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Xiangyu Zhang
CTO
Research & Recognition Highlights
Authored/co-authored 250+ publications in top cyber security, software engineering, and AI venues including ICSE, FSE, ASE, CCS, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, NDSS, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR
Over $16 million in research funding (personal share only), funded by DARPA, IARPA, Office of Naval Research (ONR), US AIR FORCE, NSF, Amazon, Cisco, Locky Martin, BAE
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006) — the highest honor for a PhD dissertation in the area of programming languages
Supervisor of ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Awards (2017 and 2024) — the highest honor for a PhD dissertation in the area of cyber security
NSF Career Award (2008)
Distinguished Paper Awards in top Security, Software Engineering, AI venues such as CCS, USENIX SECURITY, NDSS, FSE, ASE, ICSE, ICML, NeurIPS
Winner of 18 out of 24 competition rounds for IARPA/NIST TrojAI competition (2020–2024), competed against 10+ elite teams including UC Berkeley and Stanford Research Institute
Winner of Amazon Nova Trusted AI Challenge Redteaming Track (2025), selected among 91 global teams, finalist alongside CMU, UIUC, Columbia, and others. $250,000 cash prize
Zhuo Zhang
VP AI Research
Academic Awards
ASE 2024 Distinguished Reviewer Award
ACM SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM SIGSAC
CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
ACM SIGSAC
CSAW 2021 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists
The NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Emil Stefanov Memorial Partial Fellowship
Purdue University
OOPSLA 2019 Distinguished Paper Award
ACM SIGPLAN
Zhiyuan Honor Degree of B.Sc. in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Selected Capture-The-Flag (CTF)
1st place at Paradigm CTF 2023 (w/ Offside Labs)
1st place at DEFCON CTF 2020 (w/ A*0*E)
1st place at the 40th IEEE S&P Celebration Scavenger Hunt (solo)
4th place at DEFCON CTF 2018 (w/ A*0*E)
3rd place at DEFCON CTF 2017 (w/ A*0*E)
Siyuan Cheng
AI Researcher
Academic Awards
ASE 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
ACM SIGSOFT
ECCV 2022 AROW Workshop Best Paper Award
ECCV Adversarial Robustness Workshop
ICML 2026 Spotlight Paper (Top 2.2%)
ICML
Competition Records
TrojAI Competition (AI security vulnerability detection), 1st Place — 14 out of 20 rounds
NIST & IARPA
Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI, 1st Place in the Red-teaming Track
Amazon Science
GenAI: Code Challenge (Pilot), 1st Place in Round 1
NIST
GenAI: Image Challenge (Discriminator), 1st Place in Round 1
NIST
Hanxi Guo
AI Researcher
Academic
Spotlight Paper (Top 2.2%)
Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning
NeurIPS 2024 Scholar Award
Neural Information Processing Foundation
Competition
$14k Bug Bounty Granted
Amazon's Live Security Research Event
1st Place Attack Team Winner (Team Member)
Amazon Nova AI Challenge
NIST GenAI Text-to-Text (T2T) 2024 Top-3 Finalist
National Institute of Standards and Technology