Research Professor at ZJU

Mingxue ZHANG (张明雪)

About Me

I am currently a tenure-track research professor at the School of Cyber Science and Technology in Zhejiang University. My research interests include web security (e.g., program analysis for scripting languages, abnormal script detection, etc.) and software security (e.g., compliance analysis, vulnerability detection, etc.).

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022, where I was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Wei Meng. Prior to CUHK, I received my B.Eng in Computer Science and Technology from Wuhan University (Hongyi Talent Class) in 2018.

Recruiment

I am looking for mentally healthy, self-motivated, and smart Ph.D. and master students who have strong programming skills. You may find more information about our application and admission process here.

💡 Please note that our group works on technically challenging problems. I would provide support and help whenever necessary. In the meanwhile, I expect the students to have solid background in computer science, be willing to learn, and be prepared to overcome challenges.

💡 Also, we have several application cycles for both Ph.D. and master students, and we welcome undergraduate students who wish to publish at top-tier conferences to join us. However, we only have a few openings each year. Therefore, if you are interested, please contact me via email as early as possible.

News

  • [2025.03] Our paper on POI patch generation has been accepted by SP’25. Congrats!
  • [2024.10] Our CCS’24 paper received the Distinguished Paper Award!
  • [2024.09] Our paper on Android malware detection has been accepted by TIFS. Congrats!
  • [2024.08] Our paper on DNS tunnel detection has been accepted by TIFS. Congrats!
  • [2024.04] I am on the Program Committee of NDSS’25.

Services

Teaching

  • Software Security, Spring 2024, 2025
  • Introduction to Cyber Security (Part I. Network Security), Spring 2024, 2025
  • Object-oriented Programming in C++, Fall 2024

Conference Program Committee Member

  • The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2025)
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025)
  • International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)
  • SecWeb Workshop 2024
  • ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundation of Software Engineering/ European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2023)

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC 2025)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC 2024)
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS 2024)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON 2023)
  • Empirical Software Engineering (ESE 2022)