Our paper NL2Repo-Bench was accepted to ICML 2026, studying long-horizon repository generation for coding agents.
About
My name is Ziffer Zifan Peng (彭子帆). I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Financial Technology at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). I obtained my Bachelor degree from Zhejiang University in 2021 and my Master degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2022.
I am co-supervised by Prof. Xinlei He, Prof. Xuechao Wang, and Dr. Yingjie Xue. My current research interests lie in Trustworthy AI, Human-Centered AI, and DeFi & Blockchain. Recently, I have also been exploring safety and privacy for embodied AI.
News
Our paper JALMBench was accepted to ICLR 2026, focusing on jailbreak vulnerabilities in audio language models.
Two papers, CHASM and SuperGPQA, were accepted to NeurIPS 2025, covering covert ads detection and large-scale LLM evaluation.
Our paper Unsafe LLM-Based Search was accepted to USENIX Security 2025, analyzing safety risks in AI-powered web search.
Our paper Cross-Chain Options was accepted to ICWS 2025 as a regular full paper on bridgeless DeFi primitives.
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I passed the PQE oral exam and formally became a Ph.D. Candidate.
I joined HKUST(GZ) as a Ph.D. student in Financial Technology.
I received the Ph.D. offer from HKUST(GZ).
Experience
Education
Ph.D. in Financial Technology
HKUST (GZ), Guangzhou, China
MSc in Information Technology
HKUST, Hong Kong SAR
BEng in Software Engineering
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Work
Software Engineer
Shopee, Singapore
Research Assistant
HSU, Hong Kong SAR
Research Assistant
HKUST, Hong Kong SAR
Java Software Engineer Intern
AMap · Alibaba Group, Beijing, China
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, FTEC 5050 - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Course, HKUST(GZ), 2025 Fall
Teaching Assistant, UCMP 6050 - Project-driven Collaborative Design Thinking, Graduate Course, HKUST(GZ), 2025 Spring
Teaching Assistant, FTEC 5310 - Blockchain Technology, Graduate Course, HKUST(GZ), 2024 Fall
Service
Reviewer or AC
ACL
ICWSM
Security AE
ICDCS
MM
TDSC
WWW
ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems
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