Sen Chen
Professor, College of Cryptology and Cyber Science, Nankai University, China
About
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.
I was a postdoc and research assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working with Prof. Yang Liu.
My research focuses on software security, with an emphasis on software supply chain security. I have received the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award and 6 Distinguished Paper Awards.
Research
- Software supply chain security (SCA, SAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- Static Analysis and Security Testing (SAST)
- Vulnerablity, Malware, and PoC
- LLM, AI Agents
News
Dec 2025: Received the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award (2026) for contributions to software supply chain security through techniques and tools in SCA and SAST.
Jul 2025: One paper accepted by CCS 2025.
2024–2026: Program committee for USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, CCS, ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, OOPSLA.
Jun 2024: Won the Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2024.
Selected Publications
- CCS 2025 ForeDroid: Scenario-Aware Analysis for Android Malware Detection and Explanation
- TOSEM 2025 Beyond Decision: 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 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