SURFI@UCSB

🏠 Home 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.

Ph.D students

Yuheng Tang [ICML'25-1]
Top 2 open-weighted models on SWE-bench Top 5 open-source tool on SWE-bench
Kaijie Zhu (Co-advise with William Wang) [ICML'25-2]
KAUST Rising Stars in AI
Hongwei Li [ICML'25-1]
Top 1 in SBFT Fuzzing Tool Competition AIxCC Top 7 Top 5 open-source tool on SWE-bench Top 2 open-weighted models on SWE-bench
Yuzhou Nie [EMNLP'25, COLM'25, NeurIPS'24]
FAR AI Ph.D. scholarship Top 1 in UC Berkeley LLM Agent Hackathon
Xuan Chen (Student of Prof. Xiangyu Zhang) [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).