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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

  • 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'26–27, DL4C'24–26
  • Reviewer · ICLR'27, TSE, TOSEM, TKDE, TDSC, 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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