Predicate Synthesis for Directed Fuzzing
- LLM4CodeSecRepoBench: Benchmarking Code Agents for Secure Code Completion in Real-World Repositories
20253 papers
- SaTMLML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem
- ICSE (T1)Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?
- ICLR WorkshopWhy Are Web AI Agents More Vulnerable Than Standalone LLMs? A Security Analysis
20233 papers
- USENIX Security (T1)Continuous Learning for Android Malware Detection.
- RAIDDiverseVul: A New Vulnerable Source Code Dataset for Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection.
- ICLR (T1)Part-Based Models Improve Adversarial Robustness.
Where alumni went10 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 4Academia 4
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