Lili Wei

Lili Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University's Faculty of Engineering. She specializes in software engineering research with a focus on Android applications, smart contracts, and IoT software. Prior to joining McGill, she completed her PhD at HKUST under Prof. S.C. Cheung and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the CASTLE group at HKUST, receiving the Hong Kong Research Grant Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Her research interests center on software analysis, testing, and mining code repositories, particularly addressing compatibility issues in Android applications, security vulnerabilities in smart contracts, and testing methodologies for mobile software. She has made significant contributions to understanding and solving fragmentation-induced compatibility issues in Android apps, which has been a persistent challenge for developers due to the diverse ecosystem of Android devices and OS versions.

Dr. Wei's publication record shows a consistent trajectory of impactful research in top software engineering venues including ASE, ICSE, FSE, ISSTA, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Her recent work has expanded into blockchain security with a focus on front-running vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Her research combines empirical studies with practical tool development to address real-world software engineering challenges.

• Peter Silvester Faculty Research Award in Electrical & Computer Engineering (McGill University)
• Distinguished Reviewer (ASE 2022)
• Hong Kong RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (2020)
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award (ICSE 2019)
• Google PhD Fellowship (in Mobile Computing, 2018)
• Microsoft Research Asia PhD Fellowship (2018)
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ASE 2016)

Dr. Wei has been actively involved in the academic community, serving on program committees for major software engineering conferences including ICSE, ASE, FSE, ISSTA, and MOBILESoft. She has held leadership roles such as Tutorials Track Chair for ASE 2023, PC Chair for MOBILESoft 2023, and is currently seeking PhD students interested in software engineering research, particularly in program analysis, test generation, and mobile computing. Her teaching at McGill includes ECSE 250: Fundamentals of Software Development, ECSE 321: Introduction to Software Engineering, and ECSE 688: Automated Software Testing and Analysis.