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Wenxuan Shi

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Department of Computer Science

Northwestern University

Mudd 3406, Evanston, IL 60208

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I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University, advised by Dr. Xinyu Xing. My research primarily focuses on software testing. Prior to joining Northwestern, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech in 2022.

News

  1. Contributed to the 42-b3yond-6ug team’s victory in the AIxCC Semi-Finals, securing a $2 million award. I took charge of our fuzzing subsystem and the whole pipeline integration for the competition.

  2. Our team, 42-b3yond-6ug, was selected by DARPA as one of the top seven teams to receive $1 million to support our participation in the AIxCC competition.

  3. Led the BandFuzz team to first place in the 2024 SBFT Fuzzing Competition. Our fuzzer outperformed industry-standard products such as AFL++ and libFuzzer, achieving the highest score.

Publication

arXiv 2024

Harnessing Large Language Models for Seed Generation in Greybox Fuzzing

Wenxuan Shi,Yunhang Zhang,Xinyu Xing,Jun Xu


BandFuzz: A Practical Framework for Collaborative Fuzzing with Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Shi,Hongwei Li,Jiahao Yu,Wenbo Guo,Xinyu Xing


Alligator In Vest: A Practical Failure-Diagnosis Framework via Arm Hardware Features

Yiming Zhang,Yuxin Hu,Haonan Li,Wenxuan Shi,Zhenyu Ning,Xiapu Luo,Fengwei Zhang

Teaching @NU

Fall 2023

Teaching Assistant

CS340: Introduction to Computer Networks

Instructor: Esteban Carisimo

Office Hours: Fri 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mudd 3303