Juantao Zhong

Juantao Zhong

Research Assistant at Lingnan University

Juantao Zhong (钟隽韬 in Chinese) is now a research assistant at Lingnan University supervised by Prof. Daoyuan Wu. He received his MSc degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2024 and bachelor degree from South China University of Technology in 2022. His research interests encompass LLM for cybersecurity, LLM compliance, and Blockchain security.

📖 Educations

  • 2023.08 - 2024.06, MSc student at college of computing and data science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate student at school of computer science and engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R.C.

💻 Working Experience

  • 2025.11 - now, Research Assistant supervised by Prof. Daoyuan Wu, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2025.04 - 2025.10, Research Assistant supervised by Prof. Daoyuan Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2024.09 - 2025.01, Research Assistant supervised by Prof. Ning Liu and Prof. Daoyuan Wu, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

📰 News

  • 09/2025: 🎉Paper “Detecting Various DeFi Price Manipulations with LLM Reasoning” was accepted by ASE 2025.

📝 Selected Publications [Full List]

  • Detecting Various DeFi Price Manipulations with LLM Reasoning

    • Juantao Zhong#, Daoyuan Wu#, Ye Liu*, Maoyi Xie, Yang Liu, Yi Li, and Ning Liu

    • Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) | Citations: 6

    • This paper is about using fine-tuned LLMs to infer price change tendency of tokens for detecting price manipulations.
    • DeFiScope is now open-sourced. Find more at this website.

📬 Services