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Sen Chen Professor Nankai University, China College of Cryptology and Cyber Science Office: Room 563, The Building of Computer Science, Jinnan Campus Email: senchen@nankai.edu.cn

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I am a full professor at Nankai University and lead NKSSecLab (Nankai Software Security Laboratory). I am also a member of the research group, led by Prof. Zheli Liu. My research focuses on software security, particularly in terms of software supply chain security. I received 6 Distinguished Paper Awards and the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award.

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  December 2025: Received the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award in 2026 for outstanding contributions to advancing software supply chain security through pioneering techniques and tools in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST).

  July 2025, one paper accepted by CCS 2025.

  Invited as PC of USENIX Security 2025-2026, IEEE S&P 2025, CCS 2024-2025, ISSTA 2024-2025, OOPSLA 2024-2025.

  June 2024: Won the Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2024.

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(CCS 2025) ForeDroid: Scenario-Aware Analysis for Android Malware Detection and Explanation

(TOSEM 2025) Beyond Decision: Android Malware Description Generation through Profiling Malicious Behavior Trajectory

(FSE 2024) Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We?

(ASE 2023) EndWatch: A Practical Method for Detecting Non-Termination in Real-World Software

(ICSE 2023) Compatible Remediation on Vulnerabilities from Third-Party Libraries for Java Projects

(ICSE 2022) Demystifying the Vulnerability Propagation and Its Evolution via Dependency Trees in the NPM Ecosystem

(TOSEM 2022) Why an Android App is Classified as Malware? Towards Malware Classification Interpretation

(TIFS 2022) A Performance-Sensitive Malware Detection System Using Deep Learning on Mobile Devices

(TDSC 2021) GUI-Squatting Attack: Automated Generation of Android Phishing Apps

(ICSE 2020) An Empirical Assessment of Security Risks of Global Android Banking Apps

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