Blockchain Security · Data Mining

Zhiying
Wu

Research interests: blockchain security, smart contracts, local community detection, and large language models.

Email: wuzhy95@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

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Education

Sep 2021 – Jun 2026

Sun Yat-sen University

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology

Advisor: Prof. Jiajing Wu.

Research: blockchain security, smart contracts, local community detection, and large language models.

Aug 2017 – May 2021

Wuhan University of Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Technology

Recommended for postgraduate admission in 2021.

GPA: 4.16 / 5.0; ranked in the top 6.91%.

Selected publications

First-author and corresponding-author papers are listed first. * Corresponding author.

  1. 2025

    First author

    Hunting in the Dark Forest: A Pre-trained Model for On-chain Attack Transaction Detection in Web3

    Zhiying Wu, J. Wu, H. Zhang, Z. Zheng, W. Wang

    Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), 4519–4530

  2. 2024

    First author

    DAppFL: Just-in-Time Fault Localization for Decentralized Applications in Web3

    Zhiying Wu, J. Wu, H. Zhang, Z. Li, J. Chen, Z. Zheng, et al.

    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)

  3. 2023

    First author

    Know Your Transactions: Real-time and Generic Transaction Semantic Representation on Blockchain & Web3 Ecosystem

    Zhiying Wu, J. Liu, J. Wu, Z. Zheng, X. Luo, T. Chen

    Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), 1918–1927

  4. 2023

    First author

    TRacer: Scalable Graph-based Transaction Tracing for Account-based Blockchain Trading Systems

    Zhiying Wu, J. Liu, J. Wu, Z. Zheng, T. Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 18, 2609–2621

  5. 2025

    Corresponding author

    CCIHunter: Enhancing Smart Contract Code-Comment Inconsistencies Detection via Two-Stage Pre-training

    Ziwei Li, Jiajing Wu*, Zhiying Wu*, et al.

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

  6. 2025

    Malo in the Code Jungle: Explainable Fault Localization for Decentralized Applications

    Hui Zhang, Jiajing Wu*, Zhiying Wu, et al.

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

  7. 2024

    Fishing for Fraudsters: Uncovering Ethereum Phishing Gangs with Blockchain Data

    J. Liu, J. Chen, J. Wu, Z. Wu, J. Fang, Z. Zheng

    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19, 3038–3050

  8. 2025

    Safeguarding Blockchain Ecosystem: Understanding and Detecting Attack Transactions on Cross-chain Bridges

    J. Wu, K. Lin, D. Lin, B. Zhang, Z. Wu, J. Su

    Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), 4902–4912

  9. 2024

    2DynEthNet: A Two-Dimensional Streaming Framework for Ethereum Phishing Scam Detection

    J. Yang, W. Yu, J. Wu, D. Lin, Z. Wu, Z. Zheng

    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

  10. 2025

    SolPhishHunter: Toward Detecting and Understanding Phishing on Solana

    Ziwei Li, Zigui Jiang, Ming Fang, Jiaxin Chen, Zhiying Wu, et al.

    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

  11. 2024

    Bubble or Not: An Analysis of Ethereum ERC721 and ERC1155 Non-fungible Token Ecosystem

    Yixiang Tan, Zhiying Wu, Jieli Liu, Jiajing Wu*, et al.

    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

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Research internships

Dec 2023 – Jun 2024

Ant Group · Security Department

Research Intern

Contributed to the development of anti-money-laundering algorithms for Web3.

May 2022 – Dec 2022

Merchants Union Consumer Finance Company Limited

Algorithm Intern

Contributed to models for detecting borrowers at risk of overdue payments.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

PeckShield · Anti-Money-Laundering Department

Intern

Contributed to the development of cryptocurrency fund-tracing algorithms.

Competitions

Dec 2023

Grand Prize · First Place Nationwide

Finals of the 2nd CCF & ATEC University Blockchain Security, Privacy Technology and Innovative Application Competition.

Feb 2023

Second Prize

Finals of the 1st CCF & ATEC University Blockchain Security, Privacy Technology and Innovative Application Competition.

Jun 2020

Second Prize · Information Visualization Design

13th Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition (中国大学生计算机设计大赛).

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