Shuang Liu 刘爽
School of Information, Renmin University of China
Shuang Liu is a Wu Yuzhang Young Scholar, Ph.D. supervisor, and associate professor at Renmin University of China. She is an executive committee member of the CCF Technical Committees on System Software and on Databases, and received her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on complex-system testing, database testing, large-model testing, and related directions. She has published more than 70 papers in international venues such as PVLDB, ICDE, ISSTA, ESEC/FSE, ASE, ICSE, FM, USENIX Security, TSE, TOSEM, and the Journal of Software (including more than 30 CCF-A papers), and received the ESEC/FSE 2020 (CCF-A) Best Paper Award. She teaches several core computer-science courses, including Compiler Principles (Honors Course) and Software Engineering, and serves on multiple conference program committees and as a journal reviewer. She leads multiple funded projects, including an NSFC General Program grant, a subproject of a national science and technology major program, an NSFC Youth Program grant, and the CCF-Ant Joint Research Fund.
Recruiting 2027 Graduate Students
Recruiting 2027-entry full-time Ph.D., full-time Doctor of Engineering, and academic / professional Master's students. Looking for students interested in building foundational software testing systems, coding agents, and AI infrastructure.
Working Experience
- Renmin University of China January 2024 - Present
Associate Professor · Ph.D. Supervisor
- Tianjin University October 2017-December 2023
Associate Professor
- Singapore Institute of Technology June 2016 - September 2017
Lecturer
- Singapore University of Technology and Design August 2015 - May 2016
Postdoc Research Fellow
- Singapore University of Technology and Design August 2014 - July 2015
Research Assistant
Education
- National University of Singapore August 2010 - June 2015
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Software Testing and Verification
- Renmin University of China September 2006 - July 2010
B.Eng.
Professional Services
- Publication Chair
ICPADS 2019; NDBC 2026
- Program Committee Member
ICECCS 2018, ICECCS 2019, ICFEM 2019, SETTA 2019, ICECCS 2020, ICECCS 2022, ASE Student Research Competition 2022, ICSE 2023 CORE, SETTA 2023, Internetware 2026, SETTA 2026, and ICDE 2026
- Project Advisor, OpenTeleDB Database Open-Source Community Advisory Board 2025 - 2026
- Reviewer of the following journals: TOSEM, ISSE, Computing and Informatics, Journal of Systems and Software
- Reviewer of the following conferences: ICSE, TASE, ICFEM, APSEC, SEFM, ISORC, FTSCS, ACM SAC, ACOMP, SVT, CAI
Projects
- Testing Methods for Silent Bugs in NewSQL Databases January 2025 - December 2028
National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program · Principal Investigator
- Trusted Verification for SGX-based Cloud-Native HTAP Databases September 2024 - August 2025
CCF-Ant Research Fund · Principal Investigator
- Key Technologies for Material-Data Aggregation, Integration, and Visualization July 2025 - June 2028
National Science and Technology Major Project, subproject · Principal Investigator
- Transaction Dependency Graph-based OLTP Database Testing September 2024 - August 2027
Renmin University of China Research Fund · Principal Investigator
- Adaptive Storage-Scheme Selection for Cloud-Native HTAP Databases December 2025 - December 2026
Tencent Cloud · Principal Investigator
- Automatic Interpretation and Presentation of Android Privacy Policies January 2019 - December 2021
National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Program · Principal Investigator
- Key Technologies for Natural-Language Understanding in Hisense Cloud Brain May 2020 - December 2020
Industry-sponsored project · Principal Investigator
- Model Anomaly Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems with Missing Anomaly Information January 2019 - December 2021
Tianjin University Independent Innovation Fund · Principal Investigator
- Key Technologies for Functional Testing of Database Management Systems August 2022 - July 2024
Open Project of the Key Laboratory of High-Confidence Software Technologies · Principal Investigator
Patents
- 刘爽,窦淑洁
一种基于组合语义的机器翻译软件缺陷检测方法
- 刘爽,冷林珊,田承霖2024.05.07 · CN113986345B
一种预训练增强的代码克隆检测方法
- 刘爽,涂钰2024.04.30 · CN11563087B
一种基于编码特征与统计行为特征融合的 DNS 隧道检测方法
- 刘爽,杨怀伟2022.04.19 · CN113051607B
一种隐私政策信息提取方法
- 刘爽,陈冠宏2022.11.01 · CN113434858B
基于反汇编代码结构和语义特征的恶意软件家族分类方法
- 陈俊洁,闫明,王赞,刘爽,张栋迪2023.04.18 · CN112183749B
基于有导向模型变异的深度学习库测试方法
- 沐燕舟,王赞,刘爽2022.05.17 · CN113468047B
基于启发式规则的并发式自适应随机测试方法
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Advisor Award, National Student Computer System Capability Competition — Compiler Design Track2025
- Wu Yuzhang Young Scholar, Renmin University of China2024
- CCF Prototype System Competition Award (SANER 2022)2022
Natural Test Generation for Precise Testing of Question Answering Software
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Tianjin University2021
- Shen Zhikang Teaching Award, Tianjin University2021
- Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Software2020
- ACM SigSoft Distinguish Paper Award 2020
ACM
- MAPTest: An Automatic Platform for Testing Java Thread-Safe Classes based on MAP-Coverage.First Prize of Prototype Competition 2019.11.24
China Computer Federation
- Second Prize of Best Exhibition Award 2019.11.24
China Computer Federation
- ACM TOSEM Distinguished Referee 2017 - 2018
ACM TOSEM Outstanding Jury
- ACM TOSEM Distinguished Referee 2015 - 2016
ACM TOSEM Outstanding Jury
- National University of Singapore Scholarship2010 - 2014
- National Scholarship2009
- National Scholarship2008
Selected Publications
- [ICSE 2026] DBcover: A White-box SQL Test Generation Framework for Coverage Improvement [pdf] (CCF-A)
Yankai Rong, Shuang Liu*, Jinhao Dong, Qiang Yin, Wei Lu, Jianhua Wang, and Xiaoyong Du
- [ICDE 2026] Doux: Decoupling Values from Keys for Real-Time Analytics [link] (CCF-A)
Shiming Yang, Yu Luo, Shuang Liu*, Wei Lu, Kuien Liu, Yuxing Chen, Anqun Pan, Lixiong Zheng, and Xiaoyong Du
- [ASE 2026] DBRepro: Automated Database Synthesis via a Hybrid Constraint-Solving Approach for Reproducing Slow Queries [pdf] (CCF-A)
Zhaoyang Zhang, Shuang Liu*, Dengfeng Xu, Wei Lu, Jianquan Leng, Sheng Du, and Xiaoyong Du
- [ICDE 2026] DBdoctor: A Fine-grained and Non-intrusive Performance Diagnosis Platform for Databases [link] (CCF-A)
Xinyue Shi, Quanqi Xin, Zhengjin Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Haoqiong Bian, Wei Lu, Qiyu Zhuang, Shuang Liu, Jikuan Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Yunpeng Chai, and Xiaoyong Du
- [ESEC/FSE 2025] De-duplicating Silent Compiler Bugs via Deep Semantic Representation [paper] (CCF-A)
Junjie Chen, Xingyu Fan, Chen Yang, Shuang Liu, and Jun Sun
- [PVLDB 2025] TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection [pdf] (CCF-A)
Qiyu Zhuang, Wei Lu, Shuang Liu, Yuxing Chen, Xinyue Shi, Zhanhao Zhao, Yipeng Sun, Anqun Pan, and Xiaoyong Du
- [PVLDB 2025] Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases [pdf] (CCF-A)
Chunyue Huang, Shuang Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Wenhao Li, Wei Lu, and Xiaoyong Du
- [ICDE 2025] GeoTP: Latency-aware Geo-Distributed Transaction Processing in Database Middlewares [pdf] (CCF-A)
Qiyu Zhuang, Xinyue Shi, Shuang Liu, Wei Lu, Zhanhao Zhao, Yuxing Chen, Tong Li, Anqun Pan, and Xiaoyong Du
- [PVLDB’25] Semantic Conformance Testing of Relational DBMS . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shuang Liu, Chenglin Tian, Jun Sun, Ruifeng Wang, Wei Lu, Yongxin Zhao, Yinxing Xue, Junjie Wang and Xiaoyong Du
In. The 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
- [ISSTA’24] Testing Graph Databases with Graph-State Persistence Oracle . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shuang Liu, Junhao Lan, Xiaoning Du, Jiyuan Li, Wei Lu, Jiajun Jiang and Xiaoyong Du
In. The 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
- [ISSTA’24] Fuzzing MLIR Compiler Infrastructure via Operation Dependency Analysis . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Chenyao Suo, Junjie Chen, Shuang Liu, Jiajun Jiang, Yingquan Zhao, Jianrong Wang
In. The 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
- [USENIX’23] FuzzJIT: Oracle-Enhanced Fuzzing for JavaScript Engine JIT Compiler . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Junjie Wang, Zhiyi Zhang, Shuang Liu*, Xiaoning Du, Junjie Chen
In. 32th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2023)
- [ICSE’23] DRFuzz: A Regression Fuzzing Framework for Deep Learning Systems . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Hanmo You, Zan Wang, Junjie Chen, Shuang Liu, Shuochuan Li
In. 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023)
- [ASE’23] MLIRSmith: Random Program Generation for Fuzzing MLIR Compiler Infrastructure . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Haoyu Wang, Junjie Chen*, Chunyue Xie, Shuang Liu, Zan Wang, Qingchao Shen, Yingquan Zhao
In. 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023)
- [Findings of ACL’23] A Pilot Study on Dialogue-Level Dependency Parsing for Chinese . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Gongyao Jiang, Shuang Liu, Meishan Zhang*, Min Zhang
In. Findings of ACL 2023
- [Internetware '23] An Empirical Study on AST-level mutation-based fuzzing techniques for JavaScript Engines . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Song Tang, Shuang Liu*, Junjie Wang, Xiangwei Zhang
In. Internetware '23: Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on InternetwareAugust 2023Pages 216–226.
- [ICECCS’22] Reducing Malware labeling Efforts Through Efficient Prototype Selection . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Guanhong Chen, Shuang Liu*
In. 2022 26th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) (pp.17-22)
- [ASE'22] Natural test generation for precise testing of question answering software . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Qingchao Shen, Junjie Chen, Jie M Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Shuang Liu, Menghan Tian
In. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 1-12)
- [WWW'21] Have You been Properly Notified? Automatic Compliance Analysis of Privacy Policy Text with GDPR Article 13 . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shuang Liu, Baiyang Zhao, Renjie Guo, Guozhu Meng, Fan Zhang, Meishan Zhang*
In. The 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). pp2154-2164.
- [FSE'21] A comprehensive study on learning-based PE malware family classification methods . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Yixuan Ma, Shuang Liu*, Jiajun Jiang, Guanhong Chen, Keqiu Li
In. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021) (pp. 1314-1325)
- [ASE’21] FIGCPS: Effective failure-inducing input generation for cyber-physical systems with deep reinforcement learning . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shaohua Zhang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Yuqi Chen, Wenzhi Huang, Jinyi Liu, Jian Liu, Jianye Hao
In. 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (pp. 555-567)
- [QRS’21] HARS: Heuristic-Enhanced Adaptive Randomized Scheduling for Concurrency Testing . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Yanzhou Mu, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu*, and Xiang Chen
In. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2021)
- [Internetware '20] What Makes Open Source Software Projects Impactful: A Data-Driven Approach . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Huaiwei Yang, Shuang Liu, Lin Gui, Yongxin Zhao*, Jun Sun, Junjie Chen
In. Internetware '20: Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Symposium on InternetwareNovember 2020Pages 126–135
- [ICECCS '20] IFIX: fixing concurrency bugs while they are introduced . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Zan Wang, Haichi Wang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Haoyu Wang, Junjie Chen
In. 2020 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, 2020, pp. 155-164
- [ICECCS '20] An empirical study on correlation between coverage and robustness for deep neural networks . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Yizhen Dong, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang*, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianye Hao, Xinyu Wang*, Li Wang, Jinsong Dong, Ting Dai
In. 2020 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, 2020, pp. 73-82
- [FSE '21] Deep learning library testing via effective model generation . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Zan Wang, Ming Yan, Junjie Chen*, Shuang Liu, Dongdi Zhang
In. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software EngineeringNovember 2020Pages 788–799
- [ASE’20] Towards generating thread-safe classes automatically . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Haichi Wang, Zan Wang, Jun Sun, Shuang Liu*, Ayesha Sadiq, Yuan-Fang Li
In. 2020 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE): Virtual, September 21-25: Proceedings. 943-955.
- [BIBM '20] SE-ECGNet: A multi-scale deep residual network with squeeze-and-excitation module for ECG signal classification . [pdf] (CCF-B)
Haozhen Zhang, Wei Zhao, Shuang Liu*
In. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (pp. 2685-2691)
- [FSE'20] Deep Learning Library Testing via Effective Model Generation. (CCF-A)
Zan Wang, Ming Yan, Junjie Chen, Shuang Liu, Dongdi Zhang
In. The 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering , November 8-13, 2020, pages to appear, Sacramento, California, United States
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
- [ICECCS'20] iFix: Fixing Concurrency Bugs While They Are Introduced. (CCF-C)
Zan Wang, Haichi Wang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Haoyu Wang, Junjie Chen
In. The 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, October 28-31, 2020, pages to appear, Singapore
- [ICECCS'20] An Empirical Study on Correlation between Coverage and Robustness for Deep Neural Networks. (CCF-C)
Yizhen Dong, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianye Hao, Xinyu Wang, Li Wang, Jin Song Dong and Ting Dai
In. The 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, October 28-31, 2020, pages to appear, Singapore
- [APSEC'19] Towards a Formal Approach to Defining and Computing the Complexity of Component Based Software . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Yongxin Zhao, Xiujuan Zhang, Ling Shi, Gan Zeng, Feng Sheng, Shuang Liu
In. The 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) (pp. 331-338). IEEE
- [ICECCS'19] Adaptive randomized scheduling for concurrency bug detection . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Zan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Yingquan Zhao
In.2019 24th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Guangzhou, China, 2019, pp. 124-133
- [ICECCS'20] An Empirical Study on Correlation between Coverage and Robustness for Deep Neural Networks . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Yizhen Dong, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianye Hao, Xinyu Wang, Li Wang, Jinsong Dong, Dai Ting
In 2020 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, 2020, pp. 73-82
- [ASE'19] MAP-Coverage: a Novel Coverage Criteria for Testing Thread-Safe Classes . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Zan Wang, Yingquan Zhao, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Xiang Chen, Huarui Lin
In. The 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (pp. 722-734). IEEE
- [ICECCS'19] Adaptive Randomized Scheduling for Concurrency Bug Detection . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Zan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Yingquan Zhao
In. The 24th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) (pp. 124-133). IEEE
- [ICSME'19] TECCD: A Tree Embedding Approach for Code Clone Detection . [pdf] (CCF-B)
Yi Gao, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu*, Lin Yang, Wei Sang, Yuanfang Cai
In. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) (pp. 145-156). IEEE
- [APSEC'19] Towards a Formal Approach to Defining and Computing the Complexity of Component Based Software . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Yongxin Zhao, Xiujuan Zhang, Ling Shi, Gan Zeng, Feng Sheng, Shuang Liu
In. 2019 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2019, pp. 331-338
- [BIBM'18] Attention-Based Recurrent Multi-Channel Neural Network for Influenza Epidemic Prediction . [pdf] (CCF-B)
Bofeng Fu, Yaodong Yang, Yu Ma, Jianye Hao, Siqi Chen, Shuang Liu, Tiegang Li, Zhenyu Liao, Xianglei Zhu
In. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp. 1245-1248). IEEE
- [ASE'18] PFix: fixing concurrency bugs based on memory access patterns . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Huarui Lin, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu*, Jun Sun, Dongdi Zhang, Guangning Wei
In. The 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 589-600)
- [FM'18] Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Takumi Akazaki, Shuang Liu, Yoriyuki Yamagata,Yihai Duan and Jianye Hao
In. The International Symposium on Formal Methods (pp. 456-465). Springer, Cham
- [ICECCS'17] Towards solving decision making problems using probabilistic model checking . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Ling Shi, Shuang Liu, Jianye Hao, Jun Yang Koh, Zhe Hou, Jin Song Dong
In. The 22nd International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) (pp. 150-153). IEEE
- [ICSE'17] JSFox: Integrating Static and Dynamic Type Analysis of JavaScript Programs . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Tian Huat Tan, Yinxing Xue, Manman Chen, Shuang Liu, Yi Yu, Jun Sun
In. 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE-C) (pp. 256-258). IEEE
- [ICECCS'16] Improving Quality of Use Case Documents through Learning and User Interaction . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Hao Xiao, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Jin Song Dong, Xinyu Wang
In. 2016 21st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) (pp. 101-110). IEEE
- [ICECCS'16] Towards Using Concurrent Java API Correctly . [pdf] (CCF-C)
Shuang Liu, Guangdong Bai, Jun Sun, Jinsong Dong
In. 2016 21st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) (pp. 219-222). IEEE
- [ASE'14] Automatic Early Defects Detection in Use Case Documents . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Yue Zhang, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Jin Song Dong, Xinyu Wang
In. Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering (pp.785-790)
- [FSE'13] USMMC: A Self-Contained Model Checker for UML State Machines . [pdf] (CCF-A)
Shuang Liu, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Manchun Zheng, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Jin Song Dong
In. Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (pp. 623-626)
- [IFM'13] A Formal Semantics for the Complete Syntax of UML State Machines with Communications . [pdf]
Shuang Liu, Yang Liu, Etienne André, Christine Choppy, Jun Sun, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Jin Song Dong
In. International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (pp. 331-346). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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Teaching
- Compiler Principles (Honors Course)
Core undergraduate course
- Software Engineering
Core undergraduate course