Yiheng Xiong (熊一衡) is a postdoctoral research scientist at Singapore Management University (SMU), working with Prof. Xiaofei Xie. He received his Ph.D. degree from East China Normal University (ECNU), under the supervision of Prof. Ting Su and Prof. Geguang Pu. He was fortunate enough to visit the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. Zhendong Su. He obtained the B.Eng. degree at SUSTech in 2020.

His research interests lie in software engineering, with a focus on mobile app testing and malware detection. His work has received three ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (ISSTA 2023, ASE 2024, and ISSTA 2026). He is maintaining a paper list on Android testing, analysis, and security.

📖 Educations

• 2023.10 - 2024.10, Visiting Ph.D. Student, ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Zhendong Su.
• 2020.09 - 2025.06, Ph.D. in Software Engineering, East China Normal University, supervised by Prof. Ting Su and Prof. Geguang Pu.
• 2016.09 - 2020.06, B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), supervised by Prof. Yepang Liu.

🔥 News

• 2026.09:  🏆 ISSTA 2026 paper received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (19 of 888 submissions, top 2.1%).
• 2026.07:  🎉 One paper accepted to ASE 2026.
• 2026.05:  I was invited to serve as a Program Committee member for FSE 2027.
• 2026.04:  🎉 Two papers accepted to ISSTA 2026.
• 2026.02:  🎉 One paper accepted to FSE 2026 (demo track).

📝 Selected Publications

• [ASE 2026] PropGen: Automated Property Generation for Property-Based Testing of Mobile Apps CCFA
  Yiheng Xiong, Shiwen Song, Bo Ma, Ting Su, Xiaofei Xie
  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  [pdf] [repo]

• [ISSTA 2026] From Natural Language to Executable Properties for Property-based Testing of Mobile Apps CCFA
  Yiheng Xiong, Ting Su, Jingling Sun, Jue Wang, Qin Li, Geguang Pu, Zhendong Su
  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  [pdf] [repo]

• [ISSTA 2026] Characterizing and Repairing Obsolete Android GUI Tests under UI Evolution CCFAACM SIGSOFTDistinguished Paper Award · Top 2.1%
  Shiwen Song, Yiheng Xiong^✉, Wenbo Guo, Manqi Sun, Jiaolong Kong, Xiaofei Xie
  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  [pdf] [repo]

• [ASE 2024] General and Practical Property-based Testing for Android Apps CCFAACM SIGSOFTDistinguished Paper Award
  Yiheng Xiong, Ting Su, Jue Wang, Jingling Sun, Geguang Pu, Zhendong Su
  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  [pdf] [repo]

• [ISSTA 2023] An Empirical Study of Functional Bugs in Android Apps CCFAACM SIGSOFTDistinguished Paper Award
  Yiheng Xiong, Mengqian Xu, Ting Su, Jingling Sun, Jue Wang, He Wen, Geguang Pu, Jifeng He, Zhendong Su
  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  [pdf] [repo]

All Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2026, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA (19 of 888 submissions, top 2.1%)
• 2025, Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai (上海市优秀毕业生)
• 2024, National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
• 2024, Merit Student of East China Normal University (华东师范大学优秀学生)
• 2024, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE
• 2023, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA
• 2023, Merit Student of East China Normal University (华东师范大学优秀学生)
• 2023, Joint Ph.D Student Scholarship, CSC (国家留学基金委博士研究生联合培养奖学金)

🧑‍🏫 Academic Services

• Program Committee (PC) Member, FSE 2027
• Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• Reviewer, Empirical Software Engineering