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

Research Interests:

• Autonomous Driving System
• Software Configuration
• Automated Software Testing

📖 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

📝 Publications

• [FSE 2024] Misconfiguration Software Testing for Failure Emergence in Autonomous Driving Systems, Yuntianyi Chen, Yuqi Huai, Shilong Li, Changnam Hong, Joshua Garcia. Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. 1, FSE (2024), 1913–1936.

• [TSE 2023] scenoRITA: Generating Diverse, Fully Mutable, Test Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicle Planning, Yuqi Huai, Sumaya Almanee, Yuntianyi Chen, Xiafa Wu, Qi Alfred Chen, Joshua Garcia. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 49, 10 (2023), 4656–4676.

• [ICSE 2023] Doppelgänger Test Generation for Revealing Bugs in Autonomous Driving Software, Yuqi Huai, Yuntianyi Chen, Sumaya Almanee, Tuan Ngo, Xiang Liao, Ziwen Wan, Qi Alfred Chen, Joshua Garcia. In 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 14-20, 2023. IEEE, 2591–2603.

• [APSEC 2019] Multi-Objective Configuration Sampling for Performance Ranking in Configurable Systems, Yongfeng Gu, Yuntianyi Chen, Xiangyang Jia, Jifeng Xuan. In 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2019, Putrajaya, Malaysia, December 2-5, 2019. IEEE, 150–157.

• [SOFL+MSVL 2019] Regression Models for Performance Ranking of Configurable Systems: A Comparative Study, Yuntianyi Chen, Yongfeng Gu, Lulu He, Jifeng Xuan. In Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method - 9th International Workshop, SOFL+MSVL 2019, Shenzhen, China, November 5, 2019. Springer, 243–258.

📚 Services

Committee

• 2024.09, Web & Publicity Chair, 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems (SE4ADS 2025)
• 2024.09, Program Committee Member, 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Artifacts Evaluation Track
• 2024.05, Program Committee Member, 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

• 2024.07, Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Full Length Technical Journal Paper
• 2024.05, External Reviewer, 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024), Technical Papers
• 2024.05, Reviewer, 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 (IEEE RA-L), Journal Paper
• 2023.10, Delegate 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, Paper Presentation, “Regression Models for Performance Ranking of Configurable Systems: A Comparative Study” at the Annual Conference on Software Analysis, Testing and Evolution (SATE 2019), Hangzhou, China

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024, ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Award
• 2023, NSF Student Travel Award
• 2021, Chair’s Award, University of California, Irvine
• 2017-2018, 2016-2017, and 2018-2019, Scholarship for Outstanding Students (Top 10%)
• 2018, Chinese Undergraduate Computer Design Contest (Regional Level, Second Prize)

💻 Work Experiences

• 2021.09 - Present, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Irvine
  • Conducting research in areas of Autonomous Driving System and Automated Software Testing under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Garcia
• 2021.09 - Present, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine
  • SWE 241P - Applied Data Structures and Algorithms
  • SWE 243P - Database Programming
  • SWE 247P - Applied Information Retrieval
  • SWE 249P - Applied Data Analytics
  • SWE 266P - Software Security and Dependability
  • ICS 32 - Programming with Software Libraries
  • ICS 45J - Programming in Java
  • 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 Lab)
• 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)
• Have a look at my CV here!
• Email: yuntianc@uci.edu