About Me

I am currently pursuing my Master’s degree in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), advised by Prof. Yao Wan. I am a member of the CGCL laboratory led by Prof. Hai Jin.

I am actively seeking a PhD position in SE/ML/HCI for 2025 fall.
You’re welcome to download my CV here and Transcript here. Contact: wuyang991107@gmail.com

Research Interests

My primary research interest lies in the intersection between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, including source code generation and summarization, with a specific focus on the universality of natural language, programming language, and data visualizations with AI tools.

News

• [2024-05-14] Awarded the Student Support Scholarship at SIGMOD 2024. Traveling to Chile to present my paper.
• [2024-11-01] Arrived at ETH Zurich for a visit to the Peach Lab.

Publication

Automated Data Visualization from Natural Language via Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study
Yang Wu, Yao Wan*, Hongyu Zhang, Yulei Sui, Wucai Wei, Wei Zhao, Guandong Xu, Hai Jin
SIGMOD 2024. ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
PDF | CCF-A | Arxiv

Graph Neural Networks for Vulnerability Detection - A Counterfactual Explanation
Zhaoyang Chu, Yao Wan*, Qian Li, Yang Wu, Hongyu Zhang, Yulei Sui, Guandong Xu, Hai Jin
ISSTA 2024. The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
PDF | CCF-A | Arxiv

Project

• Exploring LLMs as Evaluator for Code Summarization First Author, Submitted to ICSE 2025.

• Interactive Data Visualization Through Sign Language First Author after advisor, Submitted to CHI 2025.

Internships

• June 2024 - September 2024, ETH Zurich, in the Programming, Education, and Computer-Human Interaction Lab (PEACH Lab), supervised by Prof. April Yi Wang.

Honors

• National Scholarship (2023-2024)
• Excellent Student Cadre (2022-2023)
• First-class Scholarship for Postgraduates (2022-2023)
• Outstanding Undergraduate (2022)
• National Inspirational Scholarship (2018-2021)

Hobbies

• Reading, hiking.