Huanting Wang

Research Fellow

Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate

University of Leeds

王焕廷

Huanting Wang

I am a Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science at the University of Leeds. During my Ph.D. studies, I am fortunate to receive guidance from Zheng Wang at the Intelligent Systems Software Lab.

My Academic Curriculum Vitae (Jan 2025) is available for download from here.

My research subject is precise, automated and robust machine learning for program modeling, which aims to make software development easier so that every programmer can easily write, maintain, and optimize software.

My research interests include:

Code optimisation: a) Bridging the gap between machine learning (including deep and reinforcement learning) and compiler programmers, enabling developers to easily integrate machine learning into compilers. b) Enhancing performance of ML models in the deployed environment, allowing the deployed model to achieve performance similar to that attained during the training phase.
Software security: Applying machine learning and code analysis techniques to identify software bugs and vulnerabilities. My recent work has successfully detected over 100 bugs and more than 40 CVEs in real-life projects.

Selected Publications

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[CGO '25] Enhancing Deployment-time Predictive Model Robustness for Code Analysis and Optimization
Huanting Wang, Patrick Lenihan, Zheng Wang
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2025) (~~Artificate Evaluated!~~) , 2025.

Premier ACM Conference in Compiler Optimization (CORE A)

Distingushed Paper Award Preprint Code and dataset

[ICSE '24] Combining Structured Static Code Information and Dynamic Symbolic Traces for Software Vulnerability Prediction
Huanting Wang, Zhanyong Tang, Shin Hwei Tan, Jie Wang, Yuzhe Liu, Hejun Fang, Chunwei Xia, Zheng Wang
The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) (~~Artificate Evaluated!~~) , 2024.

Premier ACM Conference in Software Engineering (CORE A*) Preprint Code and dataset

[CC '22] Automating Reinforcement Learning Architecture Design for Code Optimization
Huanting Wang, Zhanyong Tang, Cheng Zhang, Jiaqi Zhao, Chris Cummins, Hugh Leather, Zheng Wang
The 31th ACM SIGPLAN 2022 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2022) (~~Artificate Evaluated!~~) , 2022.

Premier ACM Conference in Compiler Construction (CORE A) Preprint Code and dataset

[TIFS '21] Combining Graph-Based Learning With Automated Data Collection for Code Vulnerability Detection
Huanting Wang, Guixin Ye, Zhanyong Tang, Shin Hwei Tan, Songfang Huang, Dingyi Fang,Yansong Feng,Lizhong Bian, Zheng Wang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , 2021. Flagship Journal in Computer Security (CORE A*)

ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers . This work was featured on several online media (Sohu, Tencent and China Youth Daily). Preprint Code and dataset

Awards

CGO 2025 Distingshed Paper Award
CGO 2025 Travel Grant
AI SuperConnector Award (£20K funded by AISC and $25K funded by Google Cloud)
MITCAS Globalink Research Award ($6K)
School of Computing's 3.5-Year Full Scholarship (Awarded to Only One International Students in 2021)
The First-class Scholarship of Northwest University, Top 5% (2018-2019)

Projects

AI4Secure: AI Empowered Automated Software Bug Detection Services

AI SuperConnector, ECR, 2024 - 2025

An Open-Source Vulnerability Discovery Method Combining Historical Code Commits and Pre-trained Models

Huawei 2012 labs, Collaborative Project Team Member, 2022 - 2023

Automating Reinforcement Learning Architecture Design for Code Optimization

Meta AI Research & University of Leeds & Northwest University, Collaborative Project Team Member, 2020 - 2021

Affordable Billion-Scale Pre-trained NLP Models' Training

Alibaba Damo Academy, Research Intern, July 2020 - December 2020

Machine Learning-based Code Security Detection

Ant Group, Collaborative Project Team Member, 2019 - 2020

Services

Reviewer for Science of Computer Programming, AAPG 2025, ICAC 24, MSN 24, CSUR, FCS.
Artifact Evaluation Committee(AEC) member: CGO 25, ISSTA 24, CCS 24.

Teaching Assistant

September 2022 - December 2022, COMP1211 Computer Architecture.
September 2023 - December 2023, COMP1211 Computer Architecture.

Internship

July 2021 - December 2021, Algorithm Engineer Intern, ALIBABA DAMO ACADEMY.
2019 - 2020, Software Engineer (Part Time), Ant Group.

Biography

December 2024 - Present, Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, U.K.
October 2021 - Present, Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, University of Leeds, U.K.
September 2018 - June 2021, Master, Software Engineering, Northwest University, China.
September 2014 - June 2018, Undergraduate, Software Engineering, Chang'an University, China.

Huanting Wang

Research Fellow

Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate

University of Leeds

王焕廷

Huanting Wang

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