Zhou YANG(杨 洲) [Pronunciation] Ph.D at Singapore Management University🇸🇬 The funniest teacher🧑‍🏫 in Jurong West Primary School🇸🇬 (Unofficially nominated by several kids) M.Sc. from Software System Engineering, University College London🇬🇧 B.Eng. from School of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University🇨🇳 An interesting story: Yangzhou graduated from Yangzhou University in Yangzhou City. News | Research Horizon | About Me | Publications | Talks | Services | Awards Email: zyang@smu.edu.sg ; zhouyang.2021@phdcs.smu.edu.sg [Google Scholar] [GitHub] [Instagram]

Currently, I am a Research Engineer and doing PhD at SMU. I am a member of Software Analytics Research Group, supervised by Prof. David LO. My main focus is "beyond accuracy of language models of code." I study a broad of properties including robustness, security, privacy, efficiency, fairness and usability of code model ecosystem. I also have publication records in the general AI testing, including evaluating correctness of ASR systems, fairness of NLP models, security threats in reinforcement learning models, etc. Our group and I are open to collaboration and communication.

I was a MSc student at University College London, studying Software System Engineering. My master dissertation is about automated program repair for syntax errors, which is co-supervised by Prof. Earl Barr (UCL) and Prof. Martin Monperrus (KTH).

I obtained my bachelor in software engineering from Yangzhou University, China (Yes, very interesting, I have the same name as my university!) I was member of the Elite class of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and selected as the outstanding graduate. At the same time of guaranteeing 1st GPA, I also served as the leader of two university-level student organisations. I had a very enjoyable and memorable time here.

• [2024.03] One paper is accepted by IEEE S&P 2024!
• [2024.01] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering!
• [2023.10] One paper is accepted by SEIS Track of ICSE 2024! See you in Lisbon!
• [2023.11] I'm happy to serve as Junior Program Committee in MSR 2024!
• [2023.10] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ICSE 2024! See you in Lisbon!
• [2023.07] 😫My father is diagnosed with cancer. I have to support my family and pause research projects for a while. ⚠️Do take medical screening regularly if you happen to see my webpage.
• [2023.06] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ICSME 2023!
• [2023.06] I recieved SIGSOFT Travel Support from CAPS program. See you in Seattle!
• [2023.05] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ISSTA 2023!
• [2023.04] I gave an invited talk at TU Delft, titled "What’s beyond the accuracy of code models?
• [2023.03] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of MSR 2023! See you in Melbourne!
• [2023.03] One paper is accepted by Data and Tool Showcase Track of MSR 2023!
• [2023.03] I did a presentation at Yangzhou University.
• [2023.02] One journal paper will be presented at Journal First Track of ICSE 2023 ! See you in Melbourne!
• [2023.01] One paper is accepted by Tool Demo Track of ICST 2023 !
• [2022.12] One paper is accepted by Research Track of SANER 2023 ! Looking forward to seeing you in Macau soon!
• [2022.12] Our paper wins the Honorable Mention Award in ACSAC 2022!
• [2022.11] I pass my Qualifying Exam!
• [2022.10] I attend the physical ASE 2022 in Michigan! See some photos!
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• [2022.09] One paper is accepted by the Technical track of ACSAC 2022!
• [2022.07] Two papers are accepted by the Research track of ASE 2022!
• [2022.07] I am awarded the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship!
• [2022.05] I attend the physical ICSE 2022 in Pittsburgh!
• [2022.03] One paper is accepted by the Research track of ICPC 2022!
• [2022.01] I serve as a Technical Program Committee member in AICS 2022!
• [2022.01] I'm selected as the Shadow PC of MSR 2022!
• [2021.12] Three papers are accepted by SANER 2022 ERA, RENE and Technical Track!
• [2021.12] One paper is accepted by IEEE TSE!
• [2021.12] One paper is accepted by ICSE 2022 Technical Track!
• [2021.10] I start to serve as a reviewer of the Neurocomputing journal.
• [2021.08] I become a PhD Student at SMU!
• [2021.08] Two papers are accepted by the NIER track of ICSME 2021!
• [2021.07] One paper is accepted by Tool Demonstraction track of ASE 2021!
• [2021.06] Two papers are accepted by the Demonstraction track of ESEC/FSE 2021!
• [2021.04] I will serve at the Web Co-Chair of MSR 2022!
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• [2020.09] Joined Software Analytics Research Group of Singapore Management University as a research engineer.

[15] Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Yue Liu, Zhou Yang, Kailong Wang, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, David Lo, John Grundy, Haoyu Wang. Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review" Preprint. [PDF]

[14] Zhou Yang, Zhensu Sun, Terry Yue Zhuo, Premkumar Devanbu, and David Lo. Robustness, Security, Privacy, Explainability, Efficiency, and Usability of Large Language Models for Code" Preprint.

[13] Zhou Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Chenyu Wang, Jieke Shi, Dongsun Kim, DongGyun Han, David Lo. What Do Code Models Memorize? An Empirical Study on Large Language Models of Code" The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) (13 Pages, Technical Track) [Slides]

[12] Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Junda He and David Lo. "Natural Attack for Pre-trained Models of Code." 2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). (12 pages, Technical Track.)

[11] Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi and David Lo. "Revisiting Neuron Coverage Metrics and Quality of Deep Neural Networks." 2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). (12 pages)

[10] Zhou Yang, Bowen Xu, Jie M Zhang, Hong Jin Kang, Jieke Shi, Junda He, David Lo. "Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

[9] Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Hilmi Asyrofi, Bowen Xu, Xin Zhou, DongGyun Han, David Lo. Prioritizing Speech Test Cases." Under Revision of ACM TOSEM

[8] Zhou Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Chenyu Wang, Jieke Shi, Dongsun Kim, DongGyun Han, David Lo. Gotcha! This Model Uses My Code! Evaluating Membership Leakage Risks in Code Models." Under Review of ACM TOSEM

[7] Zhou Yang, Chenyu Wang, Jieke Shi et al. "What Do Users Ask in Open-Source AI Repositories? An Empirical Study of GitHub Issues" The 20th IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023) (12 pages, Technical Track.)

[6] Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang🐟, Hong Jin Kang, Bowen Xu, Junda He, David Lo. "Greening Large Language Models of Code." The 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (12 pages, SEIS Track.)

[5] Junda He, Zhou Yang🐟, Jieke Shi et al. "Curiosity-Driven Testing for Sequential Decision-Making Process" The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) (13 Pages, Technical Track)

[4] Chen Gong, Zhou Yang🐟, Yunpeng Bai, et al. "Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies" The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022) (15 pages, Technical Track.) [Honorable Mention Award]

[3] Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang, Bowen Xu, Hong Jin Kang, David Lo "Compressing Pre-trained Models of Code into 3 MB" The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. (ASE 2022) (12 pages, Research Track.) [Nomination for Distinguish Paper Award]

[2] Chen Gong, Zhou Yang🐟, Yunpeng Bai et al. Mind Your Data! Hiding Backdoors in Offline Reinforcement Learning Datasets." 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2024).

[1] Asyrofi Hilmi, Zhou Yang🐟, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo."BiasFinder: Metamorphic Test Generation to Uncover Bias for Sentiment Analysis Systems." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Reviewing:

• JSEP, 2024-Now
• TSE, 2023-Now
• TOSEM, 2023-Now
• Neurocomputing Journal, 2021-Now

Conference Activities:

• Web Co-Chair, ICSE 2025
• PC Member, Internetware 2024
• PC Member, Forge 2024
• Junor PC Member, MSR 2024
• PC Member, ECAI 2023
• PC Member, AICS 2022
• Shadow PC Member, MSR 2022
• Web Co-Chair, MSR 2022

• SANER Student Travel Grant, 2023
• SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2022
• The Zhu Jing Wen Scholarship (Awarded to top 1 student in class with higher standard), 2017
• The First Level President Scholarship (Awarded to top 1 student in class), 2016

• Chenyu Wang, a PhD Student at SMU, working on understanding the best practice of developing industrial AI systems.
• Yunbo Lyu, a PhD Student at SMU, working on testing AI-enabled systems.
• MSc Graduation Project at SMU, evaluating the deprecated API recommneded by ChatGPT.
• 2023 Graduation projects in Monash Malaysia, working on analyzing ChatGPT.
• 2022 Graduation projects in Monash Malaysia, publication SANER23, ICST23, ISSTA23
• Chen Gong (Visiting Student from CAS, will be a Ph.D Student in University of Virginia), publication: ACSAC22, TSE
• Hui Ning Ko (SMU Undergraduate), work on bug localization
• Harshit Jain (SMU Undergraduate), publication: ICSME21
• Wei Quan Chu (SMU Undergraduate), publication: ICSME21
• Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi (Research Engineer, now a data scientist in PropertyGuru Group), publication: TSE, FSE21, ICSME21, SANER22