Zhou YANG 杨 洲 Pronunciation
Assistant Professor
University of Alberta
Fun Fact:
Yangzhou graduated from Yangzhou University in Yangzhou City 🇨🇳
I'm the funniest teacher🧑🏫 in Jurong West Primary School🇸🇬 (Unofficially nominated by several kids)
Research & U-A-Goose
I lead the U-A-Goose Software Engineering Research Group at the University of Alberta. We study trustworthy software engineering in the AI era, asking: How can we help AI learn from limited, incomplete experience to reliably build and evolve complex software systems?
We use software engineering knowledge to shape better learning objectives, experiences, and feedback, helping models explore beyond established solutions and refine their judgments in light of verifiable evidence.
Awards & honors
View all awards ↗- 2026Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- 2026MSR Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
- 2026ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- 2025Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2025
- 2025IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award
- 2024SMU Research Staff Excellence Awards
- 2024ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA 2024
- 2024Distinguished Reviewer Award, Internetware
- 2024SMU Presidential Fellowship & Dean's List Award
- 2024Gold Medal, ACM Student Research Competition, ICSE
- 2022Honorable Mention Award, ACSAC
Professional services & talks
View all services ↗Organizing
- AIware 2027Benchmark & Dataset Track Co-Chair
- ICSME 2027Tutorials Co-Chair
- ISSRE 2027Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair
- ICPC 2027Journal First Co-Chair
- FORGE 2027Data and Benchmarking Track Co-Chair
- CSER 2026Program Co-Chair
- Poisoned Chalice Competition 2026Program Chair
- HumanAISE 2026General Co-Chair
- FSE 2026Social Media Co-Chair
- FORGE 2026Social Media Co-Chair
- EASE 2026AI Models / Data Track Co-Chair
- QUATIC 2025Security and Privacy Track Co-Chair
- ICSE 2025Web Co-Chair
Program Committee
- 2027
-
- ICSE (Research Track);
- FSE (Research Track);
- FSE (Industry Track);
- ICSME (Research Track);
- CAIN (Research Track);
- ICLR (Reviewer);
- 2026
-
- ICSE (Research Track);
- FSE (Research Track);
- FSE (IVR Track);
- ASE (Research Track);
- ASE (NIER Track);
- ICSME (Research Track);
- ICSME (RENE Track);
- Internetware (Research Track);
- APSEC (Tool Demonstration Track);
- EASE (Doctoral Symposium);
- CASCON (Poster Track);
- PST (Emerging Technologies Track);
- ICSS;
- 2025
-
- ICSE (Shadow PC);
- FSE (Tool Demo Track);
- ASE (Research Track);
- ICSME;
- ISSTA (Tool Demo Track);
- Internetware (Research Track);
- APSEC (Tool Demonstration Track);
- EASE (AI Models / Data Track);
- CASCON (Tutorials Track);
- COMPSAC (SETA Track);
- 2024
-
- Internetware (Research Track);
- APSEC (Technical Track);
- ICTSS (Industry Track);
- FORGE (Research Track);
- MSR (Junior PC);
- 2023
-
- ECAI;
- 2022
-
- MSR (Shadow PC);
Journal Editing and Reviewing
- TSE Associate Editor 2026–Present
- EMSE Guest Editor 2026–Present
Invited Talks
- ChinaSoft 2026, Tianjin
- Global Software Technology Summit, Canada
- China OSS Conference, Chongqing
- ANGE 2026, ICSA 2026
- Openmind, Canada
- MTX 2026, Singapore
- SVM 2026, Brazil
- Waterloo Innovation Forum, Canada
- Peking University, PR China
- CSER 2025 Fall, Canada
- Global Software Technology Summit, Canada
- What's beyond the accuracy of code models? — TU Delft
Journal Review: Empirical Software Engineering · Communications of the ACM · IEEE TDSC · IEEE TSE · ACM TOSEM · JSEP, ...
Awards Committee: MSR 2027
Meet & connect
Please read my preferences on communication.
Funding &
institutional support
