Ph.D. Student

Email: xiangjh2022 AT mail.sustech.edu.cn

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

I am Jiahong Xiang (香佳宏 in Chinese), a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), supervised by Prof. Yuqun Zhang and working closely with Prof. Lingming Zhang. My research focuses on Greybox Fuzzing, Program Repair, and Debugging Agents.

Education

Southern University of Science and Technology
Sept. 2025 - Present
- Degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (transferred from M.S.)
- Supervised by Prof. Yuqun Zhang
- Research Focus: Greybox Fuzzing, Program Repair, Debugging Agents
Southern University of Science and Technology
Sept. 2022 - June 2025
- Degree: M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
- GPA: 3.88/4.0 (Rank 1st in Department)
Southern University of Science and Technology
Sept. 2018 - June 2022
- Degree: B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
- GPA: 3.76/4.0

Publications

FSE 2026 Jiahong Xiang, Xiaoyang Xu, Xiaopan Chu, Hongliang Tian, and Yuqun Zhang. Empowering Autonomous Debugging Agents with Efficient Dynamic Analysis. In Proceedings of The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering. Montreal, Canada, July 2026. To appear.
ICSE 2026 Jiahong Xiang, Wenxiao He, Xihua Wang, Hongliang Tian, and Yuqun Zhang. Evaluating and Improving Automated Repository-Level Rust Issue Resolution with LLM-based Agents. In Proceedings of The 48^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2026.PDFGitHub
ICSE 2025 Mingyuan Wu^†, Jiahong Xiang^†, Kunqiu Chen, Peng Di, Shin Hwei Tan, Heming Cui, and Yuqun Zhang. Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: How do Assisting Exploration Strategies Facilitate Grey-box Fuzzing? In Proceedings of The 47^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. Ottawa, Canada, Apr. 2025.PDFGitHubACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award(† equal contribution)
JoS 2025 Jiahong Xiang, Xiaoyang Xu, Fanchu Kong, Pai Peng, Zhao Zhang, and Yuqun Zhang. A Comprehensive Review of the Application and Development of Large Language Models in Software Defect Detection and Repair. Journal of Software (in Chinese)PDF
FSE 2023 Mingyuan Wu, Kunqiu Chen, Qi Luo, Jiahong Xiang, Ji Qi, Junjie Chen, Heming Cui, and Yuqun Zhang. Enhancing Coverage-guided Fuzzing via Phantom Program. In Proceedings of The 31^st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. San Francisco, USA, Dec. 2023.PDF
ICSE 2022 Mingyuan Wu, Ling Jiang, Jiahong Xiang, Yuqun Zhang, Guowei Yang, Huixin Ma, Sen Nie, Shi Wu, Heming Cui, and Lingming Zhang. Evaluating and Improving Neural Program-Smoothing-based Fuzzing. In Proceedings of The 44^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 2022.PDF
ICSE 2022 Mingyuan Wu, Ling Jiang, Jiahong Xiang, Yanwei Huang, Heming Cui, Lingming Zhang, and Yuqun Zhang. One Fuzzing Strategy to Rule Them All. In Proceedings of The 44^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 2022.PDF

Preprints

ArXiv Jiahong Xiang, Xiaoyang Xu, Fanchu Kong, Mingyuan Wu, Zizheng Zhan, Haotian Zhang, and Yuqun Zhang. How Far Can We Go with Practical Function-Level Program Repair?arXivGitHub

Honors and Awards

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2025
ACM CAPS Grant, 2025
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2024
BYD Scholarship, 2024
First Prize, CCF Automated Program Repair Competition (ChinaSoft 2024)

Services

Journal Reviewer

Reviewer for Automated Software Engineering (Springer journal), 2025
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

Conference Reviewer

External Reviewer: FSE 2026, ICSE 2026, ICSE 2025, ISSTA 2025, ASE 2025, ISSTA 2024, ISSRE 2024

Outside the Lab

读万卷书，行万里路。 Beyond my academic pursuits, I have a strong passion for hiking, having explored over 1,000 km of trails. I also appreciate deep reading across topics like social sciences, history, and psychology.

Aesthetically, I am drawn to Mies van der Rohe’s “Less is More”, and musically, I enjoy both Bach and Gould, especially the Goldberg Variations. Feel free to reach out to me!