Chuyang Chen (陈楚阳)

Bio

Chuyang Chen is a second-year PhD student who joined Prof. Zhiqiang Lin's team at The Ohio State University in Aug. 2024. He got his MSc degree from Nanjing University in 2023 after three happy years advised by Prof. Chang Xu and Asst. Prof. Huiyan Wang. Before that, he got his BSc degree also from Nanjing University in 2020. He will always cherish the seven years in Nanjing.

Research Interests

Chuyang Chen's PhD research has so far focused on fuzzing. His next research direction will move toward confidential computing in the AI era, particularly trusted execution environments (TEEs) for securing AI agents and their data. He is constantly learning how to identify concrete and valuable research problems from real-world practice, while cross-linking fragmented knowledge to address the fundamental questions of cybersecurity, software engineering, and systems in our time. The ultimate goal is always to conduct top-tier research and to push the boundary of human knowledge.

Selected Publications

[Full Publication List]

• Chuyang Chen^*, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, and Zhiqiang Lin. ELFuzz: Efficient Input Generation via LLM-driven Synthesis Over Fuzzer Space. In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'25), pp. 6279–6298, Seattle, Washington, USA, Aug. 2025. [bib, pdf, code]

Work Experience

Academic Jobs

• Aug. 2024–Present: Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University
• Jul. 2023–May 2024: Research Assistant, East China Normal University
  • Working on metamorphic testing, symbolic execution and SMT solvers in Prof. Ting Su's group
• Sept. 2022–Mar. 2023: Teaching Assistant, Nanjing University
  • Assisting in Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2022)

Open-source Software

• Mar. 2021–Aug. 2021: Google Summer of Code 2021
  • One of the initial developers of the Rust integration for Enzyme AD, an LLVM automatic differentiation plugin

Honors and Awards

• First-class Merit Scholarship 英才奖学金一等奖 (Nanjing University, 2022)
• Third-class People's Scholarship 人民奖学金三等奖 (Nanjing University, 2019)
• First-class People's Scholarship 人民奖学金一等奖 (Nanjing University, 2018)

Hobbies

Strategy games, CRPGs, and roguelikes; philosophical books and weird fictions such as Thomas Pynchon; scrolling TikTok videos that are likely to cause brain damage.