👀 About Me

I am a PhD student in the College of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

My research focuses on Intelligent Software Engineering, with a spotlight on the following key areas:

• Reliability
• Robustness
• Security
• Economy
• Evaluation Metrics
• Others

My advisor is Professor Yu Zhou (周宇), Xiang Chen (陈翔), and David Lo. I have published over 30 papers at the international SE conferences (e.g., SANER, ICSME) and journals (e.g., TSE, TOSEM, EMSE).

🔥 News

• 2025.05:  🎉 One paper is accepted by ACL Main!
• 2025.05:  🎉 One paper is accepted by TSE!
• 2025.05:  🎉 One paper is accepted by TOSEM!
• 2025.05:  🎉 One paper is accepted by TOSEM!
• 2025.02:  🎉 One paper is accepted by IST!

📖 Educations

• 2024.08 - 2025.07, Visiting Ph.D student, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
• 2022.09 - present, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, major in Software Engineering.
• 2019.09 - 2022.06, Nantong University, major in Computer Technology.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Nantong University, major in Software Engineering.

📝 Selected Publications

1. TOSEM'25 Less is More: DocString Compression in Code Generation.
   Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, WEI CHENG, XIANGYU ZHANG, Xiang Chen, Terry Yue Zhuo, KE LIU, XIN ZHOU, David Lo, and Taolue Chen In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, To Appear. 2025.

   IF2024: 6.6, CCF-A [Code] [DOI]

2. TOSEM'25 DeCE: Deceptive Cross-Entropy Loss Designed for Defending Backdoor Attacks.
   Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Terry Yue Zhuo, David Lo, and Taolue Chen.
   In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, To Appear. 2025.

   IF2024: 6.6, CCF-A [Code] [DOI]

3. TSE'24 Chain-of-Thought in Neural Code Generation: From and For Lightweight Language Models.
   Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Terry Yue Zhuo, and Taolue Chen.
   In Transactions on Software Engineering, Sept. 2024.

   IF2024: 6.5, CCF-A [Code] [DOI]

4. TOSEM'24 How Important are Good Method Names in Neural Code Generation? A Model Robustness Perspective.
   Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Wenhua Yang, Tao Yue, Xiang Chen, and Taolue Chen.
   In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, March, 2024.

   IF2024: 6.6, CCF-A [Code] [DOI]

5. TSE'25 Anchor Attention, Small Cache: Code Generation with Large Language Models.
   Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Harald C. Gall, Taolue Chen.
   In Transactions on Software Engineering, To appear, 2025.

   IF2025: 6.6, CCF-A [DOI]

6. ACL Main'25 Beyond Sequences: Two-dimensional Representation and Dependency Encoding for Code Generation.
   Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Wei Cheng, Taolue Chen.
   In The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, To appear, 2025.

   CCF-A [DOI]

7. 计算机研究与发展'24 CodeScore-R：用于评估代码合成功能准确性的自动化鲁棒指标.
   杨光, 周宇, 陈翔, 张翔宇.
   In 计算机研究与发展, 2024.

   IF2024: 4.149, 中文 CCF-A [DOI]

8. 软件学报'21 代码注释自动生成方法综述.
   陈翔, 杨光, 崔展齐, 孟国柱, 王赞.
   In 软件学报, July, 2021.

   IF2021: 3.993, 中文 CCF-A [DOI]

9. KBS'22 CCGIR: Information Retrieval-based Code Comment Generation Method for Smart Contracts.
   Guang Yang, Ke Liu, Xiang Chen, Yanlin Zhou, Chi Yu, and Hao Lin.
   In Knowledge-Based Systems, February, 2022.

   IF2022: 8.139, SCI-Q1 [Code] [DOI]

🔍 Services

Journal Reviewing

• CCF-B Automated Software Engineering
• CCF-B Information Processing & Management
• CCF-C Expert Systems With Applications
• CCF-C Soft Computing
• CCF-C Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Conference Activities

• CCF-A ACL 2025, PC Member
• CCF-A IJCAI 2025, PC Member
• CCF-C IJCNN 2025, Reviewer
• ICLR ICLR 2025, Reviewer
• ICLR workshopDL4C@ICLR 2025, Reviewer
• CCF-B workshop MSR4P&S@SANER 2025, PC Member
• CCF-B EMNLP 2023, Reviewer