Chaoyuan Peng

Chaoyuan Peng is a Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Yajin Zhou and Lei Wu. His interests span AI for security, systems security, browser security, and web3 security. He has uncovered more than 80 fixed vulnerabilities in Chrome, more than 30 fixed vulnerabilities in AOSP, and several critical vulnerabilities in mainstream blockchain clients.

He is currently a research intern at Qwen. Previously, he interned at BlockSec, Ant Group, and GOSSIP.

He is an Ethereum Protocol Fellow (2024) and a former Vice-President of the ZJU Blockchain Association.

Publications

  1. Re-Evaluating EVMBench: Are AI Agents Ready for Smart Contract Security?

    Chaoyuan Peng, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou

    arXiv 2026 · Paper

  2. Thought Is All You Need: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Thought-Augmented Large Language Model

    Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu

    ACM FSE 2026 · Paper

  3. Beyond the Surface: Towards Feature-Driven Fuzzing on the Chrome Browser

    Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu

    ISSTA 2026

  4. Toss a Fault to BpfChecker: Revealing Implementation Flaws for eBPF runtimes with Differential Fuzzing

    Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou

    ACM CCS 2024 · Paper

Awards

  • Chrome VRP Top 20 Security Researcher, 2022 and 2024
  • Google VRP Top 50 Security Researcher, 2022 to present
  • Android Top 50 Security Researcher, 2021 and 2022

Contact

Email
ret2happy@gmail.com
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