Fuchen Ma

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Email: fuchenma525@gmail.com

11-308, East-Main Building

School of Software, Tsinghua University

Background: I received my Ph.D in Tsinghua University in 2024, advised by Prof. Jiaguang Sun and Prof. Yu Jiang. I got my Bachelor’s degree in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2019. Currently, I’m a postdoctoral researcher (a shuimu scholar) in Tsinghua University. My research focuses on the fuzzing testing of blockchain systems, distributed systems, and protocol implementations.

Research Achievements: I’ve published 20+ papers in top-tier conferences and journals such as CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security, S&P, TSE, and TOSEM. I have detected 50+ vulnerabilities in renowned commercial blockchain systems such as FISCO BCOS, Diem, HyperLedger Fabric and Go-Ethereum, with 14 CVEs assigned by US National Vulnerabilities Database.

Awards: My doctoral dissertation was recognized as an Excellent Doctoral Dissertation by the China Institute of Electronics. I achieved the First Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award in 2024 (ranking 4/15). In the same year, I also achieved the China Computer Federation’s(CCF) First Prize for Technical Invention (ranking 3/6). In 2021, I was recognized as the MVP of the year by the FISCO BCOS community and selected as a Tencent Elite Talent. I also received the National Scholarship in 2023 and was named an Outstanding Graduate of Beijing in 2024.

Current Research: Currently, I’m working on two projects: 1) Explore the industry practise for fuzzing on blockchain systems. 2) Effective fuzzing on IoT devices’ protocols (such as protocols for the IP cameras). If you are interested in my research or have any questions, please feel free to contact with me.

news

Apr 08, 2025 Thrilled to share that I was awarded a grant by the Aptos Foundation. We will integrate our fuzzer into Aptos consensus protocol. :sparkles: :smile:
Mar 28, 2025 My doctoral dissertation was recognized as an Excellent Doctoral Dissertation by the China Institute of Electronics. :sparkles: :smile:
Feb 27, 2025 Our paper entitled ‘CMFuzz: Parallel Fuzzing of IoT Protocols by Configuration Model Identification and Scheduling’ got accepted by DAC 2025!!! :sparkles: :smile:
Feb 24, 2025 Our paper entitled ‘Chord: Towards a Unified Detection of Blockchain Transaction Parallelism Bugs’ got accepted by ICSE 2025!!! :sparkles: :smile:
Jan 24, 2025 Our paper entitled ‘Finding Metadata Inconsistencies in Distributed File Systems via Cross-Node Operation Modeling’ got accepted by USENIX Security 2025!!! :sparkles: :smile:

selected publications

  1. USENIX Security ’25
    Finding Metadata Inconsistencies in Distributed File Systems via Cross-Node Operation Modeling
    Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen, Yuanhang Zhou, and 3 more authors
    In 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 25), Aug 2025
  2. S&P ’24
    Chronos: Finding Timeout Bugs in Practical Distributed Systems by Deep-Priority Fuzzing with Transient Delay
    In 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Aug 2024
  3. NDSS ’23
    LOKI: State-Aware Fuzzing Framework for the Implementation of Blockchain Consensus Protocols.
    Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen, Meng Ren, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Aug 2023
  4. CCS ’23
    Phoenix: Detect and locate resilience issues in blockchain via context-sensitive chaos
    Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen, Yuanhang Zhou, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Aug 2023
  5. S&P ’23
    Tyr: Finding consensus failure bugs in blockchain system with behaviour divergent model
    In 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Aug 2023
  6. TOSEM ’23
    Pied-piper: Revealing the backdoor threats in ethereum erc token contracts
    Fuchen Ma, Meng Ren, Lerong Ouyang, and 7 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Aug 2023
  7. TOIT ’23
    V-Gas: Generating high gas consumption inputs to avoid out-of-gas vulnerability
    Fuchen Ma, Meng Ren, Fu Ying, and 5 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Aug 2023
  8. TSE ’21
    Pluto: Exposing vulnerabilities in inter-contract scenarios
    Fuchen Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Meng Ren, and 7 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Aug 2021
  9. ESEC/FSE ’21
    Making smart contract development more secure and easier
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Aug 2021
  10. IPM ’21
    Security reinforcement for Ethereum virtual machine
    Fuchen Ma, Meng Ren, Ying Fu, and 4 more authors
    Information Processing & Management, Aug 2021
  11. SANER ’19
    EVM*: From offline detection to online reinforcement for Ethereum virtual machine
    Fuchen Ma, Ying Fu, Meng Ren, and 5 more authors
    In 2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Aug 2019
  12. USENIX Security ’19
    EnFuzz: Ensemble Fuzzing with Seed Synchronization among Diverse Fuzzers
    Yuanliang Chen, Yu Jiang, Fuchen Ma, and 5 more authors
    In 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19), Aug 2019