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2025

• Soffware Engineering for OpenHarmony: A Research Roadmap

  Li Li, Xiang Gao, Hailong Sun, Chunming Hu, Xiaoyu Sun, Haoyu Wang, Haipeng Cai, Ting Su, Xiapu Luo,Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein, John Grundy, Tao Xie, Haibo Chen, Huaimin Wang

  ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2025

• HapTest: The Dynamic Analysis Framework for OpenHarmony CCF-A

  Farong Liu， Mingyi Zhou, Yakun Zhang, Ting Su, Bo Sun, Jacques Klein, Xiang Gao, Li Li

  ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025 Industry)

• Understanding vulnerabilities in software supply chains CCF-B

  Yijun Shen, Xiang Gao#, Hailong Sun, Yu Guo

  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2025

• Enhancing Automated Vulnerability Repair through Dependency Embedding and Pattern Store CCF-B

  Qingao Dong, Yuanzhang Lin, Hailong Sun, Xiang Gao#

  International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2024

2024

• DynaMO: Protecting Mobile DL Models through Coupling Obfuscated DL Operators CCF-A

  Mingyi Zhou, Xiang Gao, Xiao Chen, Chunyang Chen, John Grundy, Li Li

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2024

• LLM-Based Java Concurrent Program to ArkTS Converter CCF-A

  Runlin Liu, Yuhang Lin, Yunge Hu, Zhe Zhang, Xiang Gao#

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Tool (ASE) 2024

• API Misuse Detection via Probabilistic Graphical Model CCF-A

  Yunlong Ma, Wentong Tian, Xiang Gao#, Hailong Sun, Li Li

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2024

• Model-less Is The Best Model: Generating Pure Code Implementations to Replace On-device DL Models CCF-A

  Mingyi Zhou, Xiang Gao, Pei Liu, John Grundy, Chunyang Chen, Xiao Chen, Li Li

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2024

• ProveNFix: Temporal Property guided Program Repair CCF-A

  Yahui Song, Xiang Gao, Wenhua Li, Wei Ngan Chin, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2024

  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

• Modularizing while Training: A New Paradigm for Modularizing DNN Models CCF-A

  Binhang Qi, Hailong Sun#, Hongyu Zhang, Ruobing Zhao, Xiang Gao#

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024

  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

• Investigating White-Box Attacks for On-Device Models CCF-A

  Mingyi Zhou, Xiang Gao, Jing Wu, Kui Liu, Hailong Sun, Li Li

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024

• Investigating and Detecting Silent Bugs in PyTorch Programs CCF-B

  Shuo Hong, Hailong Sun, Xiang Gao#, Shin Hwei Tan

  International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2024

  IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

• Reducing False Positives of Static Bug Detectors through Code Representation Learning CCF-B

  Yixin Yang, Ming Wen, Xiang Gao, Yuting Zhang, Hailong Sun

  International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2024

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2023

• Reusing Convolutional Neural Network Models through Modularization and Composition CCF-A

  Binhang Qi, Hailong Sun, Hongyu Zhang, Xiang Gao

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2023

• Automated Fixing of Web UI Tests via Iterative Element Matching CCF-A

  Yuanzhang Lin, Guoyao Wen, Xiang Gao#

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2023

• ModelObfuscator: Obfuscating Model Information to Protect Deployed ML-based Systems CCF-A

  Mingyi Zhou, Xiang Gao, Jing Wu, John Grundy, Xiao Chen, Chunyang Chen, Li Li

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2023

• Automated Repair of Programs from Large Language Models CCF-A

  Zhiyu Fan, Xiang Gao#, Martin Mirchev, Abhik Roychoudhury,Shin Hwei Tan

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023

• Reusing Deep Neural Network Models through Model Re-engineering CCF-A

  Binhang Qi, Hailong Sun#, Xiang Gao#, Hongyu Zhang, Zhaotian Li, Xudong Liu

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023

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2022

• Patching Weak Convolutional Neural Network Models through Modularization and Composition CCF-A

  Binhang Qi, Hailong Sun#, Xiang Gao#, Hongyu Zhang

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2022

• Program Vulnerability Repair via Inductive Inference CCF-A

  Yuntong Zhang, Xiang Gao#, Gregory J. Duck, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2022

• Trust Enhancement Issues in Program Repair CCF-A

  Yannic Noller, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Xiang Gao, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2022

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Before 2022

• Overfitting in Program Repair and Program Synthesis

  Xiang Gao

  PhD Dissertation, National University of Singapore, 2021

• Scalable Fuzzing of Program Binaries with E9AFL CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Gregory J. Duck, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Tool (ASE) 2021

• APIfix: Output-Oriented Program Synthesis for Combating Breaking Changes in Libraries CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Arjun Radhakrishna, Gustavo Soares, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Sumit Gulwani, Abhik Roychoudhury

  Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2021

• Automated Patch Backporting in Linux (Experience Paper) CCF-A

  Ridwan Shariffdeen*, Xiang Gao*, Gregory J. Duck, Shin Hwei Tan, Julia Lawall, Abhik Roychoudhury (*co-first author)

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2021

  Distinguished Artifact Award

• Beyond Tests: Program Vulnerability Repair via Crash Constraint Extraction CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Bo Wang, Gregory J. Duck, Ruyi Ji, Yingfei Xiong, Abhik Roychoudhury

  Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2021

• Feedback-Driven Semi-Supervised Synthesis of Program Transformations CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Shraddha Barke, Arjun Radhakrishna, Gustavo Soares, Sumit Gulwani, Alan Leung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Ashish Tiwari

  Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2020

• Binary Rewriting without Control Flow Recovery CCF-A

  Gregory J. Duck, Xiang Gao, Abhik Roychoudhury

  Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2020

• Interactive Patch Generation and Suggestion

  Xiang Gao, Abhik Roychoudhury

  Automated Program Repair Workshop (APR @ ICSE) 2020

• Fuzz Testing based Data Augmentation to Improve Robustness of Deep Neural Networks CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Ripon K. Saha, Mukul R. Prasad, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2020.

• Crash-avoiding Program Repair CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Sergey Mechtaev, Abhik Roychoudhury

  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2019.

• Android Testing via Synthetic Symbolic Execution CCF-A

  Xiang Gao, Shin Hwei Tan, Zhen Dong, Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2018.

• Repairing Crashes in Android Apps  CCF-A

  Shin Hwei Tan, Zhen Dong, Xiang Gao, and Abhik Roychoudhury

  International Conference on Software Engineering(ICSE), 2018

• Test-equivalence Analysis for Automatic Patch Generation   CCF-A

  Sergey Mechtaev, Xiang Gao, Shin Hwei Tan, Abhik Roychoudhury

  Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology ( TOSEM ), 2018

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Work before PhD

• Write-back aware shared last-level cache management for hybrid main memory   CCF-A

  Deshan Zhang, Lei Ju, Mengying Zhao, Xiang Gao, Zhiping Jia
  53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016

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