Zirui Chen

Zirui Chen 陈梓瑞

Ph.D. Student in Software Engineering

Zhejiang University

Portrait of Zirui Chen

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Xiaohu Yang, Prof. Xing Hu, and Prof. Xin Xia. Previously, I received my B.S. in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University.

My research focuses on library vulnerabilities and agent trajectories. My recent work identified over 1,500 confirmed missing affected versions in CPE.

chenzirui@zju.edu.cn Google Scholar GitHub

Education

Ph.D. in Software Engineering

Zhejiang University, China

Sep. 2023 – Present

B.S. in Software Engineering

Zhejiang University, China

Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2023

National Scholarship · 2024

Research

Agent Trajectory

Recovering useful progress from failed code-agent trajectories.

  1. Trajectory
    Refinement

    Refploit Under Review

Selected
Publications

Replication packages are provided as Docker images whenever available.

TOSEM 2026 CCF-A

Generating Mitigations for Downstream Projects to Neutralize Upstream Library Vulnerability

Zirui Chen, Xing Hu, Puhua Sun, Xin Xia, Xiaohu Yang

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Accepted

Paper Code
ASE 2026 CCF-A

Assessing the Cross-Version Applicability of Java Library Vulnerability Exploits

Zirui Chen, Qi Zhan, Jiayuan Zhou, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Xiaohu Yang

41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Direct acceptance rate: 115/1236 = 9.3%

Paper Artifact
ICSE 2026 CCF-A

Diffploit: Facilitating Cross-Version Exploit Migration for Open Source Library Vulnerabilities

Zirui Chen, Zhipeng Xue, Jiayuan Zhou, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Xiaohu Yang

48th International Conference on Software Engineering

Direct acceptance rate at Cycle 2: 72/795 = 9.1%

Paper Code
TOSEM 2025 CCF-A

Every Maintenance Has Its Exemplar: The Future of Software Maintenance through Migration

Zirui Chen, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Xiaohu Yang

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

ICSE 2024 CCF-A

Exploiting Library Vulnerability via Migration Based Automating Test Generation

Zirui Chen, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Yi Gao, Tongtong Xu, David Lo, Xiaohu Yang

46th International Conference on Software Engineering

Acceptance rate: 234/1051 = 22.3%

Paper Code

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) CCF-A
  • Journal of Software: Evolution and Process CCF-B
  • International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering CCF-C