Xinda Wang (王新达)
Xinda Wang (王新达)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
Email: xinda [dot] wang [at] utdallas [dot] edu
Office: ECSS 4.705
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I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. My research interest is software security, with a focus on applying machine/deep learning for vulnerability detection, patch management, program analysis, etc. I am also interested in AI security and systems security. I received the NSF CAREER Award in 2026. I earned my Ph.D. degree from George Mason University in 2023, advised by Dr. Kun Sun at the Center of Secure Information System and honored with Outstanding Dissertation Award. I got my B.E. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017.
I am looking for self-motivated PhD students starting from Spring/Fall 2027. Experience in AI/LLM and software/systems security is preferred. If you are interested, please send your CV and transcripts to xinda dot wang at utdallas dot edu.
News
[07/2026] Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award. Thanks NSF!
[06/2026] One paper "Why Not Fix It Once and for All? An Empirical Study of Multiple Patches for Vulnerability Fixes in Open-Source Software" accepted by ESORICS 2026. Congrats to Weiliang and Youpeng!
[06/2026] Invited to serve in the TPC for USENIX Security 2027.
[05/2026] Invited to serve on an NSF panel.
[04/2026] Invited to serve in the TPC for DSN 2027.
[03/2026] Invited to serve in the TPC for RAID 2026 and IEEE S&P 2027.
[01/2026] Honored to organize 1st Workshop on Datasets for Software Security (Data4SoftSec), co-located with IEEE S&P 2026.
[12/2025] Invited to serve in the TPC for ICDCS 2026.
[11/2025] One paper "Revisiting Pre-trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection" accepted by AsiaCCS 2026. Congrats to Youpeng and Weiliang!
[11/2025] Invited to serve in the TPC for ESORICS 2026.
[10/2025] Invited to serve as the Proceedings Co-chair for CCS 2026 and ESORICS 2026.
[09/2025] Two papers titled "MAVUL: Multi-Agent Vulnerability Detection via Contextual Reasoning and Interactive Refinement" and "NatGVD: Natural Adversarial Example Attack towards Graph-based Vulnerability Detection" accepted by TPS 2025. Congrats to Youpeng, Avilash, and Weiliang!
[09/2025] Invited to serve as Associate Editor for Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (DMAA).
[09/2025] Invited to serve in the TPC for CCS 2026.
[09/2025] Our vulnerability and patch datasets (D0V, PatchDB) are selected by Google DeepMind to evaluate Gemini 1.5 and by NSF as 1 of 10 datasets for integration into NAIRR Pilot to power AI literacy, education, and innovation.
[08/2025] One paper "VPGFUZZ: Vulnerable Path-Guided Greybox Fuzzing" accepted by TIFS.
[07/2025] Our proposal on "An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Software Vulnerability Detection and Remediation" is funded by NSF CIRC Planning-C Program (Lead PI). Thanks NSF!
[04/2025] Led a group of 11 female students and faculty members to the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference. Thanks UTD CS's support as Platinum Sponsor for WiCyS 2025!
[04/2025] One paper "An Empirical Study of Multi-Language Security Patches in Open Source Software" accepted by DIMVA 2025.
[04/2025] Invited to serve in the TPC for Usenix Security 2026 and DSN 2026.
[01/2025] One paper "DISPATCH: Unraveling Security Patches from Entangled Code Changes" accepted by USENIX Security 2025.
[10/2024] One paper "FedCAP: Robust Federated Learning via Customized Aggregation and Personalization" accepted by ACSAC 2024. Congrats Youpeng on receiving the ACSAC 2024 Student Conferenceship to present our work in Hawaii!
[09/2024] One paper "Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation" accepted by SecureComm 2024. Congrats to Weiliang!
[04/2024] One paper "Bridging the Gap: A Study of AI-based Vulnerability Management between Industry and Academia", in collaboration with Meta security researchers, accepted by DSN 2024 Industry Track.
[11/2023] Our paper "BinGo: Identifying Security Patches in Binary Code with Graph Representation Learning" accepted by AsiaCCS 2024.
[08/2023] Received Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) 2023 Faculty Scholarship.
Publications
Publications
(Underlined: PhD students at UTD. **co-first author)
Why Not Fix It Once and for All? An Empirical Study of Multiple Patches for Vulnerability Fixes in Open-Source Software.
Weiliang Qi, Youpeng Li, and Xinda Wang.
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2026.
Revisiting Pre-trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection. [paper]
Youpeng Li, Weiliang Qi, Xuyu Wang, Fuxun Yu, and Xinda Wang.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 26), 2026.
NatGVD: Natural Adversarial Example Attack towards Graph-based Vulnerability Detection. [paper]
Avilash Rath, Weiliang Qi, Youpeng Li, and Xinda Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS), 2025.
MAVUL: Multi-Agent Vulnerability Detection via Contextual Reasoning and Interactive Refinement. [paper]
Youpeng Li, Kartik Joshi, Xinda Wang, and Eric Wong.
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS), 2025.
DISPATCH: Unraveling Security Patches from Entangled Code Changes. [paper]
Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Qi Li, and Kun Sun.
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2025.
VPGFuzz: Vulnerable Path-Guided Greybox Fuzzing. [paper]
Zhechao Lin, Jiahao Cao, Xinda Wang, Renjie Xie, Yuxi Zhu, Xiao Li, Qi Li, Yangyang Wang, and Mingwei Xu.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025.
An Empirical Study of Multi-Language Security Patches in Open Source Software. [paper]
Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, Grant Zou, Xinda Wang, and Kun Sun.
SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), 2025.
FedCAP: Robust Federated Learning via Customized Aggregation and Personalization. [paper]
Youpeng Li, Xinda Wang, Fuxun Yu, Lichao Sun, Wenbin Zhang, and Xuyu Wang.
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2024.
Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation. [paper]
Weiliang Qi, Jiahao Cao, Darsh Poddar, Sophia Li, and Xinda Wang.
EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2024.
Bridging the Gap: A Study of AI-based Vulnerability Management between Industry and Academia. [paper] [video]
Shengye Wan, Joshua Saxe, Craig Gomes, Sahana Chennabasappa, Avilash Rath, Kun Sun, and Xinda Wang.
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Industry Track (DSN-Industry), 2024.
BinGo: Identifying Security Patches in Binary Code with Graph Representation Learning. [paper]
Xu He, Shu Wang, Pengbin Feng, Xinda Wang, Shiyu Sun, Qi Li, and Kun Sun.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2024.
GraphSPD: Graph-Based Security Patch Detection with Enriched Code Semantics. [paper] [code] [website]
Shu Wang**, Xinda Wang**, Kun Sun, Sushil Jajodia, Haining Wang, and Qi Li.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023.
Shiyu Sun, Shu Wang, Xinda Wang, Yunlong Xing, Elisa Zhang, and Kun Sun.
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2023.
DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs. [paper]
Xinda Wang, Kyeong Kim, Ye Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, and Kieran Parsons.
IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), 2023.
Yunlong Xing**, Xinda Wang**, Sadegh Torabi, Zeyu Zhang, Lingguang Lei, and Kun Sun.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023.
SysCap: Profiling and Crosschecking Syscall and Capability Configurations for Docker Images. [paper]
Yunlong Xing, Jiahao Cao, Xinda Wang, Sadegh Torabi, Kun Sun, Fei Yan, and Qi Li.
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022.
Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Pengbin Feng, Kun Sun, Sushil Jajodia, Sanae Benchaaboun, and Frank Geck.
IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2021.
Xinda Wang**, Shu Wang**, Pengbin Feng, Kun Sun, and Sushil Jajodia.
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021.
A Machine Learning Approach to Classify Security Patches into Vulnerability Types. [paper] [dataset]
Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia.
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020.
(Best Paper Award Nomination)
Detecting "0-Day" Vulnerability: An Empirical Study of Secret Security Patch in OSS. [paper] [dataset] [code]
Xinda Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia.
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2019.
An Empirical Study of Secret Security Patch in Open Source Software. [paper]
Xinda Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia.
Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems (pp. 269-289). Springer, Cham, 2020.
Teaching
Teaching
Spring 2024 - 2026: CS/SE 4347 - Database Systems
Fall 2024 - 2026: CS 6301 - Secure Software Development
Fall 2023: CS 6301 - AI and Software Security
Academic Services
Academic Services
Organizing Committee: CCS 2024/2026, ESORICS 2026, Data4SoftSec 2026
Program Committee: Usenix Security 2025-2027, S&P 2025/2027, CCS 2026, ESORICS 2026, RAID 2024/2026, DSN 2024-2027, AsiaCCS 2024-2026, ICDCS 2024-2026, Middleware 2026, NDSS-MADWeb 2024
Associate Editor: Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms & Applications (DMAA)
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
NSF CAREER Award (2026)
GHC Faculty Scholarship (2023)
CSIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (2023)
IEEE S&P Student Travel Grant (2023)
GHC Student Scholarship (2022)
Tapia Scholarship (2022, 2018)
IEEE MILCOM Student Travel Grant (2021)
IEEE CNS Best Paper Award Nomination (2020)
IMC Suneeth Nayak Scholarship (2020)
Top Winning Award of IEEE SERVICES Hackathon (2020)
IEEE DSN Student Travel Award (2019)
Outstanding Graduate Award of Harbin Institute of Technology (2017)
Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Heilongjiang Province (2016)
Nubia Scholarship (2016)
Huawei Technologies Scholarship (2015)
Fuji Xerox Scholarship (2014)
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