Email: ningyu.he[at]polyu.edu.hk
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💡 I am actively looking for highly motivated short-term Research Assistants (3 months) to work on WebAssembly or Blockchain security. The primary goal is to target top-tier software engineering and security venues.
I am a Research Assistant Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), and work with Prof. Daniel Xiapu Luo. I have obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Software and Theory from Peking University. I'm advised by Prof. Yao Guo, and co-advised by Prof. Haoyu Wang and Prof. Ding Li. My research interests mainly focus on the security side of Web3 topics, like blockchain and WebAssembly, as shown in the below research map. I am serving or have served as program committee members and reviewers for top-tier conferences and journals, including USENIX Security, NDSS, ICSE, ASE, TOSEM, and TDSC.
I have published 25+ peer-reviewed paper, and been awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for ISSTA 2023, National Scholarship, and Outstanding Graduate of Beijing*.* Also, I'm interested in photography, you're welcomed to check my homepage on Unsplash to grab photos!
Research map of my representative published work (as of Dec. 2025).
<aside> 💡 27 papers in total, 15 of them are as (co)first/(co)corresponding author, 16 of them are published on CSRankings conferences, 2 Best/Distinguished Paper Award.
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The * indicates the co-first authors, # indicates the corresponding authors.