Dr. Daoyuan Wu is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has been working on mobile and software security for ten years, blockchain and fintech security for four years, and LLM for Security and AI Security for 1.5 years. He has led the R&D of three representative tools: BackDroid, a groundbreaking search-based static analysis tool for Android; BlockScope, a code similarity-based tool for discovering numerous blockchain vulnerabilities; and GPTScan, the first LLM-based vulnerability analysis tool for smart contracts. With these tools, he has published papers in top-tier venues (e.g., NDSS, EuroS&P, DSN, USENIX ATC, FSE, ICSE, ISSTA), hacker conferences (Blackhat Europe and HitCon), and has reported around 100 CVEs, earning numerous bug bounty awards from Google, Facebook, Apple, Binance, Dogecoin, and Optimism/Base/Mantle.
