Hongchen Cao
1A-513, SIST
Zhongke Road, Pudong
Shanghai, China
I am a third-year master’s student in the School of Information Science and Technology at the ShanghaiTech University under the supervision of Prof. Jingzhu He. I received my BS degree from ShanghaiTech University in 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Yutian Tang from 2020.12 to 2022.9.
My research interests lie in Software Engineering, especially Cloud Availability & Reliability.
news
| Mar 8, 2026 | Our paper entitled “Themis: Detecting Distributed Concurrency Bugs through RPC-Driven Race-Directed Test Generation and Fuzzing” has been accepted by NSDI’26! |
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| Sep 1, 2025 | Our paper entitled “STaint: Detecting Second-Order Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications with LLM-Assisted Bi-Directional Static Taint Analysis” has been accepted by ASE’25-NIER! |
| Mar 23, 2025 | Our paper entitled “Characterising Bugs in Jupyter Platform” has been accepted by EASE’25! |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Our paper entitled “QueueFlower: Orchestrating Microservice Workflows via Dynamic Queue Balancing” has been accepted by IEEE ICWS’24! |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Our paper entitled “POBO: Safe and Optimal Resource Management for Cloud Microservices” has been accepted by IFIP Performance’23! |
selected publications
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2026
- NSDI’26Themis: Detecting Distributed Concurrency Bugs through RPC-Driven Race-Directed Test Generation and FuzzingProceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’26), 2026
2023
- Performance’23POBO: Safe and Optimal Resource Management for Cloud MicroservicesThe 41st International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation, 2023
- JSEPCheating your apps: Black-box adversarial attacks on deep learning appsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2023