Boyang Yang | Yanshan University

About Me

I am an Incoming Assistant Professor, and CTO of Beijing Jisuanke Co., Ltd. I obtained Ph.D.’s degree from Yanshan University under the supervision of Prof. Shunfu Jin, Prof. Haoye Tian, and Prof. Jiadong Ren. Before that, I obtained bachelor’s and master’s degree from Beihang University, under the supervision of Prof. Zhoujun Li. I am a Senior Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and an external supervisor at Wuhan University. Represented Beihang University in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals and achieved 27th place. I have published 5 papers in the Research Track of top-tier venues (ICSE, TOSEM, ISSTA), 3 of which I am the first author. I have served as a Program Committee member for FSE’26, ICSME’26, ICST’26, MSR’26, and AIware’26, and served as a reviewer for the journal EMSE, ASEJ, TOSEM, and TSE.

Research Interests

AI4SE
Program Repair
NLP

News

[Feb, 2026] Invited as a Program Committee of FSE’26 IVR Track.
[Jan, 2026] Invited as a reviewer of the EMSE, ASEJ, TOSEM, and TSE.
[Jan, 2026] Invited as a Program Committee of ICST’26 and AIware Research Track.
[Dec, 2025] One paper was accepted by ICSE’26.
[Dec, 2025] Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.
[Nov, 2025] Invited as a Program Committee of ICSME’26 Industry Track.
[Oct, 2025] One paper was accepted by ICSE’26.
[Sept, 2025] One paper was accepted by ASE’25 Journal First Track.
[Sept, 2025] Invited as a Program Committee of MSR’26 Research Track and Industry Track.
[June, 2025] Invited as a reviewer of NeurIPS’25 and ACL’25.
[May, 2025] Two paper were accepted by TOSEM.
[Jul, 2024] One paper was accepted by ISSTA’24.

Publications

Input Reduction Enhanced LLM-based Program Repair

Boyang Yang, Luyao Ren, Xin Yin, Jiadong Ren, Haoye Tian, Shunfu Jin

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2026.

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Unlocking LLM Repair Capabilities Through Cross-Language Translation and Multi-Agent Refinement

Wenqiang Luo, Jacky Wai Keung, Boyang Yang, Jacques Klein, Tegawende F Bissyande, Haoye Tian, Bach Le

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2026.

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MORepair: Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-tuning

Boyang Yang, Haoye Tian, Jiadong Ren, Hongyu Zhang, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F Bissyandé, Claire Le Goues, Shunfu Jin

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025.

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When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair

Wenqiang Luo, Jacky Keung, Boyang Yang, He Ye, Claire Le Goues, Tegawende F Bissyande, Haoye Tian, Xuan Bach D Le

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025.

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CREF: An LLM-based Conversational Software Repair Framework for Programming Tutors

Boyang Yang, Haoye Tian, Weiguo Pian, Haoran Yu, Haitao Wang, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F Bissyandé, Shunfu Jin

33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024.

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WASTK: A weighted abstract syntax tree kernel method for source code plagiarism detection

Deqiang Fu, Yanyan Xu, Haoran Yu, Boyang Yang

Scientific Programming, 2017

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Services

Conference Reviewers

Academic Positions

Senior Member of China Computer Fedoration
Academic Committee member of YOCSEF Baoding, China Computer Fedoration
Committee member of CTO Club and YOCSEF, China Computer Fedoration
External Supervisor at Wuhan University