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I am now working as a Research Fellow in College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, under the supervision of Prof. Yang Liu . I obtained my Ph.D degree from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University under the supervision of Prof. Zibin Zheng (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Yuhong Nan in 2025. I am an active authors in terms of publishing at leading software engineering and embodied agent tasks.

My research interests broadly fall within the areas of Embodied Agent and Software Security . My research generally involves building pratical agent softwares and tools to enable robot software and detect/address various security threats.

Publications

• [ASE'26] Zhixiang Chen, Zhuangbin Chen, Ruoxi Jia, Zeqin Liao, Wei Li, Jinyang Liu, and Zibin Zheng. "IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation." In the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'26). [Top].
• [ECCV'26] Lianyu Hu, Shengqian Qin, Zeqin Liao, Qing Guo, Liang Wan, Wei Feng and Yang Liu. "CoLT: Teaching Multi-Modal Models to Think with Chain of Latent Thoughts." In the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'26). [Top].
• [ICML'26] Lianyu Hu, Xiaoyu Ma, Zeqin Liao(Corresponding author), and Yang Liu. "TVI-CoT: Text-Visual Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Understanding." In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'26). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [TSE'25] Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Jiajing Wu, and Zibin Zheng. "Satellite: Detecting and Analyzing Smart Contract Vulnerabilities caused by Subcontract Misuse." In IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE'25). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [TSE'25] Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Peifan Ren, and Zibin Zheng. "Augmenting smart contract decompiler output through fine-grained dependency analysis and llm-facilitated semantic recovery." In IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE'25). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [TOSEM'25] Sicheng Hao, Yuhong Nan, Zeqin Liao, and Zibin Zheng. "Detecting and Analyzing Fine-grained Third-party Library Dependencies in Solidity Smart Contracts." In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM'25). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [ASE'25] Zhengyang Zhu, Hongning Dai, Hanyang Guo, Zeqin Liao, and Zibin Zheng. "VRExplorer: A Model-based Approach for Semi-Automated Testing of Virtual Reality Scenes." In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'25). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [FSE'24] Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Henglong Liang, Sicheng Hao, Juan Zhai, Jiajing Wu, and Zibin Zheng. "SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis." In proceedings of ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'24). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [ISSTA'23] Zeqin Liao, Sicheng Hao, Yuhong Nan, and Zibin Zheng. "SmartState : Detecting State-reverting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts via Fine-grained State-dependency Analysis." In proceedings of the 32th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'23). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [ISSTA'22] Zeqin Liao, Zibin Zheng, Xiao Chen and Yuhong Nan. "SmartDagger: A Bytecode-based Static Analysis Approach for Detecting Cross-contract Vulnerability." In proceedings of the 31th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'22). [Top] [CCF-A].
• [IoTJ'21] Guangjie Han, Zeqin Liao, Miguel Martínez-García, Yu Zhang, and Yan Peng. "Dynamic Collaborative Charging Algorithm for Mobile and Static Nodes in Industrial Internet of Things." In journals of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ'21). [中科院一区][IF=10.6].
• [IoTJ'20] Zeqin Liao, Guangjie Han, Hao Wang, and Li Liu. "Multistation-Based Collaborative Charging Strategy for High-Density Low-Power Sensing Nodes in Industrial Internet of Things." In journals of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ'20). [中科院一区][IF=10.6].

Patents

• [1] Zeqin Liao, Guogao Liu. "A Parcel Sorting Device for Rigid Packaging Boxes." CN107470160A. [Invention Patent] [Granted].
• [2] Guogao Liu, Zeqin Liao。 "A Maintenance Device for Transmission Pipelines." CN107606382A. [Invention Patent] [Granted].
• [3] Guangjie Han, Zeqin Liao, Li Liu, Guogao Liu. "A Multistation-Based Charging Method Based on SOM Neural Networks in WRSNs." CN110034596A. [Invention Patent] [Granted].
• [4] Guangjie Han, Jiawei Wu, Jinfang Jiang, Zeqin Liao. "A Cluster-Based Collaborative Charging Method in WSNs." CN109495945A. [Invention Patent] [Granted].
• [5] Zibin Zheng, Henglong Liang, Yuhong Nan, Zeqin Liao, Sicheng Hao, Jiajing Wu. "A Fine-Grained Static Analysis Framework for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Cross-Chain Bridge Smart Contracts." CN118468282B. [Invention Patent] [Granted].
• [6] Zibin Zheng, Henglong Liang, Zeqin Liao. "A Graph-Data-Based Tool for Detecting Anomalous Transac- tions in Cross-Chain Bridges." [Invention Patent] [Acceptance].
• [7] Zibin Zheng, Zixu Gao, Zeqin Liao, Yuhong Nan, Henglong Liang and Sicheng Hao. "A Transfer Learning- based Technique for Detecting Subcontract Miuse Vulnerabilities in Smart Contract." [Invention Patent] [Acceptance].
• [8] Zibin Zheng, Peifan Reng, Zeqin Liao, Zixu Gao, Henglong Liang and Sicheng Hao. "The Method and System for Optimizing Smart Contract Decompiler Outputs based on Dependency Analysis and Large Language Models." [Invention Patent] [Acceptance].