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About

Currently, I'm a Research Staff at Singapore Management University, and I will join the Data Science and Analytics (DSA) Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as an Assistant Professor in January 2027, where I will lead the MAYU Lab.

I received my PhD from Singapore Management University, supervised by Prof. David Lo, and I was fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Li Li and Prof. Xiaoning Du. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Tongji University, and worked as a Research Assistant at ShanghaiTech University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

My research lies at the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence. My mission is to engineer a software ecosystem natively designed for both human developers and AI coders, aiming to maximize the productivity of both.

I am recruiting self-motivated PhD/MPhil students and Research Assistants (RAs) to join my group. If you are interested, please email me with your CV.

Awards

  • 2026ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ×3 (ICSE 2026 ×2, ISSTA 2024)
  • 2026Cover feature of Communications of the ACM (Vol. 69, No. 10)
  • 2026SMU SCIS Dean's List Award ×2 (2025, 2026)
  • 2026SMU SCIS Research Excellence Award (Tier 1) ×2 (2025, 2026)
  • 2024ByteDance Scholarship (15 of 400+ applicants from all areas of computer science)
  • 2022Nomination for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE 2022)
  • 2020Merit Student in Tongji University
  • 2018Shanghai Outstanding Graduate

Services

Reviewing

202645manuscripts11 venues
  • TSE
  • TOSEM
  • TDSC
  • EMSE
  • IST
  • AAAI'27
  • ICLR'27
  • SANER'27
  • MSR'26 Data & Tool
  • AGENT'26
  • DL4C'26
202517manuscripts10 venues
  • TSE
  • TOSEM
  • TKDE
  • SCP
  • Neural Networks
  • Neurocomputing
  • MSR'25
  • MSR'25 Data & Tool
  • QUATIC'25
  • DL4C'25
2023–2410manuscripts4 venues
  • TSE
  • MSR'24 Data & Tool
  • ISSTA'24 Artifact Evaluation
  • DL4C'24

Organizing

2025
Social Media Co-Chair

FORGE'25, ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering

Publications

TSE
Fusing Code Searchers

Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu, Li Li, Tegawendé F Bissyandé, Xiaoguang Mao

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