ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2024

Li Kaixuan (left) received the awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper on behalf of his team at FSE 2024.

NTU CCDS extends its congratulations to our faculty and postgraduates for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at the 32^nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is one of the two flagship conferences in the field of software engineering. It is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. FSE brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results and trends as well as their practical application in all areas of software engineering.

This year, the “Distinguished Paper Award” at FSE was awarded to just 11 out of 121 accepted papers, selected from a pool of 483 submissions by the review committee. Details of the award-winning paper are listed below. 

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We?  
Kaixuan Li, Yue Xue, Sen Chen, Han Liu, Kairan Sun, Ming Hu, Haijun Wang, Yang Liu, and Yixiang Chen. 
https://doi.org/10.1145/3660772

Team members (from left): Mr Li Kaixuan (Research assistant), Miss Sun Kairan (PhD, Year 2), and Prof Liu Yang.

• Mr Li Kaixuan is a research assistant at Continental Corp Lab, supervised by Prof Liu Yang. His research interest lies in software security and LLM.
  
  
• Miss Sun Kairan is a second-year PhD student, supervised by Prof Liu Yang. Her research interest lies in smart contract security, LLM assisted software security.