I am leading the CoPhi ("软件元智能" in Chinese) research group, under the DDST lab of SJTU. CoPhi stands for Code Philia, the word Philia stands for love and, in the meantime, is the prefix of Philosophy (originated from Philia Sophia, i.e., love for wisdom). The name, CoPhi, indicates that we devote ourselves to addressing the coding problems in CS and relevant areas, from a philosophical perspective.
The team focuses on the research on Software Engineering, AI, and Security, building techniques and tools to automate the work of programmers (with coding and model training needs) and security engineers. The group consists of members from both SJTU and NUS (collaboration with Prof. Dong Jin Song and Dr. Liu, Ruofan). I am honored to collaborate with or mentor the following researchers.
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Students
- Pei, Yunrui (SJTU)
- Liu, Chenyan (NUS)
- Liu, Yiming (SJTU)
- Teoh, Xiwen (SJTU/NUS)
- Ma, Murong (NUS)
- Zhao, Yifei (SJTU)
- Liu, Jiawei (SJTU)
- Zhang, Chenyang (SJTU)
- Chen, Yancan (SJTU)
- Chen, Jia (SJTU)
- Zhang, Duyu (SJTU)
Master Students
- Huang, Yuhuan (SJTU) (ASE'25, ISSTA'24)
- Chen, Guanjie (SJTU) (ISSTA'25)
- Kong, Weiyu (SJTU)
- Ren, Ruofei (SJTU) (ISSTA'25)
- Weng, Xinyi (SJTU)
- Shen, Zhuocheng (SJTU)
- Minh, Nguyen (SJTU)
- Pu, Ruikun (SJTU)
- Huang, Kewei (SJTU)
Undergraduate Students
- Chang, Jiaxin (SJTU) (ASE'25)
- Zhang, Zicong (SJTU)
- Sun, Xinyue (SJTU)
- Lit, Chio Wong, Napassorn (NUS)
- Tan, Phinehas (NUS)
- Qian, Defu (SJTU)
- He, Huayu (SJTU)
- Wang, Jinyu (SJTU)
- He, Zining (SJTU)
Selected CoPhi Alumni:
- Li, Siqi (NUS undergraduate student -> Tiktok, won NUS SoC Outstanding Undergraduate Research Prize for AY2024/25, with publication USENIX Sec'25, by 2025)
- Yeo, Shuen Yu (Silas) (NUS undergraduate student -> CSA, Singapore, won NUS SoC Outstanding Undergraduate Research Prize for AY2024/25, by 2025)
- Cai, Yufan (NUS PhD student -> NUS Research Fellow, with publication ISSTA'24, NeurIPS'23, by 2024)
- Liao, Yifan (NUS Master student -> HKUST PhD Student, with publication ASE'24, by 2024)
- Yang, Xianglin (NUS PhD student -> NUS Research Fellow, with publication FSE'23, AAAI'22, IJCAI'22, by 2023)
- Lee, Penn Han (NUS undergraduate student -> IMDA, Singapore, won IEEE Singapore Computing Society Prize for AY2022/23, with publication USENIX Sec'23, by 2023)
- Wu, Jinglian (NUS Master student -> AutoDesk, with publication NeurIPS'23, by 2022)
- Ng, Siang Hwee (NUS undergraduate -> DSTA, Singapore, won NUS SoC Outstanding Computing Project Prize for AY2021/22, with publication ISSTA'22, by 2022)
- Chan, Qing Zhou (NUS undergraduate student -> Squarepoint, Singapore, won SGTech-SoC Prize, 2000 SGD cash, with publication USENIX Sec'22, , by 2022)
- Ong, You Sheng Aaron (NUS undergraduate student, with publication ESEC/FSE'21, by 2021)
- Ng, Jun Yang (NUS undergraduate student -> MinDef, with publication USENIX Sec'21, by 2021)
- Xiu, Ziheng (NUS undergraduate student -> PayPal, with publication ISSTA'20, by 2020)
- Lu, Yiwen (ZJU undergraduate student -> Oracle, with publication USENIX Sec'21, by 2019)
- Si, Xuyuan (ZJU undergraduate student -> ZJU PhD student, with publication ESEC/FSE'21, by 2019)
- Xu, Zhenyang (ZJU undergraduate student -> University of Waterloo PhD student, by 2019)
- Zhang, Yinger (ZJU undergraduate student -> ZJU PhD student, by 2019)