Minghao Hu

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University. My research focuses on NLP applications in software engineering. I am advised by Prof. Lannan Luo. Previously, I obtained my Master’s degree (advised by Prof. Shaofu Yang) and Bachelor’s degree both from Southeast University.

My resume can be accessed here.

Publications

• Zero-Shot Vulnerability Detection in Low-Resource Smart Contracts Through Solidity-Only Training [PDF]

The 56th Annual IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2026)

Minghao Hu, Qiang Zeng, Lannan Luo

• FlowMalTrans: Unsupervised Binary Code Translation for Malware Detection Using Flow-Adapter Architecture [PDF] [CODE]

2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)

Minghao Hu, Junzhe Wang, Weisen Zhao, Qiang Zeng, Lannan Luo

Work Experience

June 2026 - August 2026, Thoughtworks, AI Research Intern

Conduct research in LLM decoding and sampling. Implement a gating approach and base-expert co-decoding paradigm for secure code generation.

Teaching Experience

Fall 2025, ISA 562, Information Security System and Theory, Teaching Assistant

Spring 2026 CS 262, Introduction to Low-level Programming, Teaching Assistant

Fall 2026, ISA 562, Information Security System and Theory, Teaching Assistant

Service

Reviewer:

AAAI: 2025, 2026, 2027

ICML: 2026

NIPS: 2026

Local Organization Team: ISC 2024