Yi Song (宋壹)

Tenure-Track Associate Professor

Room B547
XinJia Building (新珈楼)
National Cybersecurity Center, Wuhan, China

yisong@whu.edu.cn

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Updated on Oct 10, 2026.

Biography

Dr. Yi Song is currently a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, China. His research interests include software security, software testing and debugging, and intelligent software engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Wuhan University under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoyuan Xie. Prior to his current position, he was a “HongYi (弘毅)” Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wuhan University and worked with Prof. Bo Du.

Publications

  Refereed Journals

  • 宋壹, 谢晓园, 张熙灏, 辛奇, 邢宸亮. 基于异常检查点植入的软件缺陷定位方法. 软件学报, 2026, 37(7): 2849-2870 [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xihao Zhang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Songqiang Chen, Quanming Liu and Ruizhi Gao. SURE: A Visualized Failure Indexing Approach using Program Memory Spectrum. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024, 33(8): 210 [CCF-A, JCR-1] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie and Baowen Xu. When Debugging Encounters Artificial Intelligence: State of the Art and Open Challenges. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2024, 67(4): 141101 [CCF-A, JCR-1] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Quanming Liu, Xihao Zhang and Xi Wu. A Comprehensive Empirical Investigation on Failure Clustering in Parallel Debugging. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2022, 193: 111452 [CCF-B, JCR-2] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Zhao Li, Yuhang Chen, Yi Song, Kangjie Lu and Jinwei Shen. Effective Covering Array Generation Using an Improved Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR), 2022, 71(1): 284-294 [JCR-1] [PDF] [HTML]

  Refereed Conferences

  • Yi Song, Dongchen Xie, Lin Xu, He Zhang, Chunying Zhou and Xiaoyuan Xie. Not Every Patch is an Island: LLM-Enhanced Identification of Multiple Vulnerability Patches. 2025 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’25) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML] ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award
  • Xihao Zhang, Yi Song (co-first author), Xiaoyuan Xie, Qi Xin and Chenliang Xing. Do not neglect what's on your hands: localizing software faults with exception trigger stream. 2024 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’24) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML] ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award
  • Yi Song, Xihao Zhang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Quanming Liu, Ruizhi Gao and Chenliang Xing. ReClues: Representing and indexing failures in parallel debugging with program variables. 2024 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’24) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Xihao Zhang, Quanming Liu and Ruizhi Gao. Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault Isolation. 2022 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’22) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML]
Academic Services
Grants
  • [2025] 获国家自然科学基金青年基金项目资助
  • [2025] 入选湖北省博士后创新人才培养项目
  • [2025] 获国家博后国境外学术交流专项资助
  • [2024] 入选湖北省博士后尖端人才引进计划
  • [2024] 入选武汉市科协青年科技朝阳计划
  • [2024] 获中国博士后科学基金会第76批面上项目资助
  • [2024] 获国家资助博士后研究人员计划资助
Awards
  • [2025] Outstanding Postdoctoral Award (Wuhan University)
       武汉大学优秀博士后奖
  • [2025] Instructor of the first prize winner of the China Postgraduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition
       中国研究生网络安全创新大赛全国一等奖指导教师
  • [2025] Young Talent Award of WuHan Association for Software Engineering (WHASE)
       武汉计算机软件工程学会青年才俊奖
  • [2025] ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award (ASE 2025) (ACM Sigsoft)
       ACM杰出论文奖 (CCF-A类会议)
  • [2024] ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award (ASE 2024) (ACM Sigsoft)
       ACM杰出论文奖 (CCF-A类会议)
  • [2024] The First-class Award of the 7th CCF Open Source Innovation Competition (China Computer Federation)
       第七届CCF开源创新大赛一等奖（1/5）
  • [2024] ACM-Wuhan & HBCS Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACM-Wuhan & Computer Society of Hubei Province)
       ACM武汉&湖北省计算机学会优秀博士论文奖