Jinqiu Yang
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University
jinqiu.yang at concordia.ca @Google Scholar @DBLP
Research interests:
software reliability, quality assurance of machine learning systems including autonomous vehicles, software testing, automated program repair, text analytics of software artifacts, and mining software repositories, and in the broad area of software engineering.
I am looking for a few students (funding available for Master's and PhD)
TSE-24
Tracking the Evolution of Static Code Warnings: the State-of-the-Art and a Better Approach.
Junjie Li and Jinqiu Yang.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ICSE-24
Demystifying and Detecting Misuses of Deep Learning APIs.
Moshi Wei, Nima Shiri Harzevili, Yuekai Huang, Jinqiu Yang, Junjie Wang and Song Wang.
In the proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering
ICSE-24
A First Look at the Inheritance-Induced Redundant Test Execution.
Dong Jae Kim, Jinqiu Yang, and Tse-Hsun Chen.
In the proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering
ICSE-24
Benchmarking the Security Aspect of Large Language Model-Based Code Generation.
Cheng Cheng and Jinqiu Yang.
In the proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (LLM4Code Workshop)
FORGE-24
Fine Tuning Large Language Model for Secure Code Generation.
Junjie Li, Aseem Sangalay, Cheng Cheng, Yuan Tian and Jinqiu Yang.
In the proceedings of the The special event of AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE 2024) in ICSE 2024
ICSME-23
StaticTracker: A Diff Tool for Static Code Warnings has been accepted.
Junjie Li and Jinqiu Yang.
In the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
Recent Service
Program Committee and Organizing Committee
2021 - present: EMSE Editorial Board
2025: ICSE technical track PC
2024: FSE technical track PC, FSE tool demo PC, SANER technical track PC, MSR technical track PC
2023: SANER technical track PC, SANER RENE track co-chair
2022: MSR technical track, ICPC technical track, ICSME technical track, ICSE poster track, iMLSE
2021: ICPC Tool Demo PC,
ICPC Education Track PC,
MSR Hackthon PC, IBF PC,
FSE industry track PC,
FSE IVR track PC,
ASE late breaking PC,
ICSME PC
SCAM PC
Journal Referee: IEEE Transactions on Sofware Engineering , The Journal of Empirical of Software Engineering (EMSE) , ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM Computing Survey, ASE Journal, Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Funding (PI unless noted otherwise)
NOVA – FRQNT-NSERC PROGRAM , 2024 - 2027, PI (Co-PIs: Lili Wei and Yuan Tian )
Volt-Age Seed Grant , 2024 - 2026, Co-PI
Gina Cody Research and Innovation Fellowship , 2024 - 2026, PI
NSERC CREATE Program SE4AI , 2021 - 2026, Co-PI
Concordia University Facility Optimization Program, 2020
Mitacs Accelerate, 2020 - 2023
NSERC Discovery Grant, 2019 - 2025
NSERC ECR Supplement, 2019
Concordia University Startup Grant, 2018 - 2021
Professional Experience
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Concordia University (2018 – 2023 )
IBM Watson Research Lab. (2016.05 – 2016.08 ) I worked with API Harmony team to extract Web API specifications by mining documentation.
IBM CAS. (2014 – 2017 ) I worked with IBM developers to improve users’ adaption of security warnings of AppScan Source .
Education
PhD and MASc from University of Waterloo, supervised by Prof. Lin Tan
B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University