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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.

Feel free to reach out to me if you are also interested in exploring these topics!

Recruiting

I am recruiting self-motivated PhD/MPhil students and Research Assistants (RAs) to join my group.

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Awards

  • 2026ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ×3 (ICSE 2026 ×2, ISSTA 2024)
  • 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

  • PC Member (Conference) · AAAI'27, SANER'27, MSR'24–26 (Data and Tool Showcase Track), QUATIC'25, MSR'25 (Junior PC), ISSTA'24 (Artifact Evaluation)
  • PC Member (Workshop) · AGENT'26, DL4C'24–25
  • Reviewer · TSE, TOSEM, TKDE, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, IST, SCP
  • Social Media Co-Chair · FORGE'25

Publications

2026
2025
2024
TSE
Fusing Code Searchers

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

2023
2022
2020
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