Yuxin Hu

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, advised by Prof. Kevin Leach, starting from Fall 2023. My research interests lie in AI for decompilation and trusted execution environments (TEEs).

Interests

// ai × decompilation

Decompilation you can execute

Using LLMs and agents to recover source code from binaries that can be recompiled and re-executed.

// tee

Secrets attackers can't reach

Extending Arm TEEs to protect applications from privileged attackers.

One recovers what a program really does. The other makes sure nobody else can find out.

Education

2023 – now Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. student
2020 – 2023 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
Master's degree
2016 – 2020 Nanchang University
Bachelor's degree

Publications

EMNLP '26
Context-Guided Decompilation: A Step Towards Re-executability X. Wang, Y. Hu, K. Leach Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026
TDSC '25
Complementing Confidential Computing Environment for Applications on Arm CCA Y. Zhang, Y. Hu, Z. Ning, F. Zhang, X. Luo, H. Huang, S. Yan, Z. He IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025
USENIX Sec '23
SHELTER: Extending Arm CCA with Isolation in User Space Y. Zhang*, Y. Hu*, Z. Ning, F. Zhang, X. Luo, H. Huang, S. Yan, Z. He USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2023
ISSTA '23
Alligator in Vest: A Practical Failure-Diagnosis Framework via Arm Hardware Features Y. Zhang, Y. Hu, H. Li, W. Shi, Z. Ning, X. Luo ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2023