I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU), under the supervision of Xiaoyu Sun, Zhenchang Xing, and Alwen Tiu. Before that, I obtained my bachelor degree from Jiangxi Normal University. My research focuses on Intelligent Software Engineering and Knowledge Graphs.

I am open to collaboration and welcomes inquiries from individuals with overlapping research interests. Please feel free to reach out if you believe our research interests align.

🔥 News

  • [2026-05-01] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ICML 2026!
  • [2025-12-01] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ICSE 2026 Demos!
  • [2025-10-08] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to TOSEM 2025!
  • [2025-09-27] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ASE 2025!
  • [2024-10-14] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to TSE 2024!!
  • [2024-07-19] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to TKDE 2024!!
  • [2023-12-15] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ICSE 2024!!
  • [2023-04-27] 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to TOSEM 2023!!

📝 Publications (* denotes co-first author)

Published Papers

  • VPD-100K: Towards Generalizable and Fine-grained Visual Privacy Protection
    Xiaobin Hu, Enpu zuo, Lanping Hu, Kaiwen Yang, Dianshu Liao, Tianyi Zhang, Bo Yin, Yinsi Zhou, Shidong Pan, Xiaoyu Sun. ICML-2026 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • JUnitGenie: A Framework for Path-Sensitive Unit Test Generation with Large Language Models
    Dianshu Liao, Xin Yin, Shidong Pan, Chao Ni, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun. ICSE-2026-Demos (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • A Comparative Study of Android Performance Issues in Real-world Applications and Literature
    Dianshu Liao, Shidong Pan, Siyuan Yang, Yanjie Zhao, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun. TOSEM-2025 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • Navigating the Labyrinth: Path-Sensitive Unit Test Generation with Large Language Models
    Dianshu Liao, Xin Yin, Shidong Pan, Chao Ni, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun. ASE-2025 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • A³-CodGen: A Repository-Level Code Generation Framework for Code Reuse with Local-Aware, Global-Aware, and Third-Party-Library-Aware
    Dianshu Liao, Shidong Pan, Xiaoyu Sun, Xiaoxue Ren, Qing Huang, Zhenchang Xing, Huan Jin, Qinying Li. TSE-2024 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • SE Factual Knowledge in Frozen Giant Code Model: A Study on FQN and its Retrieval
    Qing Huang*, Dianshu Liao*, Zhenchang Xing, Zhiqiang Yuan, Qinghua Lu, Xiwei Xu, Jiaxing Lu. TKDE-2024 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • Enhancing Exploratory Testing by Large Language Model and Knowledge Graph
    Yanqi Su, Dianshu Liao, Zhenchang Xing, Qing Huang, Mulong Xie, Qinghua Lu, Xiwei Xu. ICSE-2024 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

  • Semantic-Enriched Code Knowledge Graph to Reveal Unknowns in Smart Contract Code Reuse
    Qing Huang*, Dianshu Liao*, Zhenchang Xing, Zhengkang Zuo, Changjing Wang, Xin Xia. TOSEM-2023 (CCF-A, Core-A*)

Pre-prints

  • A Solution toward Transparent and Practical AI Regulation: Privacy Nutrition Labels for Open-source Generative AI-based Applications
    Meixue Si, Shidong Pan, Dianshu Liao, Xiaoyu Sun, Zhen Tao, Wenchang Shi, Zhenchang Xing. Pre-print

📖 Educations

  • 2024 - Present, Ph.D. student, Australian National University.
  • 2019 - 2023, Bachelor, Jangxi Normal University.

💼 Academic Services

  • Program Committee Member, ICSE 2025 Artifact Evaluation Track
  • Reviewer, Automated Software Engineering Journal

📚 Teaching

Tutor

  • Australian National University, 2025S1, COMP4130, Managing Software Quality and Process, by Xiaoyu Sun