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Haowen Yang

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Data Science and Analytics Thrust at HKUST (Guangzhou), where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zishuo Ding.

Previously, I earned my M.Phil. degree from CUHK-Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Pinjia He. Before that, I received my B.Eng. degree from NUAA in 2022.

My current research interests lie in LLM4SE, particularly leveraging LLMs for code efficiency and OSS.

Haowen Yang

News

2025.04

🎉 First-authored paper accepted by FSE'25.

2024.09

Served as a Reviewer for TOSEM'25.

2024.08

Paper accepted by ICSE'25.

Selected Publications

FSE 2025

Towards Understanding Performance Bugs in Popular Data Science Libraries

Haowen Yang, Zhengda Li, Zhiqing Zhong, Xiaoying Tang, Pinjia He

ICSE 2025

An Empirical Study on Commit Message Generation using LLMs via In-Context Learning

Yifan Wu, Yunpeng Wang, Ying Li, Wei Tao, Siyu Yu, Haowen Yang, Wei Jiang, Jianguo Li

ICSE 2025

An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem

Zhiqing Zhong, Shilin He, Haoxuan Wang, BoXi Yu, Haowen Yang, Pinjia He

Education

HKUST (Guangzhou)

2025 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science

CUHK-Shenzhen

2022 - 2024
M.Phil. in Computer & Info Eng

NUAA

2018 - 2022
B.Eng. in Automation

Experience

Huawei Cloud PaaS Lab

2023.06 - 2023.09
Research Intern

Optimization of large-scale cloud systems.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer: TOSEM
  • External Reviewer: ICSE '25, ISSRE '24