Yifan Zhang (中文: 张一凡, 日本語: チャン・イーファン, Русский: Ифань Чжан) is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University (Vandy), where he is supervised by Prof. Kevin J. Leach and Prof. Yu Huang at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (VU-ISIS). He is concurrently pursuing an Online Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech). Previously, he earned his B.A., B.Eng., and M.Eng. from China University of Petroleum (CUP) at Beijing and worked as a machine learning engineer at JD.com. During his doctoral studies, he is completing/has completed research internships at Google, IBM, Intel, and ByteDance. His research focuses on leveraging AI for Programming Languages and Software Engineering (AI4Code). In particular, he explores how abstract interpretation methods enriched with symbolic reasoning can be integrated into LLMs to improve neural code analysis and comprehension.
Vanderbilt University, 2022-2026
Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI for Software Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-2025
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Machine Learning
China University of Petroleum, 2012-2019
B.A., B.Eng., M.Eng. in English & Petroleum Engineering
University of Calgary, 2015-2016
Undergraduate Exchange Program in Petroleum Engineering
[03/13/2025] Invited as a PC member for ACL'25 Industry.
[03/12/2025] One paper got accepted to FSE'25 IVR.
[02/19/2025] One paper got accepted to HotSoS'25 WIP hosted by NSA.
[02/17/2025] Invited as a PC member for NeurIPS'25.
[02/13/2025] One paper got accepted to NAACL'25 Industry.
[01/13/2025] Started my Student Researcher at Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
[01/12/2025] One paper got accepted to ICPC'25 ERA.
[12/11/2024] Invited as a PC member for ICML'25.
[12/10/2024] One paper got accepted to ICSE'25 JF.
[10/15/2024] One paper got accepted to TMech with IF of 6.38.
[08/23/2024] Invited as a PC member for ICLR'25.
[07/15/2024] Attended FSE'24 in Porto de Galinhas, PE, Brazil.
[06/10/2024] Started my GenAI Intern at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
[06/02/2024] Invited as a PC member for NeurIPS'24 D&B.
[05/30/2024] Invited as a PC member for DMLR@ICML'24.
[05/24/2024] Invited as a PC member for NeurIPS'24.
[04/23/2024] On paper got accepted to TOSEM with IF of 4.978.
[04/09/2024] Invited as a PC member for CCS'24 AE.
[03/15/2024] Selected as a top reviewer for DMLR@ICLR'24 with TR of 9.41%.
[01/25/2024] Invited as a PC member for MICCAI'24.
[01/23/2024] One paper got accepted to WWW'24 with AR of 20.2%.
[01/22/2024] One paper got accepted to FSE'24 with direct AR of 11.59%.
[01/11/2024] Invited as a PC member for DMLR@ICLR'24.
[01/04/2024] One paper got accepted to ICPC‘24 RENE.
[12/19/2023] Passed my Ph.D. Preliminary Examination.
[09/05/2023] One paper got accepted to TMI with IF of 11.037.
[07/13/2023] Invited as a PC member for AAAI'24.
[07/07/2023] One paper got accepted to ASE'23 NIER.
[05/22/2023] Started my RS intern at ByteDance in San Jose, CA, USA.
[03/19/2023] Invited as a PC member for MLSys'23 AE.
[03/02/2023] One paper got accepted to InteNSE@ICSE'23.
[02/06/2023] Invited as a PC member for MICCAI'23.
[01/06/2023] Invited as a PC member for DCAA@AAAI'23.
[12/04/2022] Invited as a Junior PC member for MSR'23.
[11/28/2022] Attended NeurIPS'22 in New Orleans, LA, USA.
[10/10/2022] Attended ASE'22 in Detroit, MI, USA.
[09/22/2022] Attended MICCAI'22 virtually in Singapore.
[08/05/2022] One paper got accepted to ASE'22 DS.
[08/01/2022] Invited as a PC member for AAAI'23.
[07/18/2022] One paper got accepted to CaPTion@MICCAI'22.
[07/02/2022] Invited as a PC member for CaPTion@MICCAI'22.
[06/01/2022] Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University.
AI Reasoning Group, Neuro-symbolic AI
Google CORE Developer Group, Foundation Software Engineering
Incubation and Disruptive Innovation (IDI) Group, Intel Silicon Valley
Infrastructure Systems Lab, TikTok Applied Research Center
Duke Center for AI in Radiology, Duke University Medical Center
HKU Business School
Intelligent Risk Management Lab, JD Technology
Institute for Data Science, Udacity China