Chen Yang

Hi there!🎆

I am Chen Yang, a first-year PhD student under the supervision of Professor Junjie Chen at the College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University. My research interests mainly include Intelligent Software Engineering, focusing on solving software engineering challenges (such as test generation, fuzzing) with LLMs or deep learning technologies.

Experience

• 09/2018~06/2022: Tianjin University, Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology
• 09/2022~06/2024: Tianjin University, Master of Software Engineering
• 09/2024~now: Tianjin University, Phd student of Software Engineering

Publications

# refers to equal contribution, * refers to the corresponding author

1. [preprint] Enhancing LLM-based Test Generation for Hard-to-Cover Branches via Program Analysis
   Chen Yang, Junjie Chen*, Bin Lin, Ziqi Wang, Jianyi Zhou
   arXiv:2404.04966
2. [FSE'25] De-duplicating Silent Compiler Bugs via Deep Semantic Representation (CCF-A)
   Junjie Chen*, Xingyu Fan, Chen Yang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun
   In: The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Mon 23 - Fri 27 June, 2025, Trondheim, Norway
3. [IST'25] Robustness Evaluation of Code Generation Systems via Concretizing Instructions (CCF-B)
   Ming Yan, Junjie Chen*, Jie Zhang, Xuejie Cao, Chen Yang, Mark Harman
   In: Information and Software Technology, 2024
4. [ASE'24] On the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Unit Test Generation (CCF-A)
   Lin Yang#, Chen Yang#, Shutao Gao, Weijing Wang, Bo Wang, Qihao Zhu, Xiao Chu, Jianyi Zhou, Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang, Junjie Chen*
   In: The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 27 October - 1 November, 2024, Sacramento, California, USA
5. [OOPSLA'24] Dependency-aware Code Naturalness (CCF-A)
   Chen Yang, Junjie Chen*, Jiajun Jiang
   In: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. OOPSLA (2024), Oct 20 - 25, 2024, Pasadena, California, USA
6. [ISSTA'23] Silent Compiler Bug De-duplication via Three-Dimensional Analysis (CCF-A)
   Chen Yang, Junjie Chen*, Xingyu Fan, Jiajun Jiang, Jun Sun
   In: The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 17 - 21, 2023, Seattle, USA
7. [ESEC/FSE-SRC'21] Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering (CCF-A)
   Chen Yang
   In: The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Student Research Competition track, August 23 - 28, 2021, Athens, Greece
   🏆 Student Research Competition Award (Gold in undergraduate category)

Honers & Awards

• 2024: First-Class University Scholarship
• 2024: Outstanding Graduate of Tianjin University (Master degree)
• 2023: Third prize in Prototype System competition of China Software Conference
• 2023: National Scholarship
• 2022: Outstanding Graduate of Tianjin University (Bachelor degree)
• 2022: 🏆 3rd award at ACM's Student Research Competition Grand Finals (undergraduate category)
• 2021: 🏆 Gold award at ESEC/FSE 2021 Student Research Competition (undergraduate category)
• 2021: National Scholarship

Academic Services

• Program Committee (PC) member: MSR'25 (Junior PC)
• external-reviewer: ASE'23, ASE'24, ISSTA'24, ICSE'24, FSE'24, ICST'25, ISSTA'25, ICSME'25, ICSE'25