Academic Activities

I selectively consider senior academic service roles aligned with software engineering, AI security, empirical software engineering, and trustworthy AI systems.

International Standards Working Group

• IEEE Standards Association, IEEE P1633 Working Group (IEEE Recommended Practice on Software Reliability), See P1633 Standard;

Professional Service

• Technical Committee Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE)
• Trustworthy Digital Identity Interest Group, The Alan Turing Institute
• Interpretation, Verification and Modelling Interest Group, The Alan Turing Institute
• Committee Member, CCF Technical Committee on Software Engineering
• Committee Member, CCF Technical Committee on System Software
• Committee Member, Shanghai Computer Society (Software Engineering)

Professional Qualifications & Membership

• RISCS Affiliate Fellowship, The Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), (funded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC));
• Senior Member, IEEE;
• Member, ACM;
• Member, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI);
• Member, China Computer Federation (CCF);
• Member, ISACA
• Working Group Member, Data Analysis and Reporting Working Group, Informatics Europe
• Working Group Member, Early Career Researchers Working Group, Informatics Europe

Editorship

• Review Editor, Frontiers in Computer Science (Computer Security),since 2021; (ESCI indexed)
• Review Editor, Scientific Programming, Since 2021, [Certificate];

Grant/Award Review Panelist

• EPSRC Reviewer (Standard Grant, New Investigator Award), UK
• EPSRC Peer Review College Member
• NSFC Panelist (2025)
• Green Future Fellowship Assessor (2024–2025)
• Shanghai Science and Technology Award Panelist
• Shanghai SME Innovation Fund Reviewer

Conference Program Chairs

• EASE: 2026 - Doctoral Symposium Co-chair
• APSEC: 2026 - Early Research Achievements (ERA) Co-chair
• Internetware: 2024 - Publicity Co-chair

Conference Session Chairs

• ISSTA: 2025 Session Chair
• ICSE: 2025, Session Chair
• FSE: 2024, Session Chair

Conference Technical Program Committee

I regularly serve as a committee member for the top-tier (A*/A) conferences: ICSE, ASE, FSE, WWW, MSR, SANER, ICPC, CAiSE, COMPSAC, etc

2027

1. [ICSE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: 2027
2. [FSE] The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering: 2027;

2026

3. [ICSE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: 2026
4. [FSE] The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering: 2026;
5. [MSR] International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): 2026
6. [ICPC] International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): 2026
7. [WWW] ACM TheWebConf: Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and WoT track:2026;
8. [ASE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2026 Research Track;
9. [ASE NIER] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2026 NIER Track;
10. [COMPSAC] IEEE Computer Society’s flagship conference on Computers, Software, and Applications; 2026
11. [APSEC] The Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference; 2026

2025

12. [ICSE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: 2025
13. [MSR] Mining Software Repositories: 2025
14. [WWW] ACM TheWebConf: Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and WoT track:2025;
15. [ASE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2025 Research Track;
16. [ASE NIER] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2025 NIER Track;
17. [SEKE] International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE): 2025
18. [APSEC] 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC): 2025

2024

19. [ESEC/FSE] The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: 2024;
20. [ASE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2024
21. [ASE NIER] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2024 NIER Track;
22. [WWW] ACM TheWebConf: Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and WoT track:2024;
23. [ICPC] International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): 2024;
24. [SANER] The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): ERA Track: 2024;
25. [CAiSE] International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering(CAiSE): 2024;
26. [SEKE] International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE): 2024
27. [VaMoS] The International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS): 2024;
28. [APSEC] 31st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC): 2024;

2023

29. [ESEC/FSE] The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: 2023;
30. [ESEC/FSE] The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: Student Research Competition Track 2023
31. [ASE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2023;
32. [ASE] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: NIER 2023;
33. [ICPC] International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): 2023;
34. [SANER] The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): 2023;
35. [SANER] The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Tool Demo: 2023;
36. [CAiSE] International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering(CAiSE): 2023;
37. [EASE] International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE): 2023;
38. [MSR] International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): 2023
39. [MSR] International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Industry Track 2023
40. [APSEC] 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC): 2023;
41. [SEKE] International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE): 2023;
42. [VaMoS] The International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS): 2023;
43. [MOBILESoft] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft): 2023;

2022

44. [ICPC] International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): 2022;
45. [SEKE] International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE): 2022;
46. [MOBILESoft] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft): 2022;
47. [MOBILESoft] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft): Industry Forum:2022
48. [MSES], International Conference of Modern Systems Engineering Solutions: 2022
49. [FTC], Future Technologies Conference (FTC) : 2022

2021

50. [ChinaSoft], CCF Chinasoft Conference.(ChinaSoft): 2021;

Conference Artifact Evaluation Committee

• ICSE: 2022;
• ESEC/FSE: 2022; 2021
• PLDI: 2023; 2022;

Journal Referee

I am/was an invited reviewer for the following journals:

1. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC);
2. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC);
3. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE);
4. IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science;
5. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS);
6. Journal of Computer Security;
7. Automated Software Engineering (ASE);
8. IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR);
9. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM);
10. IEEE Access;
11. Frontier of Computer Science;
12. Scientific Programming;
13. SN Applied Sciences;
14. The Journal of System and Software;
15. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
16. Empirical Software Engineering
17. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering;
18. Security and Communication Networks;
19. Journal of Information Technology Research; (Ad-hoc Reviewer)
20. Computer Science (in Chinese);

News Interview/Media Coverage

• 12/Aug/2021 -- The Voice of China; [reference]
• 25/May/2022 -- The Voice of China; [reference]
• 23/Jun/2022 -- The Voice of China; [reference]!
• 6/Jul/2024 --- IEEE Spectrum "How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really? Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations"[reference]]

Invited Talks

Workshops / Conferences

• UCL CREST Workshop – Invited Talk
• The 12th International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology - Keynote Speaker;

University Seminars

• Lund University
• Fudan University
• ShanghaiTech University
• Queen’s University Belfast
• University of East London
• University of Central Lancashire
• University of Dundee
• University of Canterbury

Fix/Long-term University & Department Admin Roles

• Career Liaison Officer, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 10/2025 - now;
• Co-Impact Champion, Education and Practice (EAP) Section, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 10/2024 - now;

University Service

• Application Evaluation, University of Glasgow
• Open Day Organisation, University of Glasgow
• Admissions and Recruitment Roles (ShanghaiTech University)