Fuchen Ma

Postdoctoral Researcher, supervised by Prof. Yu Jiang

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Email: fuchenma525@gmail.com

11-308, East-Main Building

School of Software, Tsinghua University

I received my Ph.D in Tsinghua University in 2024, advised by professor Jiaguang Sun and professor 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.

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. I achieved the China Computer Federation’s(CCF) First Prize for Technical Invention in 2024. 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.

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

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:
Sep 25, 2024 Our paper entitled ‘Themis: Finding Imbalance Failures in Distributed File Systems via a Load Variance Model’ got accepted by EuroSys 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. ESEC/FSE ’24
    When fuzzing meets llms: Challenges and opportunities
    Yu Jiang, Jie Liang, Fuchen Ma, and 8 more authors
    In Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 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
    Yuanliang Chen, Fuchen Ma, Yuanhang Zhou, and 3 more authors
    In 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Aug 2023
  6. 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