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Yifan Zhao

Ph.D. Student
Peking University
zhaoyifan at stu dot pku dot edu dot cn


About Me

I am now working as a senior researcher at WeChat Pay AI Lab, Tencent. I graduated as a Ph.D. student at Peking University, supervised by Prof. Dan Hao and Prof. Lu Zhang. I was a visiting scholar in Monash University, supervised by Prof. Aldeida Aleti, during July 2024 to January 2025.

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  1. Do Advanced Language Models Eliminate the Need for Prompt Engineering in Software Engineering?
    Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Sixiang Ye, Zhihao Gong, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Qingyuan Liang, Dan Hao
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 (TOSEM).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  2. Directional Diffusion-Style Code Editing Pre-training
    Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Junhao Hu, Yifan Zhao, Yizhou Chen, Mingxuan Zhu, Guoqing Wang, Lu Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2025 (TSE).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  3. Bipartite-Grammar Aware Pretraining for XML-SQL Code Updating
    Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Guoqing Wang, Yizhou Chen, Lu Zhang, Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 (TOSEM).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  4. Automatically Learning a Precise Measurement for Fault Diagnosis Capability of Test Cases
    Yifan Zhao, Zeyu Sun, Guoqing Wang, Qingyuan Liang, Yakun Zhang, Yiling Lou, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 (TOSEM).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  5. Spotting Code Mutation for Predictive Mutation Testing
    Yifan Zhao, Yizhou Chen, Zeyu Sun, Qingyuan Liang, Guoqing Wang, Dan Hao
    Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024 (ASE'24).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  6. Mutual Learning-Based Framework for Enhancing Robustness of Code Models via Adversarial Training
    Yangsen Wang, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Junjie Chen, Dan Hao
    Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024 (ASE'24).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  7. Commit Artifact Preserving Build Prediction
    Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Qingyuan Liang, Dan Hao
    Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2024 (ISSTA'24).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A

  8. Synthesis-Based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration
    Yakun Zhang, Qihao Zhu, Jiwei Yan, Chen Liu, Wenjie Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
    Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2024 (ISSTA'24).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A

  9. Revisiting Machine Learning based Test Case Prioritization for Continuous Integration
    Yifan Zhao, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
    Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2023 (ICSME'23).
    PDF Code CCF-B, CORE Rank A

  10. Static type recommendation for Python
    Ke Sun, Yifan Zhao, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
    Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022 (ASE’22).
    PDF Code CCF-A, CORE Rank A*

  11. Test Case Prioritization Technique in Continuous Integration Based on Reinforcement Learning
    Yifan Zhao, Dan Hao
    Journal of Software (Chinese), 2022 (JoS).
    PDF Code Chinese CCF-A

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