I am a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Xiangyu Zhang. My current research interest mainly lies in network and software security, especially for protocols and binaries. Before coming to Purdue, I received my M.S. and B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from EECS, Peking University.

Publications [Google Scholar] [Full List]

• ROCAS: Root Cause Analysis of Autonomous Driving Accidents via Cyber-Physical Co-mutation
  Shiwei Feng, Yapeng Ye, Qingkai Shi, Zhiyuan Cheng, Xiangzhe Xu, Siyuan Cheng, Hongjun Choi, Xiangyu Zhang
  The 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024)
  Sacramento, CA, USA, October 2024
  🎖 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• Cost-effective Attack Forensics by Recording and Correlating File System Changes
  Le Yu, Yapeng Ye, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
  The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2024)
  Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024
  
• CodeArt: Better Code Models by Attention Regularization When Symbols Are Lacking
  Zian Su, Xiangzhe Xu, Ziyang Huang, Zhuo Zhang, Yapeng Ye, Jianjun Huang, Xiangyu Zhang
  The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024)
  Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, July 2024
  
• FuzzInMem: Fuzzing Programs via In-memory Structures
  Xuwei Liu, Wei You, Yapeng Ye, Zhuo Zhang, Jianjun Huang, Xiangyu Zhang
  IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024)
  Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024
  
• PEM: Representing Binary Program Semantics for Similarity Analysis via A Probabilistic Execution Model
  Xiangzhe Xu, Zhou Xuan, Shiwei Feng, Siyuan Cheng, Yapeng Ye, Qingkai Shi, Guanhong Tao, Le Yu, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
  The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
  San Francisco, California, USA, December 2023
  
• Lifting Network Protocol Implementation to Precise Format Specification with Security Applications
  Qingkai Shi, Junyang Shao, Yapeng Ye, Mingwei Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang
  The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023)
  Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2023
  
• Pelican: Exploiting Backdoors of Naturally Trained Deep Learning Models In Binary Code Analysis
  Zhuo Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Guangyu Shen, Shengwei An, Qiuling Xu, Yingqi Liu, Yapeng Ye, Yaoxuan Wu, Xiangyu Zhang
  The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2023)
  Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2023 [pdf]
  
• Improving Binary Code Similarity Transformer Models by Semantics-driven Instruction Deemphasis
  Xiangzhe Xu, Shiwei Feng, Yapeng Ye, Guangyu Shen, Zian Su, Siyuan Cheng, Guanhong Tao, Qingkai Shi, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
  The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2023)
  Seattle, Washington, USA, July 2023
  
• D-ARM: Disassembling ARM Binaries by Lightweight Superset Instruction Interpretation and Graph Modeling
  Yapeng Ye, Zhuo Zhang, Qingkai Shi, Yousra Aafer, Xiangyu Zhang
  The 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2023)
  San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2023 [pdf]
  
• OSPREY: Recovery of Variable and Data Structure via Probabilistic Analysis for Stripped Binary
  Zhuo Zhang, Yapeng Ye, Wei You, Guanhong Tao, Wen-chuan Lee, Yonghwi Kwon, Yousra Aafer, Xiangyu Zhang
  The 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2021)
  Virtually, May 2021 [pdf]
  
• NetPlier: Probabilistic Network Protocol Reverse Engineering from Message Traces
  Yapeng Ye, Zhuo Zhang, Fei Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
  The 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2021)
  Virtually, February 2021 [pdf]
  

Teaching

• CS 18200 Foundations Of Computer Science, Purdue University: Fall 2018, Spring 2019
• CS 42200 Computer Networks, Purdue University: Spring 2018

Services

• Program Committee Member
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2024
• Artifact Evaluation Program Committee Member
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023
• Reviewer
Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)