Qiang Hu

Associate Professor (副教授，博导)

College of Intelligence and Computing, School of Cyber Security
Tianjin University

Email: qianghu0515[at]gmail[dot]com

Biography

I am an Associate Professor at Tianjin University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo, working with Prof. Lei Ma. I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Luxembourg, advised by Prof. Yves Le Traon, Prof. Mike Papadakis, and Prof. Maxime Cordy. Before that, I received my Master degree from Kyushu University, advised by Prof. Jianjun Zhao.

My research interests span the areas of software engineering and deep learning, including SE4AI and AI4SE.
Our recent survey about label-efficient testing of DL can be found at Survey.

欢迎对可信人工智能、软件安全以及智能软件工程相关研究感兴趣的同学~~(2026年研究生入学)~~与我联系,可以发送个人简历到我的邮箱或与我约时间交流.长期招收本科生进入实验室参与科研实习。

Selected Publications

* corresponding author. Full paper list can be found at [Google Scholar].

Defects4C: Benchmarking Large Language Model Repair Capability with C/C++ Bugs
Jian Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu*, Shangqing Liu*, Jiongchi Yu, Jiaolong Kong, and Yi Li.
In Proc. 40th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025)
Do Code Semantics Help? A Comprehensive Study on Execution Trace-Based Information for Code Large Language Models
Jian Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu*, Shangqing Liu, and Yi Li.
In the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025-Findings).
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling
Yuheng Huang, Jiayang Song, Qiang Hu, Felix Xu, and Lei Ma.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2025
CAShift: Benchmarking Log-Based Cloud Attack Detection under Normality Shift
Jiongchi Yu, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu*, Bowen Zhang, Ziming Zhao, Yun Lin, Lei Ma, Ruitao Feng, and Frank Liau.
In the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2025
Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving System: An Initial Roadmap
Xiongfei Wu, Mingfei Cheng, Qiang Hu, Jianlang Chen, Yuheng Huang, Manabu OKADA, Michio HAYASHI, Tomoyuki TSUCHIYA, Xiaofei Xie, and Lei Ma.
2030 Software Engineering, co-located with FSE 2025
Quantum Software Engineering in Large Language Model Era: Testing, Generation, and Repair
Jiaming Ye, Qiang Hu, Fuyuan Zhang, Xiongfei Wu, Jianjun Zhao, and Yuanshun Dai.
2030 Software Engineering, co-located with FSE 2025
Large Language Model Supply Chain: Open Problems From the Security Perspective
Qiang Hu, Xiaofei Xie, Sen Chen, Lili Quan, and Lei Ma
In the 1st International Workshop on Large Language Model Supply Chain Analysis (LLMSC), co-located with ISSTA 2025
CKGFuzzer: LLM-Based Fuzz Driver Generation Enhanced By Code Knowledge Graph
Hanxiang Xu, Wei Ma, Ting Zhou, Yanjie Zhao, Kai Chen, Qiang Hu, Yang Liu, and Haoyu Wang.
In Proc. 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Industry Challenge Track Best Paper Award
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement
Jin Wen, Qiang Hu*, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, and Yves Le Traon.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2025
Boosting Source Code Learning with Text-Oriented Data Augmentation: An Empirical Study
Zeming Dong, Qiang Hu*, Yuejun Guo, Zhenya Zhang, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon, and Jianjun Zhao.
In Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2025
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Wei Ma, Mike Papadakis, Lei Ma, and Yves Le Traon.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2025
Towards Exploring the Limitations of Test Selection Techniques on Graph Neural Networks: An Empirical Study
Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Wei Ma, Yuejun Guo, Qiang Hu, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy, and Yves Le Traon.
In Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2024
Outside the Comfort Zone: Analysing LLM Capabilities in Software Vulnerability Detection
Yuejun Guo, Constantinos Patsakis, Qiang Hu, Qiang Tang and Fran Casino.
In 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2024.
On the Effectiveness of Hybrid Pooling in Mixup-Based Graph Learning for Language Processing
Zeming Dong, Qiang Hu*, Yuejun Guo, Zhenya Zhang, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon, and Jianjun Zhao.
In Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 2024
Active Code Learning: Benchmarking Sample-Efficient Training of Code Models
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2024.
Test Optimization in DNN Testing: A Survey
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2024
Unveiling Code Pre-Trained Models: Investigating Syntax and Semantics Capacities.
Wei Ma, Shangqing Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Xiaofei Xie, Wenhan Wang, Qiang Hu, Jie Zhang, and Yang Liu.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2024.
LaF: Labeling-Free Model Selection for Automated Deep Neural Network Reusing
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2023
Aries: Efficient Testing of Deep Neural Networks via Labeling-Free Accuracy Estimation
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In Proc. 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)
Towards Understanding Model Quantization for Reliable Deep Neural Network Deployment
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Wei Ma, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In 2nd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI (CAIN) 2023
MUTEN: Mutant-Based Ensembles for Boosting Gradient-Based Adversarial Attack
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis and Yves Le Traon
In Proc. 38th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), NIER track
RNNS: Representation Nearest Neighbor Search Black-Box Attack on Code Models
Jie Zhang, Wei Ma, Qiang Hu, Xiaofei Xie, Yves Le Traon, and Yang Liu.
In the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023-Findings).
KAPE: kNN-Based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search
Yuejun Guo, Qiang Hu*, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon.
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2023.
CodeS: A Distribution Shift Benchmark Dataset for Source Code Learning
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Maxime Cordy, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
In Proc. 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), NIER track
An Empirical Study of the Imbalance Issue in Software Vulnerability Detection
Yuejun Guo, Qiang Hu*, Qiang Tang, and Yves Le Traon.
In the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2023.
MixCode: Enhancing Code Classification by Mixup-Based Data Augmentation
Zeming Dong, Qiang Hu*, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Zhenya Zhang, Yves Le Traon, and Jianjun Zhao.
In 30th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2023).
An Empirical Study on Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection for Deep Learning Enhancement
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis and Yves Le Traon
In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2022
GraphCode2Vec: Generic Code Embedding via Lexical and Program Dependence Analyses
Wei Ma, Mengjie Zhao, Ezekiel Soremekun, Qiang Hu, Jie Zhang, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Yves Le Traon.
In Proc. 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022).
Towards Exploring the Limitations of Active learning: An Empirical Study
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Wei Ma, Mike Papadakis and Yves Le Traon
In Proc. 36th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021)
Towards Characterizing Adversarial Defects of Deep Learning Software from the Lens of Uncertainty
Xiyue Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Xiaoning Du, Qiang Hu, Yang Liu, Jianjun Zhao and Meng Sun.
In Proc. 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020).
An Empirical Study towards Characterizing Deep Learning Development and Deployment across Different Frameworks and Platforms
Qianyu Guo, Sen Chen, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Qiang Hu, Hongtao Liu, Yang Liu, Jianjun Zhao, Xiaohong Li.
In Proc. 34th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019).
DeepMutation++: A Mutation Testing Framework for Deep Learning Systems
Qiang Hu, Lei Ma, Xiaofei Xie, Bing Yu, Yang Liu, and Jianjun Zhao
In Proc. 34th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), Tool Demo Track
DeepGraph: A Pycharm Tool for Visualizing and Understanding Deep Learning Models
Qiang Hu, Lei Ma, and Jianjun Zhao
In 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2018), ERA Track

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Luxembourg. 2020/09 - 2023/12. Supervisor: Prof. Yves Le Traon, Co-Supervisors: Dr. Maxime Cordy and Prof. Mike Papadakis

Master of Information Science, Kyushu University. 2018/04 - 2020/03. Supervisor: Prof. Jianjun Zhao

Research student, Kyushu University. 2017/10 - 2018/03. Supervisor: Prof. Jianjun Zhao

Bachelor of Information and Software Engineering, UESTC. 2013/09 - 2017/06

Honors & Awards

Best Industry Challenge Paper Award at ICSE 2025
NEC C&C Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences (200,000 JPY), 2019

Invited Talk

Efficient Testing and Maintenance of Deep Neural Networks
Xi'an Jiaotong University
June 2023

Projects

STELLAR: Testing Self-Learning Systems, FNR, 2020-2023

Coverage Guided Anomaly Detection, Mitsubishi, 2019-2020

Services

PC member: ICECCS 2025, ASE 2025, 2024, Internetware 2024, Forge 2024, ISSTA AE 2024, 2023
Reviewer: TSE, TOSEM, EMSE, ASE(J). NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks track 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022.

Teaching

Spring 2019, Teaching Assistant in The Concepts of Programming Languages, instructed by Prof. Jianjun Zhao