Qingyuan Zhong

I am Qingyuan Zhong, a graduate of the School of Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University. During my master’s studies, I was advised by Associate Professor Jiachi Chen and Associate Professor Yanlin Wang. My research interests include Large Language Model (LLM) Safety, Software Engineering, and Vocal Music.

Education

• Sun Yat-sen University, 2023–2026, M.Eng. in Software Engineering
• Donghua University, 2019–2023, B.Eng. in Software Engineering

Internship / Work Experience

• 2026–present: China Southern Power Grid Power Dispatching Control Center
• 2024–2025: Tencent TEG, Research Intern in LLM Safety Algorithms, 2024 Rhino-Bird Research Program for Fundamental Platform Technologies

Research Projects

• 2025: SafetyBench, a benchmark for evaluating the safety of large language models — Contributor
• 2024–2025: Defense Against Malicious Content and Positive Guidance for Large Language Models, Tencent Rhino-Bird Fund Project
• 2024–2025: Development of a Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Security, Tencent Rhino-Bird Fund Project
• 2023–2024: Detecting Frontend–Backend Inconsistencies in DApps Using NLP and Program Analysis, Ant Group Research Project
• 2022–2023: PaperDevelop — A Version-Control-Based, One-Stop Platform for Academic Writing Development, National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program
• 2022–2023: Design and Implementation of a Deep-Learning-Based Basketball Action Counting System, nominated for Outstanding Graduation Project
• 2021–2022: Design of a Photometric-Stereo-Based Micro-Defect Detection System, National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

Publications

• RMCBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models’ Resistance to Malicious Code

  Jiachi Chen, Qingyuan Zhong, Yanlin Wang, Kaiwen Ning, Yongkun Liu, Zenan Xu, Zhe Zhao, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng

  The 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024, CCF A)

• Hyperion: Unveiling DApp Inconsistencies using LLM and Dataflow-Guided Symbolic Execution

  Shuo Yang, Xingwei Lin, Jiachi Chen, Qingyuan Zhong, Lei Xiao, Renke Huang, Yanlin Wang, Zibin Zheng

  The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025, CCF A)

• MCGMark: An Encodable and Robust Online Watermark for LLM-Generated Malicious Code

  Kaiwen Ning, Jiachi Chen, Qingyuan Zhong, Tao Zhang, Yanlin Wang, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Weizhe Zhang, Zibin Zheng

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2025, CCF A)

• Towards an Understanding of Large Language Models in Software Engineering Tasks

  Zibin Zheng, Kaiwen Ning, Qingyuan Zhong, Jiachi Chen, Wenqing Chen, Lianghong Guo, Weicheng Wang, Yanlin Wang

  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 2024, CCF B)

• SafeGuide: From Refusal to Positive Guidance A Large-Scale Bilingual Dataset for LLM Safety Alignment

  Qingyuan Zhong, Zhan Yu, Jing Zhao, Hao Li, Zhe Zhao, Yanlin Wang, Zhenxiang Yan, Jiachi Chen

  Tencent KM Community — No. 2 most popular post of all time sitewide 🔥

• Patching the Short Board: Improving LLM Reliability via Tail-Aware Distributional Reinforcement Learning

  Coming soon…

• Characterizing Real-World Defects in Multi-Agent Systems via LLM-Driven Issue Analysis

  Yifan Cheng, Yihua Chen, Qingyuan Zhong, Jiashuo Zhang, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Jiachi Chen

  Coming soon…

Academic Service

• 2025–present: Reviewer, Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE)

Awards and Honors

• 2026: Outstanding Graduate, Sun Yat-sen University
• 2025: Meituan Beidou Talent Program (Foundation Algorithms for Large Models)
• 2024, 2025: Recommended nominee for the National Scholarship for Graduate Students
• 2024, 2025: First-Class Graduate Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University
• 2025: One-Star Volunteer, Sun Yat-sen University (100+ service hours)
• 2024: National Champion, Baidu Commercial AI Technology Innovation Competition — Industry Agent Development
• 2024: Third Prize, DataCon Big Data Security Analysis Competition
• 2024: Top 5, ETH Hangzhou Hackathon
• 2024: CMB Consumer Finance Scholarship
• 2023: Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai
• 2023: First-Class Scholarship, Donghua University
• 2022: First Prize, 15th Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition (national top 0.4%)
• 2022: First Prize, 14th Shanghai College Student Computer Application Competition (advanced as the top-ranked entry)
• 2021: First Prize (Shanghai Division), China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling

Music Experience (amateur; documenting the journey)

• 2025: Singer, Tencent Music Association
• 2023–2026: Tenor, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus) Choir
• 2023–2026: Singer, AM Music Charity Club, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus)
• 2020–2021: Lead vocalist, Pending Disbandment Band

Music Honors

• 2025: Top 10 Singer, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), 5th place
• 2023: Excellence Award, Sun Yat-sen University Campus Singer Competition Finals
• 2023: Top 10 Singer, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), 4th place
• 2021: Top 10 Most Popular Singer, Donghua University “Voice Beneath the Light Years” Campus Singer Competition
• 2018, 2019: Top 10 Singer, Chuxiong Dongxing High School
• 2015: First Prize, Campus Culture and Arts Festival Singing Competition, Chuxiong Jinlu Middle School

Performance Experience

• 2025: Tencent 27th Anniversary “Shine On” Concert, Tencent Binhai Towers, Shenzhen — Light Wrapped Around the Heart, The First Morning
• 2025: Tencent “Keep Shining After Sunset” Concert, Tencent Binhai Towers, Shenzhen — Butterfly, Hair Like Snow, A Little Love Song
• 2024: Sun Yat-sen University Centenary Celebration Gala, Zhuhai Campus — True Hero, As You Wish, I Believe
• 2024: Autumn Concert, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai Campus — Blue and White Porcelain, My Motherland and Me
• 2024: “Voices Like Summer Flowers” Choir Concert, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai Campus
• 2024: Graduation Gala, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai Campus — A Little Love Song
• 2023: Donghua University Graduation Ceremony — The Road Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom
• 2023: Donghua University original graduation song — Chasing the Stars

Things I Enjoy

• Pop singing: As long as there is a song for me to sing, singing is my life.
• Drawing: I specialize in hand-drawn comics. As a child, I published a Plants vs. Zombies fan-made four-panel comic in the readers’ section of Comic Fans. I also created more than ten single-volume Dungeon Fighter Online fan comics (unpublished).
• Swimming: Freestyle, relaxed breaststroke, heads-up breaststroke, and backstroke. My current time for 1,000 m in a 25 m pool is just under 30 minutes.
• More: I dabble in fitness and portrait photography, and enjoy making creative videos. My comedy and cover-song videos have received more than one million views across platforms.