Chen Yang

Hi there!🎆

I am Chen Yang, a PhD student in the software engineering team at the College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University. I previously obtained my master's degree from Tianjin University under the supervision of Professor Junjie Chen, and I am currently continuing my research with him. My research interests include test generation and AI for SE.

News

• Dec 9, 2024: Our research paper "Robustness Evaluation of Code Generation Systems via Concretizing Instructions" was accepted by IST.
• Aug 6, 2024: Our research paper "On the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Unit Test Generation" was accepted by ASE'24.
• June 21, 2024: Our research paper "Dependency-aware Code Naturalness" was accepted by OOPSLA'24.
• Jan 17, 2023 : Our research paper "Silent Compiler Bug De-duplication via Three-Dimensional Analysis" was accepted by ISSTA'23.
• June 3, 2022 : I won the 3rd place at the 2022 ACM's Student Research Competition Grand Finals (undergraduate category). My research is "Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering", which won the 1st place at ESEC/FSE 2021 SRC. Thanks for the recognition!
• Sep 2, 2021 : I won gold award at ESEC/FSE 2021 Student Research Competition (undergraduate category). My research is "Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering". Thanks for the recognition!

Publications

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

• [preprint] Refining Test Semantics: Boosting LLM-Driven Unit Test Generation with Enhanced Clarity
  Chen Yang, Lin Yang, Ziqi Wang, Dong Wang, Jianyi Zhou, Junjie Chen*
  
• [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
• [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 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 27 October - 1 November, 2024, Sacramento, California, USA
• [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
• [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 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 17 - 21, 2023, Seattle, USA
• [ESEC/FSE-SRC'21] Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering (CCF-A)
  Chen Yang
  In: The 29th 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)
• [IST'24] 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

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)
• co-reviewer: ASE'23, ASE'24, ISSTA'24, ICSE'24, FSE'24, ICST'25, ISSTA'25