Yueke Zhang (张跃柯)

I am a PhD student majoring in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University , specifically Software Engineering direction, expected to graduate in 2027. Here is my CV.

My research interest lies in AI4SE, Automated Debugging and Open Source Software. I am supervised by Prof. Yu Huang and Prof. Kevin Leach

My email is yueke.zhang@vanderbilt.edu. Feel free to contact me.


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Education

  • Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, United States
    Aug. 2023-Present

    PhD Student in Computer Science
    Advisor: Yu Huang
    Topic: AI4SE, Automated Debugging, Open Source Software

    • Southwest University
    Chongqing, China
    Sep. 2019-Jun.2023

    Bachelor's Degree in Management Information System

Publications

 Who’s Pushing the Code? An Exploration of GitHub Impersonation
Yueke Zhang, Anda Liang, Xiaohan Wang, Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025, CCF-A)
PDF / code

Leveraging Evidence Theory to Improve Fault Localization: An Exploratory Study
Yueke Zhang, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2023, CCF-B)
PDF / code

Pre-Training Representations of Binary Code Using Contrastive Learning
Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang , Yueke Zhang, Kevin Cao, Scott Thomas Andersen, Huajie Shao, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, major revision, CCF-A)
arXiv / code

Leveraging Fuzzy System to Reduce Uncertainty of Decision Making in Software Engineering Automation
Yueke Zhang, Yu Huang,
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2022 Workshop GI
paper / code

CodeACT-R: A Cognitive Simulation Framework for Code Reading
Yueke Zhang, Zihan Fang, Greg Trafton, Daniel Levin, Kevin Leach,
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’ 2026, under review)
arXiv / code

Presentations

Leveraging Fuzzy System to Reduce Uncertainty of Decision Making in Software Engineering Automation(GI 2022')

Date: June 8, 2022
Slides: Link

Academic Performance

Overall GPA: 3.9/4