Yuchen Ling (凌毓辰)

Research Interests

GUI Testing, GUI Agent, Crowdsourced Testing, Agent Security, Agent Evaluation

Experience

Awards

• 2026 Nanjing University Software Institute "Insta360 Think Bold" Scholarship
• 2026 "China Moutai · Pillars of the Nation" Excellence Talent Program Scholarship for Graduate Students
• 2025 National Scholarship for Graduate Students
• 2024 Nanjing University Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis
• 2024 Jiangsu Province Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis
• 2022–2023 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship
• 2021–2022 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship
• 2020–2021 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship

Publications

1. Security of Agent-Integrated Software: When Human Operations and Agent Actions Coexist [DOI]
   Ding Yang, Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen, Chunrong Fang.
   [Manuscript] arXiv preprint. 2026.
2. Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Junyang Xing, Quan Zhou, Chunrong Fang*, Zhenyu Chen.
   [Manuscript] arXiv preprint. 2026.
3. Towards Secure LLM Agents: Threat Surfaces, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu*, Zhenyu Chen, Chunrong Fang*.
   [Manuscript] arXiv preprint. 2026.
4. Scenario-Guided LLM-based Mobile App GUI Testing [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang*, Quan Zhou, Yi Zhao, Chunyang Chen, Shaomin Zhu, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2026.
   Accepted to present at ASE 2026 Journal-First Track
5. Towards Automated Crowdsourced Testing via Personified-LLM [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang*, Zhenyu Chen, Chunyang Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). 2026.
6. Human Cognitive Pattern Simulation for Crowdsourced Test Report Consistency Detection [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Shuguang Chen, Liuming Wang, Chunrong Fang*, Wenbin Guo, Jia Liu, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2026.
7. LLM-based Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Quan Zhou, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2025.
8. Redefining Crowdsourced Test Report Prioritization: An Innovative Approach with Large Language Model [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Guobin Pan, Jun Wang, Jia Liu*.
   [CCF-B] Information and Software Technology (IST). 2024.
9. Effective, Platform-Independent GUI Testing via Image Embedding and Reinforcement Learning [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Xin Li, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2024.
10. Practical Non-Intrusive GUI Exploration Testing with Visual-based Robotic Arms [DOI]
    Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Mingzhe Du, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
    [CCF-A] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2024.
11. LLM for Test Script Generation and Migration: Challenges, Capabilities, and Opportunities [DOI]
    Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Yuchen Ling, Chentian Wu, Zhenyu Chen.
    [CCF-C] IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS). 2023.

Academic Service

• External Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)
  • Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI): 2025, 2026
  • International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2025, 2026
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): 2025, 2026, 2027
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE): 2025, 2026
  • ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): 2025, 2026
  • ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA): 2025, 2026
• Journal Reviewer
  • Discover Computing (Discov. Comput.)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS)
• Conference Technical/Research Track Shadow PC Member
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): 2027
• Conference Artifact Evaluation Track PC Member
  • ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA): 2026
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE): 2026

Teaching

1. Automated Testing (Software Institute, Nanjing University): Teaching Assistant (2023 2024 2025 2026)
2. Software Engineering and Computing II (Software Institute, Nanjing University): Teaching Assistant (2026)
3. Software Engineering and Computing III (Software Institute, Nanjing University): Teaching Assistant (2024 2025 2026)