Yuntianyi Chen is a Ph.D. candidate of software engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include software testing and performance ranking of software configurations. He joined the Software Aurora (SORA) Lab in 2021. His advisor is Prof. Joshua Garcia.

Research Interests:

  • Software Testing
  • Software Configuration

📝 Publications

📖 Education

  • 2021.09 - Present, Ph.D. Candidate of Software Engineering
    • University of California, Irvine, USA
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology
    • Wuhan University, China

📚 Service

Committee

  • 2024.05, Program Committee Member, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), Artifacts Evaluation Track
  • 2024.03, Program Committee Member, 21st International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024), Artifacts Evaluation Track

Reviewer

  • 2024.05, External Reviewer, 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024), Technical Papers
  • 2024.05, Reviewer, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), Artifacts Evaluation Track
  • 2024.04, External Reviewer, 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Research Track
  • 2024.03, Reviewer, 21st International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024), Artifacts Evaluation Track
  • 2024.01, Reviewer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024)
  • 2023.10, Reviewer, 41st IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Contributed papers
  • 2023.10, External Reviewer, 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), Research Papers
  • 2022.12, Sub-reviewer, 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2023), Technical Track
  • 2019.11, Sub-reviewer, 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2020), Research Track

Volunteer

  • 2023.12, Student Volunteer, 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
  • 2023.05, Student Volunteer, Southern California Software Engineering Symposium (SuCSES 2023)
  • 2021.04, Organizer and Volunteer, The Workshop of Intelligent Real-time Methods and Technologies of Quality Improvement based on Co-programming

💬 Talks

  • 2019.11.22, The Annual Conference on Software Analysis, Testing and Evolution (SATE 2019). Hangzhou, China

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2023.11, NSF Student Travel Award
  • 2021.10, Chair’s Award, University of California, Irvine

💻 Work Experience

  • 2021.09 - Present, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Irvine
    • Conducting research in areas of Software Testing and Autonomous Driving System under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Garcia
  • 2021.09 - Present, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine
    • ICS 45J - Programming in Java
    • SWE 249P - Applied Data Analytics
    • SWE 247P - Applied Information Retrieval
    • SWE 266P - Software Security and Dependability
    • ICS 32 - Programming with Software Libraries
    • INF 122 - Software Design: Structure and Implementation
    • CS 113 / INF 125 - Computer Game Development
  • 2020.07 - 2021.07, Research Assistant, Wuhan University
    • Working with Prof. Jifeng Xuan at the Centre of Software Testing, Analysis and Reliability (CSTAR)
  • 2017.11 - 2020.06, Undergraduate Student Researcher, Wuhan University
    • Conducting research in areas of Performance Ranking, Software Configuration, and Transfer Learning under the supervision of Prof. Jifeng Xuan
  • 2017.09 - 2017.12, Teaching Assistant, Wuhan University
    • Advanced Software Engineering

📫 Contact

  • Name Pronunciation: Yuntianyi Chen (yoon-tyen-ee chuhn)
  • Email: yuntianc@uci.edu