CV
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, Apr-2026 (expected)
- M.Sc. Advanced Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Nov-2020
- B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, June-2016
- Visiting PhD, University of Tokyo, Jan-2026
Work experience
- 2016 - 2017: Assistant Software Engineer
- China Union Pay
- Duties includes: Automated test and Payment system.
- 2017 - 2019: Senior Software Engineer
- USTC iFlytek
- Duties included: NLP platform, DevOps and data processing system design.
Skills
- Machine Learning Tools
- Programming Languages
- Python
- Java
- C++
- JavaScript
- Languages
- English
- Mandarin Chinese
- Japanese
- Luxembourgish
Publications
Just-in-time detection of silent security patches.
Tang, Xunzhu, Kisub Kim, Saad Ezzini, Yewei Song, Haoye Tian, Jacques Klein, and Tegawende Bissyande. "Just-in-time detection of silent security patches." ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2025).
CallNavi, A Challenge and Empirical Study on LLM Function Calling and Routing
Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Cedric Lothritz, Saad Ezzini, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé Bissyande, Andrey Boytsov, Ulrick Ble, and Anne Goujon. 2025. CallNavi, A challenge and empirical study on LLM function calling and routing. In Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE ’25), June 17–20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkiye. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3756681.3756975
You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED–Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code
Weiguo Pian, Yinghua Li, Haoye Tian, Tiezhu Sun, Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé. 2025. You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 34, 6, Article 164 (July 2025), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3712187
CodeAgent: Autonomous Communicative Agents for Code Review
Tang, Xunzhu, Kisub Kim, Yewei Song, Cedric Lothritz, Bei Li, Saad Ezzini, Haoye Tian, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé Bissyandé. "CodeAgent: Autonomous Communicative Agents for Code Review." In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 11279-11313. 2024.
LLMs and Prompting for Unit Test Generation: A Large-Scale Evaluation
Ouedraogo, Wendkuuni C., Kader Kabore, Haoye Tian, Yewei Song, Anil Koyuncu, Jacques Klein, David Lo, and Tegawende F. Bissyande. "Llms and prompting for unit test generation: A large-scale evaluation." In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 2464-2465. 2024.
Revisiting Code Similarity Evaluation with Abstract Syntax Tree Edit Distance
Song, Yewei, et al. "Revisiting Code Similarity Evaluation with Abstract Syntax Tree Edit Distance." Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). 2024.
Enhancing Text-to-SQL Translation for Financial System Design
Song, Yewei, Saad Ezzini, Xunzhu Tang, Cedric Lothritz, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé Bissyandé, Andrey Boytsov, Ulrick Ble, and Anne Goujon. "Enhancing text-to-sql translation for financial system design." In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, pp. 252-262. 2024.
Teaching
Service and leadership
- ACL ARR Reviewer