Yilin Fang

About Me

Yilin Fang

Hi! I am Yilin Fang, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University (OSU), where I am a member of W3CIL Lab under the supervision of Dr. Carter Yagemann.

Prior to joining OSU, I earned my Master’s degree in Cyberspace Security from the School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2023, under the guidance of Dr. Bin Yuan. During my master’s program, it was my great fortunate to work with Dr. Yueming Wu. I also completed my Bachelor’s degree in Information Security at HUST in 2020.

Research Interest

My current research focuses on the intersection of computer security and machine learning, particularly in automated vulnerability discovery, analysis and prevention.

Publications

  1. Yilin Fang, Yiming Fan, Carter Yagemann. TraceHunter: Efficient language agnostic Verification of constant-time cryptographic implementations via processor tracing. To appear in the 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2026).
  2. Yutao Hu, Yilin Fang, Yifan Sun, Yaru Jia, Yueming Wu, Deqing Zou, Hai Jin. Code2Img: Tree-based image transformation for scalable code clone detection. Published at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
  3. Tiancheng Hu*, Zijing Xu*, Yilin Fang, Yueming Wu, Bin Yuan, Deqing Zou, Hai Jin (* indicates the students under my supervision). Fine-grained code clone detection with block-based splitting of abstract syntax tree. Appeared in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2023).
  4. Bin Yuan, Yifan Lu, Yilin Fang, Yueming Wu, Deqing Zou, Zhen Li, Zhi Li, Hai Jin. Enhancing deep learning-based vulnerability detection by building behavior graph model. Appeared in the 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023).

Teaching

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