Intro

Hi! My Chinese name is Zhiyuan Li (李志远), and my English name is Zane Lee. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS) under the supervision of Prof. Jingzheng Wu and Associate Prof. Xiang Ling. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from School of Artificial Intelligence at Xidian University in 2022.

My research interests include AI systems security and software engineering, etc. Besides, I am also exploring how to use insights from software to improve the robustness of hardware. My current work focuses on the security of deep learning libraries/compilers.

Research Interests

• Security of AI Systems
  • Security of DL libraries/compilers, LLM safety (language models and multi-modal models)
• Fuzz Testing
  • Fuzzing for everything (software and hardware), Fuzzing with LLMs

News

Nov 8, 2025🎉 Our research paper "Similarity-guided Block-level Mutation for RISC-V Processor Fuzzing" was accepted by DATE 2026. Congrats to Hao.

Nov 8, 2025🎉 Our research paper "VFCionX: Bridging Large and Small Models for Robust Vulnerability-Fixing Commit Identification" was accepted by AAAI 2026. Congrats to Xing.

Sep 16, 2025🎉 Hass Lab won the 1st place at HACK@CHES 2025.

Jun 06, 2025🎉 Our research paper "OptionFuzz: Fuzzing SMT Solvers with Optimized Option Exploration via Large Language Models" was accepted by ICSME 2025. Congrats to Yuhao.

Jun 06, 2025🎉 Our research paper "RMGenie: An LLM-Based Agent Framework for Open Source Software README Generation" was accepted by ICSME 2025. Congrats to Xing.

Publications

• [DATE'26] Similarity-guided Block-level Mutation for RISC-V Processor Fuzzing
  

         Hao Lyu, Jingzheng Wu, Xiang Ling, Yicheng Zhong, Zhiyuan Li, Tianyue Luo
         In Proceedings of the 29th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Verona, Italy
  

• [AAAI'26] VFCionX: Bridging Large and Small Models for Robust Vulnerability-Fixing Commit Identification
  

         Xing Cui, Jingzheng Wu, Wenxiang Ou, Tianyue Luo, Zhiyuan Li, Xiang Ling
         In Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore
  

• [ICSME'25] OptionFuzz: Fuzzing SMT Solvers with Optimized Option Exploration via Large Language Models
  

         Yuhao Peng, Jingzheng Wu, Xiang Ling, Zhiyuan Li, Tianyue Luo, Yanjun Wu
         In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Auckland, New Zealand
  

• [ICSME'25] RMGenie: An LLM-Based Agent Framework for Open Source Software README Generation
  

         Xing Cui, Jingzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Tianyue Luo, Xiang Ling
         In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Auckland, New Zealand
  

• [ICSE'25] The Seeds of the FUTURE Sprout from History: Fuzzing for Unveiling Vulnerabilities in Prospective
  

        Deep Learning Libraries
         [Paper] [Artifact]
         Zhiyuan Li, Jingzheng Wu, Xiang Ling, Tianyue Luo, Zhiqing Rui, Yanjun Wu
         In Proceedings of the 47th ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Software Engineering, Ottawa, Canada
         🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  

Service

• Program Committee/Reviewer
  • AAAI 2026
  • TOSEM