Yuqun Zhang![]()
Associate Professor
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We are hiring research assistant professors and PostDocs. We are also looking for PhD students with strong academic background in Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Programming Languages, or Formal Methods. Please send me an email (with your CV).
Biography
Yuqun Zhang is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. Dr. Zhang got his B.S. in Communication Engineering from Tianjin University (China), and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester with Prof. Wendi Heinzelman. He got his Ph.D. from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was very fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Dewayne Perry.
News
- [Pinned] We have released SRepair, a powerful LLM-based automated program repairer which fixes 300 out of 522 Defects4J single-function bugs with $0.029 each! SRepair also sucessfully fixes 32 multi-function bugs for the first time ever in business!
- [Pinned] We have released LLM4Decompile, the very first open-source LLM-based Decompiler which sucessfully decompiles 21% projects in the HumanEval benchmark.
One research paper on resolving repository-level Rust issues via LLM agent is accepted to ICSE 2026. Congratulations to Jiahong, Wenxiao, and Xihua!
I am hornored to receive the IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Service Award (2025)!
Our ICSE 2025 paper "Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: How do Assisting Exploration Strategies Facilitate Grey-box Fuzzing?" won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
One research paper on LLM-based decompilation benchmark is accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Hanzhuo and all!
Two research papers on code embedding model and grammar-based code representation are accepted to ACL 2025/ACL Findings 2025 respectively. Congratulations to Zuchen and Qingyuan!
One research paper on MLIR fuzzing is accepted to FSE 2025. Congratulations to Weiyuan!
One research paper on LLM-based code generation is accepted to TOSEM. Congratulations to Hanzhuo and Qi!
- Congratulations to Jiahong on winning the 2024 National Scholarship Award!
- One research paper on surveying how LLMs advance software defect detection and repair is accepted to JoS (in Chinese). Congratulations to Jiahong!
- One research paper on how assisting strategies advance fuzzing is accepted to ICSE 2025. Congratulations to Mingyuan and Jiahong!
- One research paper on developing LLM for Decompilation is accepted to EMNLP 2024. Congratulations to Hanzhuo!
- One research paper on social media natural language understanding is accepted to TNNLS. Congratulations to Hanzhuo!
- One research paper on software component analysis is accepted to ICSE'24. Congratulations to Ling!