I am a full professor (Chair for Software Engineering & AI) in Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany, and also an adjunct professor in Monash University, Australia. I obtained my PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. When pronouncing my first name, "Chun-yang" sounds like "train-young" which is exactly my job. My research focuses on Software Engineering, Deep Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. Specifically, I apply AI/ML, NLP and light-weight program analysis technology in the following directions:

• AI(LLM)-assisted automated mobile app development including requirement elicitation [ICSE'19a, TOSEM'21, TSE'22], UI design [CSCW'19, CSCW'20, ICSE'21a], UI code generation [ICSE'18, TOSEM'20, FSE'20], app GUI testing [CHI'22, ICSE'23a, ICSE'23b], usability [ICSE'20a, ASE'20, ASE'22], accessibility testing [ICSE'20b, TSE'21], and bug replay [ICSE'22, ICSE'23, ICSE'24].

• AI-empowered mining software repository including library/API migration [ASE'18a, TSE'19a], collaborative editing [CSCW'17, CSCW'18, CSCW'21], query reformulation [ASE'16, ICSE'21c], and thesaurus construction[ICSE'17, TSE'19].

• Robustness and security of deep learning and mobile apps including on-device model attack [ICSE'21-SEIP, TIFS'22], backdoor attack [ICSE'21d], phishing attack [TDSC'19] and deep learning defence [ASE'18, ISSTA'23].

• Large-Languagel Model (LLM) for software engineering and HCI including software testing [ICSE'23, ICSE'24a, ICSE'24b, TSE'24], bug replay [ISSTA'24, ICSE'24c, ICSE'24d], software accessibility [CHI'24], smart assistant development [UIST'24] and dataset construction [CHI'24] with all our LLM-relevant works in this page.

News

• 2024 Feb, I moved from Monash University, Australia to TUM, Germany. I am now recruiting staff to join our team.

• 2023 Dec, four full research papers are accepted at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'24).

• 2023 Aug, I received the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) (200 recipients per year in all disciplines in Australia).

• 2023 Mar, I received the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award (one recipient per year worldwide).

• I am always looking for self-motivated Postdoc, PhD students with full scholarship, and long-term visting scholars/students. For master and bachelor students/interns in TUM, we provide a list of thesis projects. If you are interested, please contact me.

Awards

• Best Paper Honorable Mention in CHI 2024
• Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from Australian Research Council
• ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award 2023
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE 2023
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE 2021
• Dean's Award for Research Impact (Economic and Social Impact) in Faculty of IT, Monash University.
• Facebook Research Award in Probability and Programming 2020
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE 2020
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ASE 2018
• Best Paper Award in SANER 2016
• Best Tool Demo in ASE 2016

Selected recent publications

1. [TSE-24] Software Testing with Large Language Model: Survey, Landscape, and Vision

   IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

   Junjie Wang, Yuchao Huang, Chunyang Chen, Zhe Liu, Song Wang, Qing Wang

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2. [UIST-24] GPTVoiceTasker: LLM-Powered Virtual Assistant for Smartphone

   ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

   Minh Duc Vu, Han Wang, Zhuang Li, Jieshan Chen, Shengdong Zhao, Zhenchang Xing, Chunyang Chen

   PDF · Code
3. [CHI-24] MUD: Towards a Large-Scale and Noise-Filtered UI Dataset for Modern Style UI Modeling

   ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

   Sidong Feng, Suyu Ma, Han Wang, David Kong, Chunyang Chen

   PDF · Dataset · Acceptance rate: 26.4% (1060/4009)
4. [CHI-24] Unblind Text Inputs: Predicting Hint-text of Text Input in Mobile Apps via LLM

   ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

   Zhe Liu, Chunyang Chen, Junjie Wang, Mengzhuo Chen, Boyu Wu, Yuekai Huang, Jun Hu, Qing Wang

   PDF · Demo · Code · Best Paper Honorable Mention · Acceptance rate: 26.4% (1060/4009)
5. [ICSE-24] Make LLM a Testing Expert: Bringing Human-like Interaction to Mobile GUI Testing via Functionality-aware Decisions

   The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

   Zhe Liu, Chunyang Chen, Junjie Wang, Mengzhuo Chen, Boyu Wu, Xing Che, Dandan Wang, Qing Wang

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6. [ICSE-24] Testing the Limits: Unusual Text Inputs Generation for Mobile App Crash Detection with Large Language Model

   The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

   Zhe Liu, Chunyang Chen, Junjie Wang, Mengzhuo Chen, Boyu Wu, Zhilin Tian, Yuekai Huang, Jun Hu, Qing Wang

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7. [ICSE-24] Prompting Is All Your Need: Automated Android Bug Replay with Large Language Models

   The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

   Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen

   PDF · Code · Acceptance rate: 6.6% (18/274)
See more papers in the full list, and our recently works about LLM can be seen in the seperate page.

Supervision

Postdoc

• Wenchao Gu (Jun.2024-), Technical University of Munich

PhD

• Yuetian Mao (Jun.2024-), Technical University of Munich
• Ludwig Felder (Jun.2024-) , Technical University of Munich
• Sidong Feng (May.2023-), Monash University
  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad 2024
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2023
• Yujin Huang (Dec.2022-), Monash University (Co-supervised with Xingliang Yuan)
  • Dean's Award for Excellence by a Graduate Research Student at Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity, 2023, Monash University
• Jian Gu (Nov.2022-), Monash University (Co-supervised with Aldeida Aleti)
• Han Wang (May.2021-), Monash University
  • Dean's Award for Excellence by a Graduate Research Student at Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity, 2022, Monash University
• Xin Zheng (Apr.2021-Aug.2024), Monash University (Co-supervised with Shirui Pan)
  • First job: Lecturer/Assistant Prof in Griffith University, Australia.
• Han Hu (Jan.2021-), Monash University
• Suyu Ma (Mar.2020-), Monash University (Co-supervised with John Grundy)
  • First job: Research Scientist in Data61, CSIRO.
• Jieshan Chen (Aug.2018- Feb.2022), Australian National University (Co-supervised with Zhenchang Xing)
  • First job: Research Scientist in Data61, CSIRO.
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2020

Visiting/Remote students

• Zhe Liu (Jan.2020- Jun.2023), Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • First job: Assistant Prof in Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention in CHI 2024
  • ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals Winner, 2023
• Yuhui Su (Jul.2020-Aug.2022), Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Tianming Zhao (Jan.2019-Dec.2020), Jilin University
• Kaibo Cao (Jul.2019-Dec.2020), Nanjing University
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2021
• Zhidan Yuan (Sep.2019-Dec.2019), Nantong University
• Dun Zhang (Jan.2019-Apr.2019), Nantong University

Master/Bachelor

• 2022 (Monash) Dustin Minh Duc Vu [project], Jason Siu [project]
• 2021 (Monash) Ruiqi Dong [project], Minh Nguyen [project], An-Chieh Chang [project]
• 2020-2021 (Monash) Chao Wu [project], Yujin Huang [project], Ishan Joshi [project], Xinyan Li [project]
• 2018~2019 (ANU) Chen Xi [project], Kai Xi [project], Wang Ruiqi [project], Wang Yuyang [project], Feng Sidong [project]
• 2018 (ANU) Wang Xu [project], Qiu Zhuoqi [project], Huang Yi [project], Yang Renfei [project], Li Yuchen [project], Li Zhiheng [project]
• 2017~2018 (NTU) Chow Wei Jun Bernard [project], Koh Hong Da [project], Lin Tian [project]
• 2017 (ANU) Wang Qiancheng [project], Cao Jixuan [project], Yuan Tonghui [project]
• 2016~2017 (NTU) Kent Ong Long Xiong [project], Tee Li Yin [project], Toh Gao Han [project], Linus Lim Ji Wei [project]
• 2015~2016 (NTU) Teong Ke Ming [project], Lee Yong Ming Leon [project], Wang Ximing [project]

Teaching

• 2024 Summer | Lecturer | CITHN4004-Foundations and Application of Generative AI
• 2024 Summer | Lecturer | INHN0015-Seminar Automated Mobile App Testing
• 2023 S1 | Lecturer & Chief examiner | FIT3170-Software Engineering Practice
• 2022 FY | Lecturer & Chief examiner | FIT3170-Software Engineering Practice
• 2021 FY | Lecturer & Chief examiner | FIT3170-Software Engineering Practice
• 2020 S1 | Lecturer & Chief examiner | FIT9136-Algorithms and Programming Foundations in Python
• 2019 S1 | Lecturer & Chief examiner | FIT9133-Programming Foundations in Python
• 2017 Fall | Tutorial advisor | CZ3003-Software Systems Analysis & Design
• 2017 Spring | Lab assistant | CZ3003-Software Systems Analysis & Design
• 2016 Fall | Lab assistant | CE2006-Software Engineering
• 2016 Spring | Lab assistant | CZ2002-Objective Oriented Design & Programming
• 2015 Fall | Lab assistant | CZ3003-Software System Analysis & Design

Service

Organisation

• Schedule Co-Chair: 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-23)
• Volunteer Co-Chair: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-21)
• Keynote at Doctoral Symposium: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME-21)
• Student Research Competition Co-Chair: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-20)
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Automated Software Engineering for Mobile Applications, Springer Automated Software Engineering

Program Committee or Associate Chair

• International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-25,24,23)
• ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA-24)
• ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-24)
• IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE-24)
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW-24)
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-24,23,22)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23,22,21)
• The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP-22)
• The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME-22,21,20,18)
• ACM Student Research Competition (SRC-22,21)
• ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST-21) (Reviewer)
• The Mining Software Repositories (MSR-23,22,21,20,19)
• Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML-21,20)
• International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE-21,20)
• IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, Replication and Negative Results Track (ICPC-21)
• International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Anlaysis in Software Engineering (PROMISE-21)
• IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER-23,20,19)
• Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC-20)
• Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware-20,21,22)
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE tool-19)

Journal Reviewer

• Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI)
• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TRel)
• Springer Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
• Springet Automated Software Engineering (AUSE)
• Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
• IEEE Software
• Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI)