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Jianzhong Liu
Tenure-track Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University
I am a tenure-track Associate Professor at Shandong University. My research focuses on operating system security, system software testing, kernel fuzzing, embedded system security, and software analysis. My work improves the efficiency, adaptability, and effectiveness of kernel fuzz testing and has discovered many real-world system bugs across Linux, embedded operating systems, Android devices, and file systems.
Kernel fuzz testing
Improving the effectiveness and performance of fuzz testing for operating system kernels through better feedback, execution mechanisms, and state exploration.
Kernel fuzzingCoverage feedbackBug finding
Embedded and mobile system security
Testing embedded operating systems, Android firmware drivers, and hardware-related system components across diverse platforms and architectures.
Embedded systemsAndroid driversFreeRTOSOpenHarmony
File system and system consistency testing
Discovering crash-consistency and correctness bugs by systematically exploring persistent file-system states and system behavior.
File systemsCrash consistencyState exploration
Software analysis and security assurance
Building practical testing and analysis techniques for system software, cloud-native infrastructure, and safety-critical software stacks.
Software testingProgram analysisSecurity assurance
Recent publications
Conference paper · 2025
DroidFuzz: Proprietary Driver Fuzzing for Embedded Android Devices
Jianzhong Liu, Yuheng Shen, Yifei Chu, Qiang Zhang, Heyuan Shi, Wanli Chang, Yu Jiang
Proceedings of the 62nd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
PublisherJournal article · 2025
SnapCC: Effective File System Consistency Testing Using Systematic State Exploration
Jianzhong Liu, Yuheng Shen, Yiru Xu, Hao Sun, Yu Jiang
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
PublisherConference paper · 2024
Leveraging Binary Coverage for Effective Generation Guidance in Kernel Fuzzing
Jianzhong Liu, Yuheng Shen, Yiru Xu, Yu Jiang
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
PublisherUpdates
2025-07-11
Joined Shandong University as a tenure-track Associate Professor
I am building a research group in operating system security, system software testing, and software analysis.
2026-07-01
Graduate student recruitment open
Motivated students interested in systems, security, and software testing are encouraged to get in touch.
Featured funding & research projects
Principal Investigator · 2026.07–2029.06
Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund (Category C)
Research on multi-stage collaborative optimization methods for kernel fuzzing of autonomous and controllable server operating systems. Funding: 130,000 RMB.
Technical Lead · 2025-2026
Huawei Technology Collaboration Project
Collaborative research on system software security with Huawei.