Yakun Zhang (张雅坤)

(Tenure-Track) Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Email: zhangyk@hit.edu.cn

Location: Room 1620, Building L, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Official Homepage: https://faculty.hitsz.edu.cn/zhangyakun

She is currently a (Tenure-Track) Associate Professor in School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). She received Ph.D. degree from Peking University in July 2025, under the supervisions of Prof. Lu Zhang and Prof. Dan Hao. She was a visiting scholar in National University of Singapore supervised by Prof. Jin-Song Dong. She was selected for the Top Talent Program of Tencent —— "Qingyun Talent Program (腾讯青云计划)", Top Talent Program of ByteDance —— "Soaring Star Talent Program (字节跳动筋斗云计划)", and the inaugural Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST, Doctoral Student Special Plan (中国科协青年托举工程博士生专项).

Recruit

🎓 课题组 2026 届博士/硕士仍有名额，欢迎有志于科研的同学申请（邮箱：zhangyk@hit.edu.cn）。 同时也非常欢迎有自驱力的大二 / 大三 / 大四本科生加入，开启属于你的科研探索之旅～

课题组简介

  • 💻 资源充足：稳定的经费支持与计算资源，为实验与研究全力护航。
  • 🗣 科研陪伴：每周一次一对一讨论，帮助把控进度与方向。
  • 👨‍🏫 导师小札： 经历丰富、E人+J人、一起科研、一起玩耍：可以带着打比赛（曾经是物联网竞赛、信安竞赛国二队长、创业大赛全国前十队长）；可以交流如何好好读书（本科专业第一）；如何平衡科研/学习/学工（曾是中科院软件所研究生会主席）；如何做科研（很幸运被软工顶会认可，本科就开始在lab科研，深深懂得同学们初接触科研的困难）；找工作加助力（很幸运得到了大厂顶级人才计划的认可，这里有满满的真实面经）。
  • 🌍 合作与交流：常年与北京大学、中国科学院大学、新加坡国立大学、南洋理工大学等高校；与微软亚洲研究院、DeepSeek、华为、腾讯、字节跳动等企业合作，可推荐课题组优秀同学访学、实习、深造。

招生计划

📌 每年招生：硕士生 2 名，博士生 1 名。

✨ 我希望同学们在课题组中： 学得开心、飞得更高，找到自己真正喜欢的方向，奔赴更广阔的天地～

Experience

  • Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen , 08/2025-now
    • Associate Professor
    • School of Computer Science and Technology
    Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), 08/2019-03/2020
    • Job: Data Knowledge Intelligent Group (DKI) Research Intern (Full-Time)
    • Direction: Table structure identification in Spreadsheets.
  • Wuhan University
    • B.S. in Computer Science (09/2014-07/2018)
    • Rank: Top1

News

  • [07/2025] I was honored as an ''Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality''.
  • [06/2025] I was honored as an ''Outstanding Graduate of Peking University''.
  • [05/2025] I was invited to serve as a PC member for ASE 2025 (Research Track).
  • [03/2025] Our full paper entitled ''HapTest: The Dynamic Analysis Framework for OpenHarmony'' has been accepted by FSE 2025 (Industry Track). Congratulations to Farong!
  • [02/2025] Our full paper entitled ''GUI Test Migration via Abstraction and Concretization'' has been accepted by TOSEM 2025.
  • [12/2024] Our full paper entitled ''Automatically Learning a Precise Measurement for Fault Diagnosis Capability of Test Cases'' has been accepted by TOSEM 2025. Congratulations to Yifan!
  • [10/2024] I was invited to serve as a PC member for ICSE 2026 (Research Track) and MSR 2025 (Research Track).
  • [07/2024] Our full paper entitled ''Synthesis-based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration'' is accepted by ISSTA 2024.

Research Interest

  • Intelligent Software Engineering: By integrating artificial intelligence technologies such as large language models and deep learning, this direction advances the automation and intelligence of software engineering tasks This area has already attracted wide attention in industry, with representative products such as Cursor and Manus demonstrating its significant application potential.
  • Multi-Agent Systems: This direction explores the mechanisms of multi-agent collaboration and studies their applications in scenarios such as end-to-end code generation and intelligent assistants. Examples such as GUI Agent and Siri, laying a practical foundation for future intelligent software development.
  • Trustworthy Large Language Models: This research focuses on the key challenges faced by large language models, such as hallucinations, security, fairness, and robustness. It explores new methods for automatically detecting and repairing defects in AI models, driving the development of more trustworthy and controllable paradigms for large language models.

Publication & Patent

  1. [FSE 2025] HapTest: The Dynamic Analysis Framework for OpenHarmony
    Farong Liu, Mingyi Zhou, Yakun Zhang, Ting Su, Bo Sun, Jacques Klein, Xiang Gao, Li Li
    33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) (CCF-A).
  2. [TOSEM 2025] GUI Test Migration via Abstraction and Concretization [PDF]
    Yakun Zhang, Chen Liu, Xiaofei Xie, Yun Lin, Jin Song Dong, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 (TOSEM) (CCF-A).
  3. [TOSEM 2025] Automatically Learning a Precise Measurement for Fault Diagnosis Capability of Test Cases
    Yifan Zhao, Zeyu Sun, Guoqing Wang, Qingyuan Liang, Yakun Zhang, Yiling Lou, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 (TOSEM) (CCF-A).
  4. [ISSTA 2024] Synthesis-based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration [PDF]
    Yakun Zhang, Qihao Zhu, Jiwei Yan, Chen Liu, Yifan Zhao, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang.
    33rd International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (CCF-A).
  5. [ICSE 2024] Learning-based widget matching for Migrating GUI Test Cases. [PDF]
    Yakun Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Dezhi Ran, Qihao Zhu, Chengfeng Dou, Dan Hao, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang.
    46th International Conference on Software Engineering (CCF-A).
  6. [ISSTA 2021] Semantic Table Structure Identification in Spreadsheets. [PDF]
    Yakun Zhang, Xiao Lv, Haoyu Dong, Wensheng Dou, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang, Jun Wei, Dan Ye.
    30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (CCF-A).
  7. [ISSTA 2020] Learning to Detect Table Clones in Spreadsheets. [PDF]
    Yakun Zhang, Wensheng Dou, Jiaxin Zhu, Liang Xu, Zhiyong Zhou, Jun Wei, Dan Ye, Bo Yang.
    29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (CCF-A).
  8. A City Roadside Parking System Based on Ultrasonic Sensors.
    Yakun Zhang, Zhiyuan Deng, Yinjie Guo, Xiaowei Zhang.
    ZL201720326838.9, 03/2017.

Awards and Certificates

  1. Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality, 07/2025
    • Rank: 4/250
  2. Outstanding Graduate of Peking University, 06/2025
  3. Qingyun Talent Program, Top Talent Program in Tencent, 04/2025
  4. Soaring Start Talent Program, Top Talent Program in ByteDance, 01/2025
      5. The inaugural Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST, Doctoral Student Special Plan, 01/2025
    • Rank: 2/250
  5. Outstanding student leaders of Peking University, 09/2023
  6. President's Scholarship in Peking University, 09/2021
    • Rank: 3/400
  7. President's Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 07/2021
  8. Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality, 07/2021
  9. Outstanding Graduate of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 06/2021
    • Rank: 1/120
  10. National Scholarship, 12/2020
    • Top 0.2%
  11. Model of Merit Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 06/2020
  12. Big Data & Computational Intelligence Contest, 09/2018-11/2018
    • Rank: 12/2444
  13. Outstanding Graduate of Wuhan University, 06/2018
  14. National University Student Information Security Competition, 11/2016-08/2017
    • National Second Prize
  15. National University Student Internet of Things Competition, 10/2015-08/2016
    • National Second Prize

Academic Service

Program Committee Member

  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025, CCF-A, Research Track)
  • International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026, CCF-A, Research Track)
  • Mining Software Repositories Conference (MSR 2025, CCF-A, Research Track)

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A)

Student Service

  1. Party Branch Secretary of the School of Computer Science, Peking University, 2021-2023
  2. President of the Student Council in Institute of Software, Chinese Academic of Science, 2019-2020
  3. President of the Youth Volunteer Association in School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, 2015-2016
  4. Vice President of Student Council in School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, 2014-2015

Hobbies

  • When having spare time, I love to play Pipa or Chinese Zither. Besides this, I also love to dance with my friends in the dance room.

Last modified: 2025/08