Jie Hu

My research focuses on making software more secure through automated program analysis, spanning greybox fuzzing, concolic execution, binary analysis, and large language models to systematically discover and repair vulnerabilities in real-world systems. I am a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, working with Prof. Tiffany Bao. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside in 2024, advised by Prof. Heng Yin.

Publications

• [S&P’26] Yibo Liu, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Arvind S Raj, Chavin Udomwongsa, Chang Zhu, Jie Hu, Changyu Zhao, Fangzhou Dong, Adam Doupé, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili, and Ruoyu Wang, Oxidizer: Toward Concise and High-fidelity Rust Decompilation, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2026.
• [SecDev’26] James Mattei, Andrew Lin, Jasper Geer, Jie Hu, Moritz Schloegel, Tiffany Bao, and Daniel Votipka, SoK: A Modularized Framework for Symbolic Execution and Application for Usable Tool Design, IEEE Secure Development Conference, 2026.
• [ISSTA’24] Yuxin Qiu, Jie Hu, Qian Zhang, and Heng Yin, Calico: Automated Knowledge Calibration and Diagnosis for Elevating AI Mastery in Code Tasks, ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, September 2024.
• [USENIX’24] Zhenxiao Qi, Jie Hu, Zhaoqi Xiao, and Heng Yin, SymFit: Making the Common (Concrete) Case Fast for Binary-Code Concolic Execution, 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
• [ICSE’24] Jie Hu, Yue Duan, and Heng Yin, Marco: A Stochastic and Asynchronous Concolic Explorer, 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, April 2024. [GitHub]
• [RAID’19] Yue Duan, Lian Gao, Jie Hu, and Heng Yin, Automatic Generation of Non-intrusive Updates for Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications, 22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, September 2019.

Preprints

• Hulin Wang, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Jie Hu, Ati Priya Bajaj, Yibo Liu, Samuel Zhu, Giorgi Kobakhia, Nikhil Chapre, Will Rosenberg, Siddharth Mishra, Aditya Maheshbhai Gabani, Moritz Schloegel, Adam Doupé, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, and Tiffany Bao, Root-Cause-Driven Automated Vulnerability Repair, arXiv, 2026.
• Ashwin Sudhir, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Wil Gibbs, Ati Priya Bajaj, Pulkit Singh Singaria, Mitchell Zakocs, Jie Hu, Moritz Schloegel, Tiffany Bao, Adam Doupe, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, Pushan: Trace-Free Deobfuscation of Virtualization-Obfuscated Binaries, arXiv, 2026.
• Jie Hu, Qian Zhang, and Heng Yin, Augmenting Greybox Fuzzing with Generative AI, arXiv, 2023.

Teaching

Arizona State University — Co-Instructor

• CSE545 — Software Security (with Moritz Schloegel and Erik Trickel) [25S]

University of California, Riverside — Teaching Assistant

• CS009A — Data Oriented Introduction to Computing I [23S]
• CS010A — Introduction to Computer Science I (C++) [23F]
• CS010B — Introduction to Computer Science II (C++) [19W]
• CS061 — Machine Organization and Assembly Language Programming [19S]
• CS153 — Design of Operating Systems [24W, 22F, 22S, 21S, 20S]
• CS165 — Computer Security [23W]
• CS179F — Project in CS: Operating Systems [21W]
• CS182 — Software Testing and Verification [20W]

Service

Program Committee:

• International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2026
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2026 (Poster)

Journal Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

External Conference Reviewer:

• S&P 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
• ISSRE 2024
• RAID 2023
• USENIX Sec 2021, 2022
• AsiaCCS 2019, 2020
• DIMVA 2019

Honors & Awards

• 2024 UCR GSA Conference Travel Grant
• 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant in CSE Department
• 2022 CCS Student Travel Grant
• 2017 Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside