Honors
A selection of research, supervision and teaching awards. The complete list — including over 300 competition awards won by students and the theses they graduated with — is on the Chinese page.
Selected awards
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2021
Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow2021 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICPC 2023
QTC4SO: Automatic Question Title Completion for Stack Overflow2023 - Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists
2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 editions2023–2026 - Most Cited Chinese Researchers, TOP 1% (CNKI)
2024, 20252024–2025 - High-attention research paper of the year, Journal of Software
Cross-project prediction of security bug reports with knowledge graphs2025 - High-attention review paper of the year, Journal of Software
A survey of smart contract vulnerability detection2025 - High-impact paper, Journal of Software
A survey of static software defect prediction (2018)2020 - Top Reviewer Award, Information and Software Technology2020
- Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Software2020
- Outstanding Reviewer, Computer Science
six times2015–2021 - Prototype competition, NASAC 2019 — free-style track, first prize
MAPTest: an automatic platform for testing Java thread-safe classes based on MAP-coverage2019 - Best exhibition award, NASAC 2019 — first prize
Deep-learning-based security defect detection2019 - Best exhibition award, NASAC 2019 — second prize
A survey of deep neural network testing2019 - Outstanding Coach, 8th Mati Cup2026
- Outstanding Instructor, 9th Nowcoder Winter Algorithm Camp2026
- Outstanding Instructor, 20th China Graduate Electronic Design Contest (campus round)2025
- Outstanding Advisor, RAICOM National Finals
2024, 20252024–2025 - Outstanding Advisor, RAICOM Provincial Round2024
- Outstanding Teacher Award, Jiangsu Collegiate Computer Design Contest
2017, 20242017 · 2024 - Advanced Individual, 9th China Graduate Smart City Contest2023
- Outstanding Advisor, Huawei Cup 4th China Graduate AI Innovation Contest2022
- Top 100 Instructor, 13th Lanqiao Cup2022
- Outstanding Advisor, China Collegiate Computing Contest (Network Technology Challenge)
2021, 20222021–2022 - Outstanding Advisor, National Collegiate Data Statistics and Analysis Contest2021
- Outstanding Advisor, 22nd China Robot and AI Competition2020
- Outstanding Advisor, National Green Computing Open-source Labelling Contest2018
- Outstanding Advisor, China Collegiate Software Testing Contest2016
- Outstanding Contribution Award, Nantong University
2022, 20242022 · 2024 - My Favourite Teacher, Nantong University
5th edition2015 - Outstanding Young Professional of Nantong2015
- Outstanding Master's Supervisor, School of AI and CS2025
- Teaching Benchmark, School of AI and CS2025
Student competition results and supervised theses are kept in Chinese on the full list.