VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Botang Xiao
dblp:409/0670
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-1446-2329ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
2 papers |
Program analysis · 40% Software testing · 40% Runtime systems and virtual machines · 20% | |
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Systems and software security · 100% |
Topics — the 8 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security › memory safety
memory error detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BSan: A Powerful Identifier-Based Hardware-Independent Memory Error Detector for COTS Binaries · ICSE 2025 |
Systems and software security
memory safety |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BSan: A Powerful Identifier-Based Hardware-Independent Memory Error Detector for COTS Binaries · ICSE 2025 |
Program analysis › dynamic analysis › instrumentation
binary instrumentation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BSan: A Powerful Identifier-Based Hardware-Independent Memory Error Detector for COTS Binaries · ICSE 2025 |
Software testing
differential testing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | WASIT: Deep and Continuous Differential Testing of WebAssembly System Interface Implementations · SOSP 2025 |
Program analysis
dynamic analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BSan: A Powerful Identifier-Based Hardware-Independent Memory Error Detector for COTS Binaries · ICSE 2025 |
Software testing
specification-based testing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | WASIT: Deep and Continuous Differential Testing of WebAssembly System Interface Implementations · SOSP 2025 |
Runtime systems and virtual machines › language runtime
webassembly runtime |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | WASIT: Deep and Continuous Differential Testing of WebAssembly System Interface Implementations · SOSP 2025 |
Systems and software security
vulnerability discovery |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | WASIT: Deep and Continuous Differential Testing of WebAssembly System Interface Implementations · SOSP 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
static analysis · 1.7resource abstraction and tracking · 1.7identifier-based detection · 1.7dynamic instrumentation · 1.7domain-specific language · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | BSan: A Powerful Identifier-Based Hardware-Independent Memory Error Detector for COTS BinariesabstractThis paper presents BSan, a practical softwareonly memory error detector for binary code. Different from state-of-the-art binary-level detectors, which rely on either the shadow-memory-based approach or the hardware-specific feature and thus suffer from several fundamental limitations, BSan adopts an identifier-based approach, enabling it to detect deep memory errors missed by existing detectors. Also, BSan does not depend on any specific hardware features. To reduce the high performance overhead caused by identifier propagation, BSan creates a novel hybrid approach, static analysis+dynamic instrumentation, to improve the performance without inheriting the poor reliability of static binary rewriting, distinguishing it from existing detectors that simply refer to static binary rewriting for better performance. The comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that BSan can detect more memory errors than state-of-the-art binary-level detectors. Meanwhile, the performance and memory overheads of BSan are comparable to those of existing detectors. Botang Xiao, Qingchen Kong, Le Guan, Wenwen Wang 0001 |
ICSE | 2 |
| 2025 | WASIT: Deep and Continuous Differential Testing of WebAssembly System Interface ImplementationsabstractThis paper presents WASIT, a powerful specification-driven differential testing framework for WebAssembly (Wasm) system interface (WASI) implementations. WASIT invents several innovative techniques to address the challenges facing state-of-the-art testing approaches when applied to WASI implementations. Specifically, it introduces real-time resource abstraction and tracking to facilitate the generation of meaningful and dependent WASI function calls. It also creates a domain-specific language to automatically filter out uninteresting WASI function argument values by augmenting the WASI specification. Finally, it adopts a decoupled system architecture to achieve smooth co-evolution with WASI. Our evaluation shows that WASIT successfully found 48 new WASI-specific bugs in six popular Wasm runtimes, with 41 confirmed, 37 fixed, and three CVEs assigned. Yage Hu, Botang Xiao, Qingchen Kong, Boyang Yi, Suxin Ji, Songlan Wang, Wenwen Wang 0001 |
SOSP | 3 |