# Yajin Zhou | CUHK

> Personal site of Yajin Zhou, associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Research on operating systems, blockchain infrastructure, and AI agent systems. Co-founder of BlockSec. 70+ papers, 11,000+ citations. Test-of-Time Award, IEEE S&P 2026.

Contact: yajin@ie.cuhk.edu.hk, yajin@yajin.org
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N1oeOPwAAAAJ
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/15/7381.html

## Site

- [Homepage](https://yajin.org/): About, research, impact, publications
- [Blog](https://yajin.org/blog/): Notes on AI agents, security research, engineering
- [Sitemap](https://yajin.org/sitemap.xml): Complete URL list
- [Full text](https://yajin.org/llms-full.txt): Site content as a single Markdown file

## Blog Posts

- [The AI Era Demands Real Engineers](https://yajin.org/blog/2026-03-25-real-engineers-ai-era/) — 2026-03-25
- [Claude Code's Confession: Why an AI Agent Broke Its Own Rules](https://yajin.org/blog/2026-03-22-why-ai-agents-break-rules/) — 2026-03-22
- [Can AI Audit Smart Contracts? What We Found When We Tested It](https://yajin.org/blog/2026-03-18-ai-smart-contract-audit-reevmbench/) — 2026-03-18

## Recent Publications (2025–2026)

- [SmartSched: Fine-Grained and Deterministic Parallel Execution for Smart Contracts](https://yajin.org/papers/middleware2026_smartsched.pdf) — Middleware 2026
- [Thought is All You Need: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Thought-Augmented Large Language Model](https://yajin.org/papers/fse2026_synapse.pdf) — FSE 2026
- [GenDetect: Generalizing Reactive Detection for Resilience Against Imitative DeFi Attack Cascade](https://yajin.org/papers/icse2026_gendetect.pdf) — ICSE 2026
- [Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible Blockchains (Best Paper Award Runner-Up, 5/81)](https://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml) — SIGMETRICS 2026
- [Unmasking the Shadow Economy: A Deep Dive into Drainer-as-a-Service Phishing on Ethereum](https://yajin.org/papers/imc2025_daas.pdf) — IMC 2025
- [Minoris: Practical Out-of-Emulator Kernel Module Fuzzing](https://yajin.org/papers/tdsc2025_minoris.pdf) — TDSC 2025
- [Detecting DBMS Bugs with Context-Sensitive Instantiation and Multi-Plan Execution](https://yajin.org/papers/cose2025_dbms.pdf) — Computers & Security 2025
- [NLSaber: Enhancing Netlink Family Fuzzing via Automated Syscall Description Generation](https://yajin.org/papers/esorics2025_nlsaber.pdf) — ESORICS 2025
- [DejaVuzz: Disclosing Transient Execution Bugs with Dynamic Swappable Memory and Differential Information Flow Tracking Assisted Processor Fuzzing](https://yajin.org/papers/asplos2025_dejavuzz.pdf) — ASPLOS 2025
- [Harness: Transparent and Lightweight Protection of Vehicle Control on Untrusted Android Automotive Operating System](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-gong-haochen.pdf) — USENIX Security 2025
- [Surviving in Dark Forest: Towards Evading the Attacks from Front‑Running Bots in Application Layer](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-ma-zuchao.pdf) — USENIX Security 2025
- [TOCS: RegVault II: Achieving Hardware-Assisted Selective Kernel Data Randomization for Multiple Architectures](https://yajin.org/papers/tocs2025_regvault.pdf) — 2025
- [HarDTAPE: Hardware Dedicated Trusted transAction Pre-Executor](https://yajin.org/papers/icdcs2025_hardtape.pdf) — ICDCS 2025
- [Phishing Tactics Are Evolving: An Empirical Study of Phishing Contracts on Ethereum](https://yajin.org/papers/sigmetrics2025_phishing.pdf) — SIGMETRICS 2025
- [Towards Understanding and Analyzing Instant Cryptocurrency Exchanges](https://yajin.org/papers/sigmetrics2025_exchange.pdf) — SIGMETRICS 2025
- [Piecing Together the Jigsaw Puzzle of Transactions on Heterogeneous Blockchain Networks](https://yajin.org/papers/sigmetrics2025_jigsaw.pdf) — SIGMETRICS 2025
- [Dissecting Payload‑based Transaction Phishing on Ethereum](https://yajin.org/papers/ndss2025_ptxphish.pdf) — NDSS 2025
- [ParallelEVM: Operation‑Level Concurrent Transaction Execution for EVM‑Compatible Blockchains](https://yajin.org/papers/eurosys2025_parallelevm.pdf) — EuroSys 2025

## Optional

- [Complete publication list](#complete): See llms-full.txt or https://yajin.org/#publications
- [BlockSec](https://blocksec.com/): Blockchain security & compliance company Yajin co-founded