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Xiangyu Zhang

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2004Rising activity

Publications

255

Citations

8,385

Est. group size

~12

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

22

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
AI-generated

This profile appears to combine work from multiple researchers sharing the same name, making it difficult to describe a single coherent research program. The publication record spans software security and testing (e.g., backdoor attacks on code and AI models, code generation, malware/jailbreak defenses), alongside unrelated topics like chemistry, pipeline safety, supply chain analytics, and speech processing. The clearest technical thread involves security and reliability of AI-driven software systems, including detecting backdoors in machine learning models and evaluating AI-generated code.

Software security and vulnerability detectionTrustworthy machine learning (backdoor attacks/defenses)AI-assisted code generation and evaluationLarge language model robustness and jailbreakingSoftware testing and program analysis

Publication output was relatively steady (roughly 9-13 papers/year) from 2017-2022, then increased notably in 2023-2025, suggesting growing recent activity, though this may partly reflect merged records from multiple authors with the same name.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 15.6/year recently
2017: 9 publications172018: 12 publications182019: 9 publications192020: 13 publications202021: 12 publications212022: 10 publications222023: 29 publications29232024: 22 publications242025: 17 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×31
  • Lecture notes in computer science×4
  • Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.×3
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering×3
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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