Sicong Cao

545 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 330 citations indexed

About

Sicong Cao is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Sicong Cao has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 330 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Information Systems, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Sicong Cao's work include Software Engineering Research (9 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (6 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers). Sicong Cao is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (9 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (6 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers). Sicong Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Singapore. Sicong Cao's co-authors include Lili Bo, Xiaobing Sun, Bin Li, Weiqin Ying, Rongxin Wu, Bin Li, David Lo, Xin Zhou, Yu Ouyang and Tao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Information and Software Technology.

In The Last Decade

Sicong Cao

14 papers receiving 320 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection

2021 148 citations Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun et al. Information and Software Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sicong Cao China	9	256	181	176	103	74	15	330
Xiaorui Gong China	7	161 0.6×	256 1.4×	139 0.8×	113 1.1×	126 1.7×	17	309
Qiyi Tang China	9	182 0.7×	153 0.8×	108 0.6×	100 1.0×	65 0.9×	14	265
Aram Hovsepyan Belgium	6	326 1.3×	198 1.1×	210 1.2×	60 0.6×	71 1.0×	10	376
Xinhui Han China	8	224 0.9×	337 1.9×	120 0.7×	143 1.4×	203 2.7×	31	394
Simon Holm Jensen Denmark	5	258 1.0×	124 0.7×	233 1.3×	100 1.0×	64 0.9×	5	332
Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky Germany	7	114 0.4×	193 1.1×	86 0.5×	96 0.9×	74 1.0×	11	210
Pan Bian China	6	125 0.5×	111 0.6×	114 0.6×	41 0.4×	43 0.6×	8	178
Yannic Noller Singapore	7	169 0.7×	77 0.4×	192 1.1×	47 0.5×	36 0.5×	21	247
Chu-Pan Wong United States	8	284 1.1×	64 0.4×	238 1.4×	95 0.9×	83 1.1×	10	327
Justin Sahs United States	3	154 0.6×	307 1.7×	142 0.8×	96 0.9×	216 2.9×	6	335

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sicong Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sicong Cao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sicong Cao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sicong Cao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sicong Cao. Sicong Cao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Zhou, Mingxuan, Sicong Cao, Xiaoxue Wu, et al.. (2025). HgtJIT: Just-in-Time Vulnerability Detection Based on Heterogeneous Graph Transformer. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(6). 6522–6538. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Sicong, Xiaobing Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari, et al.. (2025). A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering. ACM Computing Surveys. 58(4). 1–34.

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Cao, Sicong, Xiaobing Sun, David Lo, et al.. (2024). Snopy: Bridging Sample Denoising with Causal Graph Learning for Effective Vulnerability Detection. 606–618. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Sicong, et al.. (2024). Coca: Improving and Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Vulnerability Detection Systems. 1–13. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaobing, et al.. (2024). 1+1>2: Integrating Deep Code Behaviors with Metadata Features for Malicious PyPI Package Detection. 1159–1170. 2 indexed citations

6.

Cao, Sicong, Xiaobing Sun, Di Wu, et al.. (2024). EXVul: Toward Effective and Explainable Vulnerability Detection for IoT Devices. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(12). 22385–22398. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xin, Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, & David Lo. (2024). Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(5). 1–31. 20 indexed citations

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Cao, Sicong, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, et al.. (2023). Learning to Detect Memory-related Vulnerabilities. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(2). 1–35. 11 indexed citations

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Cao, Sicong, Biao He, Yu Ouyang, et al.. (2023). ODDFuzz: Discovering Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities via Structure-Aware Directed Greybox Fuzzing. 2726–2743. 14 indexed citations

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Cao, Sicong, Lili Bo, Bin Li, et al.. (2023). Improving Java Deserialization Gadget Chain Mining via Overriding-Guided Object Generation. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhou, Lili Bo, Xiaobing Sun, et al.. (2022). SPVF: security property assisted vulnerability fixing via attention-based models. Empirical Software Engineering. 27(7). 12 indexed citations

12.

Cao, Sicong, et al.. (2022). MVD. arXiv (Cornell University). 1456–1468. 68 indexed citations

13.

Ying, Weiqin, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, et al.. (2021). A comprehensive study on security bug characteristics. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 33(10). 19 indexed citations

14.

Tang, Ben Zhong, et al.. (2021). GrasP: Graph-to-Sequence Learning for Automated Program Repair. 819–828. 3 indexed citations

15.

Cao, Sicong, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Weiqin Ying, & Bin Li. (2021). BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection. Information and Software Technology. 136. 106576–106576. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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