Xiaoyu Zhang

Xiaoyu Zhang

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Hello, my name is Xiaoyu Zhang. I have received my Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in June 2025, where I studied under Prof. Chao Shen. I am now a research fellow in Prof. Yang Liu's team at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My research interests include Software Engineering, Large Language Models, and AI Security/Safety.

Looking for undergraduate or graduate students with common research interests to collaborate with. 🎉

News

2025.10 Our Paper is accepted to TOSEM
2025.06 Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation at Xi'an Jiaotong University
2025.01 Our Paper is accepted to ACL 2025

Recent Publications

2025

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation

Xiaoyu Zhang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Qingshuang Bao, Weipeng Jiang, Qian Wang, Chao Shen, Yang Liu

ACL 2025

2025

JailGuard: A Universal Detection Framework for Prompt-based Attacks on LLM Systems

Xiaoyu Zhang, Cen Zhang, Tianlin Li, Yihao Huang, Xiaojun Jia, Ming Hu, Jie Zhang, Yang Liu, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen

TOSEM 2025

2025

CITADEL: Context Similarity Based Deep Learning Framework Bug Finding

Xiaoyu Zhang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Shiwei Wang, Chao Shen

TOSEM 2025

2025

Deep Learning Library Testing: Definition, Methods and Challenges

Xiaoyu Zhang, Weipeng Jiang, Chao Shen, Qi Li, Qian Wang, Chenhao Lin, Xiaohong Guan

CSUR 2025

2025

STAFF: Speculative Coreset Selection for Task-Specific Fine-tuning

Xiaoyu Zhang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen, Tianlin Li, Weipeng Jiang, Yang Liu

ICLR 2025

2024

DREAM: Debugging and Repairing AutoML Pipelines

Xiaoyu Zhang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Xiaohong Guan, Chao Shen

TOSEM 2024

2024

An Automated Monitoring and Repairing System for DNN Training

Xiaoyu Zhang, Chao Shen, Shiqing Ma, Juan Zhai, Chenhao Lin

TDSC 2024

2024

Efficient DNN-Powered Software with Fair Sparse Models

Xuanqi Gao, Weipeng Jiang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang, Chao Shen

ISSTA 2024

2024

COSTELLO: Contrastive Testing for Embedding-Based Large Language Model as a Service Embeddings

Weipeng Jiang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang, Chao Shen

FSE 2024

2021

AUTOTRAINER: An Automatic DNN Training Problem Detection and Repair System

Xiaoyu Zhang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen

ICSE 2021

Education

2023 - 2025

Visiting Student

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2020 - 2025

Ph.D in Cyberspace Security

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

2016 - 2020

B.S. in Automation (Young Gifted Program)

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Services

Reviewer: ICLR 2026, TOSEM, TCYB

AE Committee Member: ICSE 2025, ISSTA 2024

Misc

Beyond research, I enjoy:

  • ✈ïļ Traveling
  • 🍜 Exploring cuisines
  • ðŸĶ Birdwatching

Contact

Email: joshingrain@gmail.com