About Me

I will be in Santiago, Chile in June for SIGMOD 2024!

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 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, source code and data visualizations with AI tools.

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
• On-going, First Author, Submitted to ICSE 2025.
• 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

Honors

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

Hobbies

• Reading, hiking.