ZHOU Yajin

*SHB = Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Research Interest
  • Blockchain System and Security
  • Cryptocurrency Crime Investigation
  • Anti-money Laundering of Cryptocurrency
  • Security Infrastructure for AI Systems
  • AI for System Security
Courses Taught

ZHOU Yajin 周亞金教授

Associate Professor
PhD (NC State University)
+852 3943-8346
Room 714, SHB*
yjzhou [at] ie.cuhk.edu.hk

I am an associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). From 2018 to 2026, I was a ZJU-100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2015 and subsequently served as a Senior Security Researcher at Qihoo 360.

I have published 70+ papers with 10,000+ citations (see Google Scholar). One of my papers was included in the normalized list of Top‑100 Security Papers since 1981, and I received the Most Influential Scholar Award for contributions to Security and Privacy. I served as PC members/reviewers for IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, and ACM CCS.

Recent / Selected Publications
  • Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, Thought is All You Need: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Thought-Augmented Large Language Model, FSE 2026
  • Yicheng Huo, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou, Ting Yu, Lei Wu, Cong Wang, Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible Blockchains, ACM SIGMETRICS 2026
  • Haoran Lin, Hang Feng, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, ParallelEVM: Operation‑Level Concurrent Transaction Execution for EVM‑Compatible Blockchains, EuroSys 2025
  • Chaoyuan Peng, Muhui Jiang, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Toss a Fault to BpfChecker: Revealing Implementation Flaws for eBPF runtimes with Differential Fuzzing, ACM CCS 2024
  • Hang Feng, Yufeng Hu, Yinghan Kou, Runhuai Li, Jianfeng Zhu, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, SlimArchive: A Lightweight Architecture for Ethereum Archive Nodes, USENIX ATC 2024
  • Siwei Wu, Zhou Yu, Dabao Wang, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, Haoyu Wang, Xingliang Yuan, DeFiRanger: Detecting DeFi Price Manipulation Attacks, IEEE TDSC
  • Huamao Wu, Yuan Chen, Yajin Zhou, Yifei Wang, Lubo Zhang, DriverJar: Lightweight Device Driver Isolation for ARM, DAC 2023
Research Interest

  • Blockchain System and Security
  • Cryptocurrency Crime Investigation
  • Anti-money Laundering of Cryptocurrency
  • Security Infrastructure for AI Systems
  • AI for System Security
Courses Taught