Ph.D. Student · Software Engineering

Zirui Chen 陈梓瑞

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at Zhejiang University. I am fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Xiaohu Yang, Prof. Xing Hu, and Prof. Xin Xia. My recent work identified over 1,500 confirmed missing affected versions in CPE. Previously, I obtained my B.S. in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University.

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Library Vulnerability Agent Trajectory

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Education

My academic journey at Zhejiang University.

Sep. 2023 — Present

Ph.D. in Software Engineering

Zhejiang University, China

Sep. 2019 — Jun. 2023

B.S. in Software Engineering

Zhejiang University, China

National Scholarship · 2024

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Research

My research is organized around two connected lines of work.

Research Line 02

Agent Trajectory

Recovering useful progress from failed code-agent trajectories.

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Trajectory
Refinement

Refploit Under Review

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Selected Publications

Replication packages are provided as Docker images whenever available.

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 ASE 2026

Direct acceptance rate: 115/1236 = 9.3%

Paper ↗ Artifact ↗
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 ICSE 2026

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

Paper ↗ Code ↗
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 ICSE 2024

Acceptance rate: 234/1051 = 22.3%

Paper ↗ Code ↗
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 TOSEM 2025

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Academic Service

Journal peer-review service.

Reviewer
  • International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering CCF-C
  • Journal of Software: Evolution and Process CCF-B