Prof. Dr. Chunyang Chen
Academic Career and Research Areas
Prof. Chen obtained his bachelor at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China and PhD at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He then started to work as a lecturer and tenured senior lecturer at Monash University, Australia from 2018 to 2024. In 2024, Prof. Chen was appointed to the professorship for Software Engineering & AI at TUM.
Prof Chen’s field of research is the area of the intersection of software engineering, human-computer interaction, software security and AI. Specifically, he applies data-driven methods including AI/ML, NLP and light-weight program analysis technology in the following directions:
1) AI/LLM-assisted automated mobile app development.
2) AI-empowered mining software repository.
3) Security of deep learning and mobile apps.
Awards
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from Australian Research Council (2023)
- ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award (2023)
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE (2023)
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE (2021)
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE (2020)
Key Publications
Feng S, Chen C. Prompting Is All Your Need: Automated Android Bug Replay with Large Language Models. In IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024.
AbstractFeng S, Xie M, Chen C. Efficiency Matters: Speeding Up Automated Testing with GUI Rendering Inference. In IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023, pp. 906-918.
AbstractCao K, Chen C, Baltes S, Treude C, Chen X. Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow. In2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2021, pp. 1273-1285.
AbstractChen J, Chen C, Xing Z, Xu X, Zhu L, Li G, Wang J. Unblind Your Apps: Predicting Natural-Language Labels for Mobile GUI Components by Deep Learning. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering 2020, pp. 322-334.
Chen C, Su T, Meng G, Xing Z, Liu Y. From UI Design Image to GUI Skeleton: A Neural Machine Translator to Bootstrap Mobile GUI Implementation. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering 2018, pp. 665-676.
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