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Zhou Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and an Amii Fellow. He completed his Ph.D. at SMU, after earning an MSc from UCL. He is recognized for establishing scientific and practical foundations of trustworthy codeLLMs, integrating robustness, security, privacy, and ecosystem insights to drive safer AI adoption in software engineering. Zhou has won with multiple awards, including 2026 MSR Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, 2025 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2024 IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award, ACM Distinguished Paper Awards at ASE 2025 and ISSTA 2024, ACSAC Honorable Mention Award, and the Gold Medal in the ACM SRC at ICSE 2024. He serves on program and organizing committees for top software engineering conferences, collaborates with researchers across multiple continents, and is actively building a research group focused on large language models for code, AI security and privacy, and sustainable AI systems.
Contributions
2026
ICSE
- Training on Clean Data but Getting Backdoored Models! A Poisoning Attack on Code Encoders
- Efficient and Green Large Language Models for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road Ahead
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Track-track
- Scrub It Out! Erasing Sensitive Memorization in Code Language Models via Machine Unlearning