Yutian Tang

Short Bio

Dr. Yutian Tang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, where he leads research on trustworthy AI generated software and supervises PhD students. His research sits at the intersection of AI coding agents, large language models for software engineering, software security, mobile ecosystems, and benchmark driven evaluation. [CV]. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervised by Prof. Xiapu Luo and Dr. Hareton Leung. In 2025, he visited Lund University as a visiting scholar hosted by Prof. Per Runeson.

He has published 50+ top tier papers at premier software engineering and computer science venues, including ICSE, ESEC/FSE, OOPSLA, CCS, WWW, ASE, ISSTA, IEEE TSE, and ACM TOSEM. His work has received the Best Industry Paper Award at ISSRE and the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE. Three of his works reported defects in the Android OS that were confirmed by the Google Security Team. His current research agenda develops evidence based methods for evaluating, testing, and governing AI generated software. The central question is practical: when should AI generated software be trusted, when must it be tested, and when should it be rejected? This agenda connects software reliability, security, accountability, and public trust in everyday digital systems increasingly built or modified by AI.

Dr. Tang is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM, CCF, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), and EuroSys. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, a technical committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering, and a contributor to the IEEE Standards Association P1633 Working Group on software reliability. His broader professional activities include roles with Informatics Europe working groups and Alan Turing Institute interest groups related to trustworthy digital identity, interpretation, verification, and modelling. He serves as a program chair or co chair for EASE, APSEC, and Internetware, and has served as a program committee member for more than 20 international conferences, including PLDI, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, TheWebConf, ICPC, SANER, CAiSE, EASE, SEKE, MSR, APSEC, MobileSoft, and VaMoS, with 50+ total service instances. His research has been partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, OpenAI, Google, and Lund University.

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

Current Service: ICSE 2027, FSE 2027, APSEC 26 ERC Track Co-Chair, EASE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Co-chair. ASE 2026, ASE NIER 2026, ICSE 2026, FSE 2026, APSEC 2026, MSR 2026, ICPC 2026, WWW 2026

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