25 publications in top-tier SE and security venues (e.g., ICSE, ASE, TSE, TOSEM, IEEE S&P), including 9 as lead (first/co-first/corresponding) author; multiple academic honors, including ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Nomination (ASE’22), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award (ASE’25), Honorable Mention Award (ACSAC’22), IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award (TSE’24); research support grants from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program and the Google Cloud Research Program; internal awards include SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship (2023), SCIS Research Excellence Award (2025), SCIS Dean’s List Award (2023&2025), and SMU Research Staff Excellence Awards (2025)
Research Experience
Research Engineer, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University; Research Assistant, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Advisor: Dr. Shi Wang)
Education
B.S.: Yangzhou University (Advisor: Professor Junwu Zhu); Ph.D.: Singapore Management University (Advisor: Professor David Lo, ACM/IEEE/ASE Fellow)
Background
Research Interests: Intersection of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, particularly program synthesis techniques; Professional Field: Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence; Brief Introduction: 4th-year Ph.D. Candidate and Research Engineer at the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU).
Miscellany
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