Academic background

Experience & service.

Research, teaching, and contributions to the software engineering community.

Research appointment

Current

Research Scientist

Equivalent to a Postdoctoral Fellow

Singapore Management University · Singapore

Software Engineering · Working with Prof. David Lo

Education

Aug. 2020 – Jan. 2025

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Singapore Management University

School of Computing and Information Systems

GPA: 3.99 / 4.00

Aug. 2016 – Jul. 2020

B.S. in Automation Engineering

Beijing Institute of Technology

Grade: 88.9 / 100 · Graduation rank: 4 / 81

Grant proposal contributions

Titan Code Analysis: Vulnerability Discovery with Large Code Models

Contributed to writing part of the funding proposal.

Funding agencies: National Research Foundation, Singapore, and the Smart Nation Group, Singapore

Total project funding awarded: S$3.87M

Teaching

2024

Advanced Research Topics

Teaching Assistant · Singapore Management University

2023

Advanced Research Topics

Teaching Assistant · Singapore Management University

2022

Introduction to Programming

Teaching Assistant · Singapore Management University

Academic service

Program committees

2026, 2027

ICSE

Research Track · Program Committee

2026

ICSME

Research Papers Track · Program Committee

2026

ESEC/FSE

Tutorials Track · Program Committee

2025

Promoting and Dealing with Advanced Technology in Healthcare

Program Committee

2025

AIware

Main Track · Program Committee

2024, 2025

FORGE

Research Track · Program Committee

2024

ICTSS

Industry Track · Program Committee

2023, 2024

MSR

Technical Papers Track · Junior Program Committee

Journal reviewing

  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Journal of Software
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
  • Automated Software Engineering
  • Communications of the ACM (CACM)

Workshop reviewing

2025

ICLR Workshop on Deep Learning for Code

Reviewer

Recognition & volunteering

2024

Distinguished Junior Program Committee Reviewer

MSR

2023

Student Volunteer

ICSME

Mentoring & Collaborating

At SMU, I collaborated with and guided the following students and junior researchers.

  • Jianming Chang

    Visiting PhD student

  • Pietro Cassieri

    Visiting PhD student

  • Beiqi Zhang

    Visiting master's student

  • Haotian Zhu

    Research engineer

  • Joshua Sumarlin

    Research assistant

  • Christian Michael Koh

    Undergraduate student

  • Kanika Selvapandian

    Undergraduate student

Honors & awards

2024

SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Computing

2024

ICSE Student Travel Grant

2020–24

Full Scholarship for Ph.D. Study

2018

Outstanding Student Award

Beijing Institute of Technology

2017

Meritorious Winner

Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)