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

Biography

Hey, my name is Huaien Zhang. I am a 4th-year CS PhD Candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University advised by Prof. Yu Pei and Prof. Shin Hwei Tan. I also work closely with Prof. Yuqun Zhang.

I am interested in Software Engineering and Programming Language. I foucs on applying various techniques such as program analysis, fuzzing, and deep learning to improve the software security and system reliability.

Research Interests

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

Publications

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• 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
  • ICSE 2025 AE, ACM CCS 2024 AE, ICSME 2024 AE, IoT-J
• Reviewer/External Reviewer
  • ICSE 2026, ICSE 2025, ICSE 2024, ISSTA 2024, FSE 2023, ASE 2023, ISSTA 2023, ICSE 2022, ASE 2022, TOSEM 2021.
  • QRS 2024, ISSRE 2023, EMSE 2023, HPDC 2021, ICS 2021, LCTES 2021

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

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)