Hi there, I’m Frank Wu
🏫 Second year PhD student @UCR, advised by Prof. Zhiyun Qian.
💻 Currently exploring System Security & Program Analysis in [UCR Security Lab]
✨ I’m interested about Automation & Reversing & Binary Exploitation
🔑 GPG ID: F3361E0E712472BB01957DFBC252135B3B91FF1D
🏫 Bachelor at @SUSTech
In [Teecert Lab], advised by Prof. Yinqian Zhang.
Graduate with honors (🏅Outstanding Graduate; 🏅Distinguished UG Thesis).
Selected Publications
Full list on Google Scholar
2024
- [ESORICS’24] SAEG: Stateful Automatic Exploit Generation
Yifan Wu, Yinshuai Li, Hong Zhu, Yinqian Zhang
29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Sep. 2024.
[Paper PDF] [SAEG Source Code] [Presentation Video]
Competition Awards
[2025] 16th Flare-on 12
[2025] 5th DEFCON 33 Finals (RePokemonedCollections)
Teaching Experiences
- [2023 Fall] CS315: Computer Security (TA, 🏅Outstanding Teaching Assistant),
Some course materials designed by me (more about it):- Buffer Overflow: Lecture | Lab instruction | Lab attachments
- Return-to-libc: Lecture | Lab instruction | Lab attachments
- Fuzzing & Symbolic Execution: Lecture | Lab instruction | Lab attachments
- [2022 Spring] CS102A: Introduction to Computer Programming A (TA)
- [2020 Spring] CS102A: Introduction to Computer Programming A (TA)