Hongxu Chen
Principal Software Engineer at Huawei
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolHongxu Chen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Shenzhen with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industrial engineering in software security and program analysis. He holds a PhD from Nanyang Technological University and has advanced static and dynamic analysis techniques—working on LLVM-based pointer and loop analysis and a static-analysis-enhanced grey-box fuzzing framework during his research roles. At Huawei he progressed from Senior Researcher to Principal Engineer, bringing rigorous research methods to production-scale security tooling. Pragmatic and minimalist in style (“Keep It Simple, Stupid!”), he favors elegant, maintainable solutions that make complex analyses operational. A background in mathematics and research internships at Microsoft Research Asia underpin his ability to translate formal techniques into practical engineering wins.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Nanyang Technological UniversityBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Stackoverflow
5,300reputation
268kreached
22answers
96questions
llvm
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
cpio10
dependency-analysis10
vim10
code-generation10
libarchive10
command-line-tool10
nvim10
cpp10
serve10
spoon10
pattern10
xmp10
api10
emitter10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ntu-sec/fot
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:122 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
hongxuchen/cpp_design_patterns
Sep 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:10 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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