Xianmao Ji (冀贤懋)
I am a Ph.D. student in Cyberspace Security at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), advised by Prof. Cai Fu, starting in September 2025. I earned my bachelor’s degree from North University of China in June 2025 as an Outstanding Graduate. My research focuses on software and code security, vulnerability discovery, and the application of AI to security.
Research Interests
- LLM‑assisted fuzzing
- Vulnerability detection and code security
- Firmware vulnerability discovery
- Secure software engineering
Publications
To be updated.
Competition Awards
2025
- In July, I participated in AdventureX (China’s largest hackathon) in Hangzhou and developed an AI‑powered daily academic paper recommendation system: ArXivBuddy
- National College Software Innovation Contest (Software System Security, North China, Attack & Defense) — Second Prize
2024
- University Student Energy Economics Academic Creativity Contest — National First Prize
- The 14th “Challenge Cup” Student Entrepreneurship Competition — Provincial Gold Award
- College Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training Program — Provincial Completion
- China International College Students Innovation Competition — Provincial Silver Award × 2
2023
- College Student Information Technology Certification Challenge — National First Prize
- China Institute of Electronics Algorithm Competition — National First Prize
- College Student Olympiad Mathematics — National Silver Award
- Digital Economy Innovation Competition — National Third Prize
- Electrical & Electronic Engineering Innovation Competition — National Third Prize
- The 9th “Internet+” Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition — Provincial Gold Award
- The 9th “Internet+” Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition — Provincial Bronze Award
- Lanqiao Cup — Provincial Third Prize
- China College Students Computer Design Competition (Shanxi) — Excellence Award
2022
- College Student Computer Ability Challenge — Provincial First Prize
Honors
- President’s Medal, North University of China (top university honor; ~10 recipients annually)
- Special Scholarship in Comprehensive Quality Evaluation (rank: 1/4500)
- National Scholarship
- National Encouragement Scholarship
- Featured by People’s Daily App for competition performance
- Outstanding Volunteer of Shanxi Province
- Merit Student × 2
- Excellent Communist Youth League Officer
- Outstanding Student Cadre
Experience
- Security Service Engineer, NSFOCUS Technologies, Beijing, Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
- Backend Development Engineer, Haoxin Guangyuan Electronic Information Technology Co., Ltd., Jun 2022 – Sep 2022
- Co‑founded and led the “Shanxi JinYuxing Public Welfare Service Team” with Peiyu Li since 2021; team size 2k+ members
- Invited speaker, “Youth Stories Sharing Session”, Mar 30, 2025
- Invited speaker, “Power of Role Models”, Mar 27, 2024
Contact
- Email: d202580973@hust.edu.cn