Hi there!
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. My research focuses on the intersection of computer security and machine learning, particularly in automated vulnerability discovery, analysis and prevention.
You can find a recent portrait of me here.
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 fortunate to work with Dr. Yueming Wu on source-code-level vulnerability discovery and clone detection. I also completed my B.Eng. in Information Security at HUST in 2020.
Publications#
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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#
- The Ohio State University
- 2026 Spring: CSE5236 Mobile Application Development, Graduate Teaching Associate
- 2025 Autumn: ECE5561/CSE5471 Introduction to Cybersecurity, Graduate Teaching Associate
- 2025 Spring: ECE5561/CSE5471 Introduction to Cybersecurity, Graduate Teaching Associate
Contact Me#
The best way to contact me is via email:
fang [dot] 1007 [at] osu [dot] eduIf necessary, my PGP key is:
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Last updated: 2026-07-13