Overview
Background
Dr. Guowei Yang is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in software engineering, cyber security, programming languages, formal methods, and machine learning, with a focus on improving software reliability and security. Prior to joining UQ in 2021, he was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, USA in 2013. To find out more details please check his homepage: https://guoweiyang.github.io.
Multiple scholarships are available! I am looking for highly motivated students (including PhDs, Masters, undergraduates), postdocs, and visitors to join my research group. If you are interested and have background in software engineering, programming languages, formal methods, and/or AI, please send an email with your CV to guowei.yang@uq.edu.au. The University of Queensland is ranked in the top 50 and top 100 globally according to major ranking systems, including U.S. News (36), QS (43), ARWU (51), and THE (53).
Availability
- Dr Guowei Yang is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Masters (Research) of Computer Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Doctor of Philosophy of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Research interests
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Software engineering
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Cyber security
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Programming languages
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Formal methods
Works
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2024
Journal Article
An empirical study on compatibility issues in Android API field evolution
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2024). An empirical study on compatibility issues in Android API field evolution. Information and Software Technology, 175 107530, 107530. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107530
2024
Conference Publication
MTD in plain sight: hiding network behavior in moving target defenses
Moghaddam, Tina, Yang, Guowei, Thapa, Chandra, Camtepe, Seyit and Kim, Dan Dongseong (2024). MTD in plain sight: hiding network behavior in moving target defenses. 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 24-27 June 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/dsn-s60304.2024.00022
2024
Journal Article
Compatible Branch Coverage Driven Symbolic Execution for Efficient Bug Finding
Yi, Qiuping, Yu, Yifan and Yang, Guowei (2024). Compatible Branch Coverage Driven Symbolic Execution for Efficient Bug Finding. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8 (PLDI) 213, 1633-1655. doi: 10.1145/3656443
2024
Conference Publication
APICIA: An API Change Impact Analyzer for Android Apps
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru, Rouijel, Jihan, Khan, Mujahid and Yang, Guowei (2024). APICIA: An API Change Impact Analyzer for Android Apps. IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 - 20 April 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3639478.3640041
2024
Conference Publication
Concrete constraint guided symbolic execution
Sun, Yue, Yang, Guowei, Lv, Shichao, Li, Zhi and Sun, Limin (2024). Concrete constraint guided symbolic execution. ICSE '24: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 - 20 April 2024. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1145/3597503.3639078
2023
Conference Publication
SJFuzz: seed and mutator scheduling for JVM fuzzing
Wu, Mingyuan, Ouyang, Yicheng, Lu, Minghai, Chen, Junjie, Zhao, Yingquan, Cui, Heming, Yang, Guowei and Zhang, Yuqun (2023). SJFuzz: seed and mutator scheduling for JVM fuzzing. 31st ACM Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference / Symposium on the Foundations-of-Software-Engineering (ESEC/FSE), San Francisco, CA USA, 3-9 December 2023. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3611643.3616277
2023
Conference Publication
SCPatcher: mining crowd security discussions to enrich secure coding practices
Jiang, Ziyou, Shi, Lin, Yang, Guowei and Wang, Qing (2023). SCPatcher: mining crowd security discussions to enrich secure coding practices. 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Echternach, Luxembourg, 11-15 September 2023. Los Alamitos, CA USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ase56229.2023.00040
2023
Conference Publication
POSTER: Toward Intelligent Cyber Attacks for Moving Target Defense Techniques in Software-Defined Networking
Moghaddam, Tina, Yang, Guowei, Thapa, Chandra, Camtepe, Seyit and Kim, Dan Dongseong (2023). POSTER: Toward Intelligent Cyber Attacks for Moving Target Defense Techniques in Software-Defined Networking. 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3579856.3592825
2023
Journal Article
Detecting android API compatibility issues with API differences
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2023). Detecting android API compatibility issues with API differences. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49 (7), 3857-3871. doi: 10.1109/tse.2023.3274153
2023
Journal Article
Analyzing the impact of API changes on Android apps
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2023). Analyzing the impact of API changes on Android apps. Journal of Systems and Software, 200 111664, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.111664
2023
Conference Publication
Intelligent constraint classification for symbolic execution
Wen, Junye, Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru, Yan, Yan and Yang, Guowei (2023). Intelligent constraint classification for symbolic execution. 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Macao, Peoples Republic of China, 21-24 March 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/saner56733.2023.00023
2022
Conference Publication
Feedback-driven incremental symbolic execution
Yi, Qiuping and Yang, Guowei (2022). Feedback-driven incremental symbolic execution. 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Charlotte, NC USA, 31 October-3 November 2022. Los Alamitos, CA USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00055
2022
Conference Publication
Android API field evolution and its induced compatibility issues
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2022). Android API field evolution and its induced compatibility issues. 16th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Helsinki, Finland, 19-23 September 2022. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3544902.3546242
2022
Conference Publication
ACID: an API compatibility issue detector for Android apps
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2022). ACID: an API compatibility issue detector for Android apps. 44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 22-27 May 2022. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICSE-Companion55297.2022.9793733
2022
Conference Publication
Evaluating and improving neural program-smoothing-based fuzzing
Wu, Mingyuan, Jiang, Ling, Xiang, Jiahong, Zhang, Yuqun, Yang, Guowei, Ma, Huixin, Nie, Sen, Wu, Shi, Cui, Heming and Zhang, Lingming (2022). Evaluating and improving neural program-smoothing-based fuzzing. ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 22-27 May 2022. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1145/3510003.3510089
2021
Conference Publication
API change impact analysis for android apps
Mahmud, Tarek, Khan, Mujahid, Rouijel, Jihan, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2021). API change impact analysis for android apps. 45th Annual International IEEE-Computer-Society Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Virtual, 12-16 July 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC51774.2021.00122
2021
Conference Publication
Android compatibility issue detection using API differences
Mahmud, Tarek, Che, Meiru and Yang, Guowei (2021). Android compatibility issue detection using API differences. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Honolulu, HI USA, 9-12 March 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/saner50967.2021.00051
2021
Conference Publication
Audio-visual event localization via recursive fusion by joint co-attention
Duan, Bin, Tang, Hao, Wang, Wei, Zong, Ziliang, Yang, Guowei and Yan, Yan (2021). Audio-visual event localization via recursive fusion by joint co-attention. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI, United States, 3-8 January 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/WACV48630.2021.00406
2021
Journal Article
An IoT edge computing framework using Cordova Accessor Host
Ngu, Anne H. H., Eyitayo, Jesuloluwa, Yang, Guowei, Campbell, Colin, Sheng, Quan Z. and Ni, Jianyuan (2021). An IoT edge computing framework using Cordova Accessor Host. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9 (1), 671-683. doi: 10.1109/jiot.2021.3086043
2020
Journal Article
Message from TAIC PART Chairs
Abreu, Rui, Amorim, Marcelod and Yang, Guowei (2020). Message from TAIC PART Chairs. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2020 9156052, xxiii-xxiii. doi: 10.1109/ICSTW50294.2020.00014
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Guowei Yang is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Automated Testing of Deep Learning Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim, Dr Naipeng Dong
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Doctor Philosophy
Continuous Code Analysis for Rapidly Evolving Software
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mark Utting, Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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Master Philosophy
Optimizing Software Development: Hierarchical Formal Specification Integration for Enhanced Unit Testing and Agile Synergy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mark Utting
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Doctor Philosophy
Advanced Moving Target Defence against AI based Cyber Attacks
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim
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