Yepang Liu

Yepang Liu is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He leads the Software Quality Lab and directs the Trustworthy Software Research Center under the Research Institute of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. His academic journey includes a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Nanjing University (2010) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2015, followed by postdoctoral research at HKUST's CASTLE Lab and Cybersecurity Lab (2015–2018).

Research interests focus on

• Software Testing and Analysis
• Empirical Software Engineering
• AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE)
• Trustworthy AI
• Mobile Computing
• Software Security

Current projects explore automated testing for emerging technologies like HarmonyOS and extended reality (XR), leveraging large language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning.

Awarded thrice with ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (ICSE 2021, ASE 2016, ICSE 2014) and a Platinum Level Research Artifacts Honor (FSE 2016), Liu has also received teaching accolades, including SUSTech's Junior Faculty of the Year (2021) and the Top-10 Most Popular Instructor Among 2024 Graduates. His work is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, and industry partnerships.