Short Bio

Dr. Yutian Tang is an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) ([University Profile]) at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (PI, Ph.D. Supervisor). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Prof. Xiapu Luo and Dr. Hareton Leung (Emeritus). He received his B.Sc in Computer Science from Jilin University. His research interests include AI+SE (Large-language Model+SE), program analysis, empirical software engineering, privacy protection, and software testing. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of CCF, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), and EuroSys. He is also a member of EPSRC Peer Review College, a technical committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering, a member of Trustworthy Digital Identity Interest Group and Interpretation, Verification and Modelling Interest Group, The Alan Turing Institute. He also contributes to the IEEE Standards Association P1633 Working Group (IEEE Recommended Practice on Software Reliability).

Yutian has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers with a total citation of at premier software engineering venues such as ICSE, ESEC/FSE, TheWebConf (WWW), ASE, SANER, ISSRE, ICPC conferences, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TReli), JSS, IST journals. One work received the Best Industry Paper Award at ISSRE'18. Three works reported defects in the Android OS, which are confirmed by the Google Security Team. He serves as an Editorial Board Member for the Frontiers in Computer Science journal and Scientific Programming. He also serves as the PC member of over 10 international conferences such as PLDI, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, TheWebConf, ICPC, SANER, CAiSE, EASE, SEKE, MSR, APSEC, MobileSoft, VaMoS. His research is partially supported by National Natural Science of China (NSFC), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, OpenAI, Google. His future research plans are directed towards advancing the techniques to automatically test programs and locate bugs, and providing tool support for their applications.

Collaborative distances: Dijkstra number of 4. Erdős number of 4.

Service: WWW 2025, MSR 2025, ICSE 2025, ASE 2024, FSE 2024, WWW 2024, ICPC 2024, SANER ERC 2024, CAiSE 2024, VAMoS 2024, SEKE 2024

I am looking for PhD students who are self-motivated and have a strong background in software engineering, program analysis, or deep learning. Feel free to [contact me] with your CV, academic transcript and publications (if any) if you are interested. For scholarship, please also reference [this page]. University of Glasgow and the School of Computing Science have a number of PhD scholarships available. As part of your application package, you need to submit a research proposal. Please contact me to discuss the topic before submitting your application. Usual deadline: 31st January every year. See the full advertisement here.

If there are any funding or collaboration opportunities available, please don't hesitate to reach out to me for my resume (in pdf format).

News (all/24/23/22)

[10/2024] Our paper "Unearthing Gas-Wasting Code Smells in Smart Contracts with Large Language Models" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
[09/2024] My proposal to Google Cloud for Researchers Program has been accepted! Thank you Google
[08/2024] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of TheWebConf (WWW) 2025. Please consider submitting your paper!
[08/2024] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of MSR 2025. Please consider submitting your paper!
[07/2024] Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE!
[07/2024] Our latest research is reported on IEEE Specturm "How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really? Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations", find more [here]
[04/2024] Our paper "No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT " has been accepted to to IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!
[03/2024] Our paper "ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation" has been accepted to to IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!
[03/2024] My proposal to OpenAI API Researcher Access Program has been accepted! Thank you OpenAI.
[02/2024] Our paper "Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation" has been accepted to IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!
[11/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of ASE 2024. Please consider submitting your paper!
[11/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of ICSE 2025. Please consider submitting your paper!
[09/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of SEKE 2024.
[09/2023] Our paper "Uncovering bugs in code coverage profilers via control flow constraint solving" has been accepted to IEEE Trans on Software Engineering
[08/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of CAiSE 2024 (36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). Please consider submitting your paper!
[08/2023] The copyright of "Big Data-Based Mobile Application Malicious Component Detection System V1.0 (No. 2023SR0897296)" has been authorized.
[07/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of SANER 2024 ERA Track.
[07/2023] Our paper entitle "Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-granularity Malicious Components" has been accepted to ASE'23.
[07/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of ICPC 2024.
[07/2023] Dr. Tang joined University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom as a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor in US system).

[03/2023] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of APSEC2023

[10/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Review Panel of Shanghai Science and Technology Award.

[09/2022] My proposal is funded by National Natural Science Fundation of China (NSFC)

[07/2022] Our paper entitle "Selectively Combining Multiple Coverage Goals in Search-Based Unit Test Generation" has been accepted to ASE'22

[06/2022] Dr. Tang was interviewed by Voice of China, CCTV [Ref: reference]!

[06/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of ESEC/FSE 2023 (CCF-A) Research Track. Please consider submitting your paper!

[05/2022] Dr. Tang was interviewed by Voice of China, CCTV [Ref: reference]!

[05/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of ESEC/FSE 2022 (CCF-A) AE Track. Please consider submitting your artifact!

[05/2022] Our paper entitled "Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps with User Reviews" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).

[03/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of Future Technologies Conference (FTC). Please consider submitting your paper!

[01/2022] Our paper "Lie to Me: Abusing the Mobile Content Sharing Service for Fun and Profit" has been accepted to WWW'2022

[01/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of PLDI 2022 (CCF-A) AE Track. Please consider submitting your artifact!

[01/2022] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of MobileSoft 2022 Industry Track. Please consider submitting your paper!