Huaien Zhang   张怀恩 Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computing The Hong Kong Polytecnic University Hong Kong E-mail: huaien.zhang[AT]connect.polyu.hk [Twitter][Github]

Biography

Hello, I'm Huaien Zhang. I am a PhD candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where I was advised by Prof. Yu Pei and Prof. Shin Hwei Tan. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Yuqun Zhang.

I am interested in intelligent software engineering and programming languages. My research focuses on applying techniques such as program analysis, fuzzing, and large language model to enhance the security and reliability of software systems.

Research Interests

• Program Analysis and Verification
• Automated Testing and Fuzzing
• SE4AI, AI4SE

Publications

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• Xiaowen Zhang, Huaien Zhang^*, and Shin Hwei Tan
  Reusing Symbolic Code and Test for Redesigned Projects
  Under Review
  
• Haibo Wang, Zhuolin Xu, Huaien Zhang^*, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Shin Hwei Tan
  An Empirical Study of Refactoring Engine Bugs
  TOSEM 2025 (CCF-A): ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  Under Revision
  
• Huaien Zhang, Yu Pei, Shuyun Liang, Zezhong Xing, and Shin Hwei Tan
  Characterizing and Detecting Program Representation Faults of Static Analysis Frameworks
  ISSTA 2024 (CCF-A): The 33rd ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  Directly accepted in the second round, accept rate: 16.6%
  [PDF]
• Huaien Zhang, Yu Pei, Shuyun Liang, and Shin Hwei Tan
  Understanding and Detecting Annotation-Induced Faults of Static Analyzers
  FSE 2024 (CCF-A): The 32st ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  Directly accepted without revision, accept rate: 11.6%
  [PDF]
• Huaien Zhang, Yu Pei, Junjie Chen, and Shin Hwei Tan
  Statfier: Automated Testing of Static Analyzers via Semantic-preserving Program Transformations
  ESEC/FSE 2023 (CCF-A): The 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  [PDF]
• Ying Li, Haibo Wang, Huaien Zhang, and Shin Hwei Tan
  Classifying Code Comments via Pre-trained Programming Language Model
  NLBSE 2023: IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering
  [PDF]

Experiences

• Research Intern: Quality Assurance Team, Douyin Group, ByteDance
  Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
• Research Assistant: Southern University of Science and Technology
  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Services

• Organization Committee Member
  • FSE 2026, Web Chair
• Program Committee Member
  • ACM CCS 2025 AE, ICSE 2025 AE, ACM CCS 2024 AE, ICSME 2024 AE
• Reviewer
  • TOSEM, IoT-J
• External Reviewer
  • ICSE 2026, ICSE 2025, ICSE 2024, ISSTA 2024, FSE 2023, ASE 2023, ISSTA 2023, ICSE 2022, ASE 2022

Grants

• ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Grant, Nov 2024
• ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Grant, Jul 2024
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Top Conference Travel Grant, Jul 2024
• Postgraduate Scholarship, 2021 - 2025

Invited Talks

• Dagstuhl Seminar: Effective Fault Detection for Static Analyzers via Autoamted Testing, 2025.06
• Shandong University: Improving the Reliability of Program Analyzers via Automated Testing, 2024.11

Teaching

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • COMP3211 Software Engineering ➡️ (2021 - 2022 Semester, Autumn)
  • COMP2421 Computer Organization ➡️ (2021 - 2022 Semester, Spring)
  • COMP3211 Software Engineering ➡️ (2022 - 2023 Semester, Autumn)
  • COMP2421 Computer Organization ➡️ (2022 - 2023 Semester, Spring)
• Fudan University
  • Introduction to Computer System ➡️ (2020 - 2021 Semester, Autumn)