Yiming Shen / 申一鸣
Yiming Shen / 申一鸣
Security Research Intern
@Ant Group (Alipay), Graduate Student (Master)
@Sun Yat-sen University
Ant A Space, No.569 Xixi Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
📭 shenym7[at]mail2.sysu.edu.cn
💻 Github
I am Yiming Shen, a first-year graduate student at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, under the supervision of Associate Professor Jiachi Chen (陈嘉弛) and Assistant Professor Yanlin Wang (王焱林). Currently, I'm working as a Security Research Intern at the Skyward Lab of Ant Group.
My research interests center on domain-oriented software security, specifically LLM4Security and program analysis for blockchain and LLM applications.
I am seeking Ph.D. opportunities for Fall 2027. Please contact me if you are interested.
Sun Yat-sen University Graduate Student (Master's Degree) in Software Engineering (Advisor: Jiachi Chen & Yanlin Wang), since Sept. 2024.
Hainan University B.Sc. in Cybersecurity & Cryptography (Advisor: Xiaoqi Li), from Sept. 2020 to Jun. 2024.
Security Research Intern at Ant Group. Working on LLM-driven Web3 bug hunting since Jun. 2025
FORGE: An LLM-driven Framework for Large-Scale Smart Contract Vulnerability Dataset Construction
Jiachi Chen, Yiming Shen (Student First Author), Jiashuo Zhang*, Zihao Li, John Grundy, Zhenzhe Shao, Yanlin Wang, Jiashui Wang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng
[The 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26), CCF A, Direct Acceptance Rate 9.2% (60/646)][pdf][code]
Demystifying and Detecting Cryptographic Defects in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Jiashuo Zhang, Yiming Shen, Jiachi Chen*, Jianzhong Su, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Jianbo Gao*, Zhong Chen*
[The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25), CCF A, Direct Acceptance Rate 9.1% (46/508),
🏆ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award🏆][pdf][code]
Beyond the Protocol: Unveiling Attack Vectors in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Ecosystem
Hao Song ||, Yiming Shen ||, Wenxuan Luo, Leixin Guo, Ting Chen*, Jiashui Wang, Beibei Li, Xiaosong Zhang, Jiachi Chen* [arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02040, 2025][pdf][code]
When Crypto Fails: Demystifying Cryptographic Defects in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Jiashuo Zhang, Jiachi Chen, Yiming Shen, Tao Zhang, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Jianbo Gao, Zhong Chen
[IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE'25), CCF A][pdf][code]
NumScout: Unveiling Numerical Defects in Smart Contracts using LLM-Pruning Symbolic Execution
Jiachi Chen, Zhenzhe Shao, Shuo Yang, Yiming Shen, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Zhenyu Shan, Zibin Zheng
[IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE'25), CCF A][pdf][code]
2025, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE'25)
2025, ETH Hangzhou Hackathon, Top 5 with CyraAI project
2024, DataCon Big Data Security Analysis Competition, Third Prize
2024, Sun Yat-sen University First-class Scholarship
2024, Cycling Around Hainan Island - 7 days 6 nights - 960 kilometers
2023, WuXu Prize at Hainan University (Top 0.1%)
2023, National College Student Information Security Competition, National Third Prize
2022, ByteCTF (ByteDance SRC), National Ranking 50th
2022, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National Second Prize