Vol. XII · No. 144
MON. June 1, 2026 ·
bezenx.com · est. 2025
A notebook of essays, research, photographs & loose ends
Section · About the Editor
— Section B · About the editor —
— Edward Chen, proprietor —
Elsewhere on the wires
A short biography
Edward Chen
CS PhD student · network security & AI safety
I'm a Computer Science PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center, working at the intersection of network security and AI safety — encrypted-traffic analysis, adversarial robustness, and the systems that hold them up.
Outside the lab I am a constant Linux tinkerer and a minimalist photographer. This page is hand-built and slow-moving: notes on tools, papers, networks, and the shape of useful ideas.
Education — a record
2025 — now
PhD in Computer Science
CUNY Graduate Center
2021 — 2024
M.S. in Computer Application Technology
Qilu University of Technology
Skills — the type case
Languages
C
Python
Java
Assembly
C++
Systems
Linux
Git
Docker
Nginx
SQLite
Craft
Photography
Writing
Painting
Selected publications
Chen X, Zhang C, Ji P, Liu Y. SkillsMetric: Mapping the Detection Boundary of Static Analysis for Malicious Agent Skills. ACM CAIS 2026 Workshop on AgentSkills (accepted; to appear).
I tend to write about
Selected projects
ProjecHive
A small full-stack tool that drives git add / commit / push through the GitHub API.
Folium
A desktop knowledge workspace where boxes, double-links, potential links, graph focus, and temporary canvases help a thought become structure without forcing it too early.
FlattenPaper
Arrange all pages of a multi-page PDF side by side into a single long page, with visual preview and per-page margin control.