Zichen (Grayson) Xie
graysonxie@virginia.edu
I am a second-year CS Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia (UVA), advised by Prof. Wenxi Wang. I earned my bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University (ZJU), where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Lingming Zhang and Prof. Shouling Ji.
I am a member of the Advanced Honor Class for Engineering Education (ACEE) in Chu Kochen Honors College.
My research interests lie in Software Engineering, Software Security, and Machine Learning, with a focus on Verifiable Code Generation and Diffusion Models.
To date, my work has uncovered more than 150 previously unknown bugs in open-source projects, including Apache Druid and Netty, as well as 92 bugs in the Linux Kernel.
news
| Nov 03, 2026 | 🏆 The VeriContest leaderboard is live and open for submissions! |
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selected publications
- NeurIPS 2026
VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code GenerationarXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08553, 2026
internships
| Apr. 2025 - May 2025 | NetEase Games, ThunderFire, Software Engineer |
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| Jul. 2024 - Sept. 2024 | Tencent CDG, Wechat Ads, Software Engineer |