Yao Wan

Yao Wan is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China. He leads the ONE Lab, focused on empowering machines to interact with the physical world through unified natural language interfaces (Language + X paradigm). He obtained his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University and has research visiting experience at Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Technology Sydney, and University of Illinois Chicago.

His research bridges Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, with core interests in:

• Natural Language Processing for code intelligence
• Large Language Model applications
• Multimodal learning across code, vision, and UI domains
• Program analysis and code generation
• Software engineering automation

His publications demonstrate strong focus on applying transformer-based models to software engineering challenges, with recent work expanding into multimodal applications. Research spans code model security, GUI generation, data visualization, and compiler understanding, predominantly using deep learning approaches.

Awards:

• IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award for SANER 2025 publication

He actively mentors students through the ONE Lab and serves on program committees for top conferences including ASE, ISSTA, and ICSE. He is seeking highly-motivated undergraduate researchers to join his team.

The ONE Lab conducts cutting-edge research at the intersection of programming languages and artificial intelligence, with ongoing projects in code intelligence, multimodal learning, and LLM applications for software engineering.