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Zhendong Su

Zhendong Su

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
17397
World Ranking
2326
National Ranking
54

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Zhendong Su is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in computer science with a significant focus on software and information systems. Their research encompasses various subfields including software engineering, signal processing, artificial intelligence, and computer networks and communications.

The primary topics addressed in their work relate to software testing and debugging techniques, software engineering research, advanced malware detection techniques, and software reliability and analysis. Additional areas include parallel computing and optimization techniques, advanced database systems and queries, and software system performance and reliability.

Notable recent publications by Zhendong Su include:

  • Finding bugs in database systems via query partitioning, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Fully automated functional fuzzing of Android apps for detecting non-crashing logic bugs, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Why My App Crashes? Understanding and Benchmarking Framework-Specific Exceptions of Android Apps, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • On the unusual effectiveness of type-aware operator mutations for testing SMT solvers, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Testing Database Engines via Pivoted Query Synthesis, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Manuel Rigger, Ting Su, Geguang Pu, Chengyu Zhang, and Shengcheng Yu.

Zhendong Su has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with a high number of papers in the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages and arXiv (Cornell University). Other frequent venues include Zenodo, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

Best Publications

  • DECKARD: Scalable and Accurate Tree-Based Detection of Code Clones

    Lingxiao Jiang;Ghassan Misherghi;Zhendong Su;Stephane Glondu

  • On the naturalness of software

    Abram Hindle;Earl T. Barr;Mark Gabel;Zhendong Su

  • The essence of command injection attacks in web applications

    Zhendong Su;Gary Wassermann

  • On the naturalness of software

    Abram Hindle;Earl T. Barr;Zhendong Su;Mark Gabel

  • FIREMAN: a toolkit for firewall modeling and analysis

    Lihua Yuan;Hao Chen;Jianning Mai;Chen-Nee Chuah

  • Sound and precise analysis of web applications for injection vulnerabilities

    Gary Wassermann;Zhendong Su

  • Static detection of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

    Gary Wassermann;Zhendong Su

  • Scalable detection of semantic clones

    Mark Gabel;Lingxiao Jiang;Zhendong Su

  • Compiler validation via equivalence modulo inputs

    Vu Le;Mehrdad Afshari;Zhendong Su

  • Guided, stochastic model-based GUI testing of Android apps

    Ting Su;Guozhu Meng;Yuting Chen;Ke Wu

  • On the localness of software

    Zhaopeng Tu;Zhendong Su;Premkumar Devanbu

  • HDD: hierarchical delta debugging

    Ghassan Misherghi;Zhendong Su

  • Partial online cycle elimination in inclusion constraint graphs

    Manuel Fähndrich;Jeffrey S. Foster;Zhendong Su;Alexander Aiken

  • Context-based detection of clone-related bugs

    Lingxiao Jiang;Zhendong Su;Edwin Chiu

  • Static checking of dynamically generated queries in database applications

    Carl Gould;Zhendong Su;Premkumar Devanbu

  • On deriving unknown vulnerabilities from zero-day polymorphic and metamorphic worm exploits

    Jedidiah R. Crandall;Zhendong Su;S. Felix Wu;Frederic T. Chong

  • Detecting code clones in binary executables

    Andreas Sæbjørnsen;Jeremiah Willcock;Thomas Panas;Daniel Quinlan

  • Dynamic test input generation for web applications

    Gary Wassermann;Dachuan Yu;Ajay Chander;Dinakar Dhurjati

  • Javert: fully automatic mining of general temporal properties from dynamic traces

    Mark Gabel;Zhendong Su

  • Automatic mining of functionally equivalent code fragments via random testing

    Lingxiao Jiang;Zhendong Su

Frequent Co-Authors

Lingxiao Jiang
Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University
Premkumar Devanbu
Premkumar Devanbu University of California, Davis
Manuel Fähndrich
Manuel Fähndrich Google (United States)
Alex Aiken
Alex Aiken Stanford University
Hao Chen
Hao Chen University of California, Davis
Rishabh Singh
Rishabh Singh Google (United States)
Frederic T. Chong
Frederic T. Chong University of Chicago
Guoqing Xu
Guoqing Xu University of California, Los Angeles
Sumit Gulwani
Sumit Gulwani Microsoft (United States)
Doron Peled
Doron Peled Bar-Ilan University

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