Zhentao Xie
Ph.D. Student
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
About
I am a Ph.D. student in Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Kehuan Zhang.
My research interests include mobile security, LLM-based security analysis, and binary security. I am particularly interested in building practical analysis techniques for Android apps, mini-programs, and security detection workflows.
Before joining CUHK, I received my M.Eng in Cyber Science and Technology from Shandong University, advised by Prof. Wenrui Diao, and my B.Eng in Network Engineering from South China Normal University.
Selected Publications
View All →Mini-Programs, Mega-Problems: Unveiling OAuth Misuses in Mini-Programs via Dynamic Analysis
Zidong Zhang, Zhentao Xie, Lingyun Ying, Qinsheng Hou, Yacong Gu, Wenrui Diao, Jianliang Wu
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, June 2026
Co-first author. Dynamic analysis of OAuth misuses in mini-program ecosystems.
RuleDroid: LLM-Augmented Automatic Generation of Android Security Detection Rules
Zhentao Xie, Mingyang Chen, Shishuai Yang, Yaqi Gao, Wenrui Diao, Xiangyu Liu, Kehuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, May 2026
LLM-augmented automatic generation of Android security detection rules.
Structure-Guided Semantic Deobfuscation of Android Identifiers
Mingyang Chen, Zhentao Xie, Yaqi Gao, Wenrui Diao
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2026
Structure-guided semantic deobfuscation of Android identifiers.
News
Our paper on Android identifier deobfuscation was accepted to ASE 2026.
Our paper on OAuth misuses in mini-programs was accepted to ACM CCS 2026.
Our RuleDroid work appeared in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Received the 2025 National Scholarship for Master Students.
Won First Prize, Second Place, in the Software Supply Chain Security Track of DataCon2025.