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I have been fortunate to work with many talented students. Below are the students from my lab (SURFI: Security-gUided
Reasoning and learnIng), as well as those closely working with me on multiple projects. Please refer to my publication
list for other students that I have collaborated with.
Yuheng Tang [NeurIPS'25-1*, NeurIPS'25-2, ICML'25-1]
Top 2 open-weighted models on SWE-benchTop 5 open-source tool on SWE-bench
Kaijie Zhu (Co-advise with William Wang) [NeurIPS'25-1, ICML'25-2*]
KAUST Rising Stars in AI
Hongwei Li [NeurIPS'25-1, ICML'25-1*]
Top 1 in SBFT Fuzzing Tool CompetitionAIxCC Top 7Top 5 open-source tool on
SWE-benchTop 2 open-weighted models on SWE-bench
Yuzhou Nie [NeurIPS'25-2*, EMNLP'25, COLM'25*, NeurIPS'24]
FAR AI Ph.D. scholarshipTop 1 in UC
Berkeley LLM Agent Hackathon
Xuan Chen (Student of Prof. Xiangyu Zhang) [NeurIPS'25-3, NeurIPS'24,
NeurIPS'23]
I also work closely with great students from UCSB SecLab
[Ravindu: USENIX'24]
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to the following organizations for their generous support of our research (listed by alphabet).
