Short Bio

Dr. Yutian Tang is an Assistant Professor ([University Profile],[CV]) at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (PI, Ph.D. Supervisor). His group develops secure, reliable, and accountable AI-driven software engineering systems, with a current focus on LLM agents, software security, mobile ecosystems, and benchmark-driven evaluation. His research interests include LLM, Agentic AI, AI reliability, AI security, alignment, watermark/copyright, bias, green and sustainable AI, program analysis, empirical software engineering, privacy protection, software testing. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, CCF, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), and EuroSys. He is a member of EPSRC Peer Review College, a technical committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering. He is a member of Early Career Researchers Working Group, Data Analysis and Reporting Working Group of Informatics Europe, He is also affiliated with 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 50+ top-tier papers at premier software engineering venues such as ICSE, ESEC/FSE, OOPSLA, CCS, TheWebConf (WWW), ASE, ISSTA, SANER, ISSRE, ICPC conferences, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TReli), JSS, IST journals. His works received the Best Industry Paper Award at ISSRE, and ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE. 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 serves as a program chair (or co-chair) for EASE, APSEC, and Internetware. He also serves as the PC member of over 20 international conferences such as PLDI, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, TheWebConf, ICPC, SANER, CAiSE, EASE, SEKE, MSR, APSEC, MobileSoft, VaMoS, with 40+ total instances of services. His research is partially supported by National Natural Science of China (NSFC), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, OpenAI, Google.

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

News (all/26/25/24)

• [04/2026] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ASE 2026 NIER Track.
• [04/2026] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Organizing Committee of APSEC 2026 as Early Research Achievements (ERA) Co-chair
• [04/2026] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of APSEC 2026.
• [04/2026] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of FSE 2027.
• [03/2026] Our paper received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE 2026
• [02/2026] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ICSE 2027.
• [12/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ASE 2026.
• [12/2025] Our paper titled "Beyond Coverage: Automatic Test Suite Augmentation for Enhanced Effectiveness Using Large Language Models " has been accepted to OOPSLA 2026
• [12/2025] Our paper titled "An Empirical Study on Low Code Programming using Traditional vs Large Language Model Support" has been accepted to Journal of Systems and Software
• [10/2025] Our paper titled "WhisperCatcher: Demystifying Unauthorized and Encrypted Private Data Transmission in Android Applications" has been accepted to ICSE'26
• [09/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of WWW 2026.
• [08/2025] Dr. Tang received an OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant.
• [07/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ICPC 2026.
• [06/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of MSR 2026.
• [06/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of FSE 2026.
• [05/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ASE 2025.
• [05/2025] Our paper titled "Feedback analysis in software product line forked developments" has been accepted to SPLC 2025
• [04/2025] Our proposal with Prof. Per (Lund University) has been accepted! Looking forward to visiting colleagues in Lund University soon!
• [04/2025] Our paper titled "LLM-CompDroid: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Bugs in Android Apps with Pre-trained Large Language Models" has been accepted by TOSEM
• [03/2025] Our paper titled "A Systematic Study on Real-world Android App Bundles" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering! My 10th TSE paper!
• [03/2025] Our paper titled "KEENHash: Hashing Programs into Function-aware Embeddings for Large-scale Binary Code Similarity Analysis" has been accepted by ISSTA'25
• [03/2025] Reach 1,000+ citations!
• [03/2025] Our paper titled "Characterising Bugs in Jupyter Platform" has been accepted by EASE'25
• [03/2025] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of APSEC 2025.
• [02/2025] Our paper titled "Artemis: Toward Accurate Detection of Server-Side Request Forgeries through LLM-Assisted Inter-Procedural Path-Sensitive Taint Analysis" has been accepted by OOPSLA'25
• [01/2025] Our paper titled "SmartOracle: Generating Smart Contract Oracle via Fine-Grained Invariant Detection" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• [12/2024] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of ICSE 2026.
• [12/2024] Dr. Tang was invited to join the Program Committee of SEKE 2025.
• [11/2024] I was invited to review an EPSRC standard research grant proposal.
• [10/2024] Our paper titled "Unearthing Gas-Wasting Code Smells in Smart Contracts with Large Language Models" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• [09/2024] Dr. Tang received a Google Cloud for Researchers award.
• [08/2024] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of TheWebConf (WWW) 2025.
• [08/2024] Dr. Tang joined the Program Committee of MSR 2025.
• [07/2024] I was invited to review an EPSRC proposal for NIA (New Investigator Award).
• [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 titled "No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT " has been accepted by IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!
• [03/2024] Our paper titled "ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation" has been accepted by IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!
• [03/2024] Dr. Tang received support through the OpenAI API Researcher Access Program.
• [02/2024] Our paper titled "Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation" has been accepted by IEEE Trans on Software Engineering!