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Zhou YANG 杨 洲 [Pronunciation]

Assistant Professor at University of Alberta 🇨🇦

Ph.D at Singapore Management University 🇸🇬

M.Sc. from Software System Engineering, University College London 🇬🇧

Interesting story 1: Yangzhou graduated from Yangzhou University in Yangzhou City 🇨🇳.

Interesting story 2: I’m the funniest teacher🧑‍🏫 in Jurong West Primary School🇸🇬 (Unofficially nominated by several kids).

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

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I am looking for a few self-motivated graduate students (both PhD program and Master program) at University of Alberta, working in the area of software engineering, AI, cybersecurity, and related topics. If you are interested in applying, please read notes for prospective students and drop me an email.

News

• [2025.08] Two papers (on understanding user perceptions of AI coding assistants and reducing the token usage of code generators) are accepted by ASE 2025!
• [2025.08] Our paper wins the prestigious 2024 IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award🏆! (1 out of 183)
• [2025.07] One paper (on the fairness of image generation systems) has been accepted by Multimedia 2025!
• [2025.06] One paper (on mitigating privacy issues of LLM4Code) has been accepted by ICSE 2026!
• [2025.04] One paper (LLM4Code ecosystem) is accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
• [2024.03] Happy to be the PC Co-Chair of the QUATIC 2025 Security and Privacy (SP) Track.
• [2025.01] One paper (on monitoring RL systems at runtime) is accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
• [2024.12] Happy to be the PC member of ICSE 2026 Technical Track, FSE 2025 Demonstration Track, and ISSTA 2025 Demonstration Track!
• [2024.12] I have defended my PhD thesis and now become Dr. Yang!
• [2024.11] One paper (on prioritizing speech test cases) is accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
• [2024.10] One paper (on greening code LLMs) is accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
• [2024.10] One paper (on infering membership inforamtion of code LLMs) is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering!
• [2024.10] I won the SMU Research Staff Excellence Awards🏆, only 4 winners across the whole SMU!
• [2024.09] Our systematic literature review of LLM4Code is accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
• [2024.09] Our paper won the ACM Distinguish Paper Award🏆 from ISSTA 2024!
• [2024.07] I recieved the Distinguish Reviewer Award from Internetware 2024!
• [2024.07] One paper is accepted by ACM ISSTA 2024!
• [2024.06] I’m honored to win the SMU Presidential Fellowship Award🏆 and SMU Dean’s List Award🏆!
• [2024.05] One paper is accepted by Software Engineering 2030!
• [2024.04] I’m honored to win the 1st Place in ACM Student Research Competition🏆 in ICSE 2024!
• [2024.04] I’m honored to be promoted to Senior Research Enigneer!

• [2024.03] One paper is accepted by IEEE S&P 2024!
• [2024.01] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering!
• [2023.10] One paper is accepted by SEIS Track of ICSE 2024! See you in Lisbon!
• [2023.11] I’m happy to serve as Junior Program Committee in MSR 2024!
• [2023.10] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ICSE 2024! See you in Lisbon!
• [2023.07] 😫My father is diagnosed with cancer. I have to support my family and pause research projects for a while. ⚠️Do take medical screening regularly if you happen to see my webpage.
• [2023.06] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ICSME 2023!
• [2023.06] I recieved SIGSOFT Travel Support from CAPS program. See you in Seattle!
• [2023.05] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of ISSTA 2023!
• [2023.04] I gave an invited talk at TU Delft, titled “What’s beyond the accuracy of code models?
• [2023.03] One paper is accepted by Technical Track of MSR 2023! See you in Melbourne!