A Hong Kong research company, five years in
Sparkle In Technology Investment Limited was established in 2021 to commercialise binary code dynamic analysis, developed in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Our story
In collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, we developed binary code analysis technology and built three core products around it. Software bill of materials analysis runs alongside all three.
We are in a strategic partnership with the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) to co-develop four products, drawing on ASTRI's research capability to advance both our product line and the field of binary code analysis.
Our Commitments
Technology-driven security
Six years of university research, turned into methods that protect digital assets and strengthen enterprise defences.
Setting the standard
Standards for binary code security are still being written. We intend to take part in that work, and to hold ourselves to the result first.
Invested in Hong Kong
We continue to invest in research and development in Hong Kong and internationally, so our clients stay ahead of the threats they face.
Technical Advisory Committee
A management-level advisory body
Drawn from academic research in program analysis, and from our own engineering practice.
Prof. Charles Chuan Zhang張川教授
Chairman
Prof. Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Director of the department's Cybersecurity Lab. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. His research covers static program analysis, binary code analysis and vulnerability detection, with an emphasis on bringing program analysis to industrial scale, the field on which Sparkle In's technology is built. He co-founded and chaired Sourcebrella Inc., a static analysis tool vendor, which was acquired by Ant Group in 2020, and has received the Huawei Distinguished Collaborator Award. Papers from his research group have taken best-paper and distinguished-paper awards at ASPLOS, ISSTA, OOPSLA, ICSE and PLDI, and in 2025 he chaired SPLASH, the annual ACM SIGPLAN conference.
Dr. Anshunkang Zhou周安博士
Member
Dr. Zhou specialises in binary program analysis, including binary lifting, cross-compiler function and component identification, and the recovery of software composition where neither source code nor debug information is available. He holds a doctorate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, with a thesis entitled Towards Industrial-Scale Software Binary Analysis. He is the author of four systems, PLANKTON, ARCTURUS, DIATOM and KRAKEN, published at ASPLOS, OOPSLA, ISSTA and in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
Justin C.H. Lin林俊孝先生
Member · Chief Technology Officer
Justin Lin is our Chief Technology Officer. He joined in 2022 and is responsible for the core architecture of our vulnerability scanning platform and for forward-looking research in binary code composition analysis. He has worked in software since 1998, at Garmin on cross-platform navigation software and real-time location services, at Ubiquiti Networks leading development of Android-based VoIP products, and at Picowork as Chief Technology Officer, leading development of a collaborative cloud operating system. His expertise spans system architecture, embedded and cross-platform software engineering, and distributed systems. He holds a master's degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taipei University of Technology, and a second master's from the Patent Institute of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
Let's work together
Tell us what you need to inspect. We will come back with a scope, a timeline and, if it helps, a scan of one of your own assets.
Office
C2, 5/F, TML Tower,3 Hoi Shing Road,Tsuen Wan, New Territories,Hong Kong