I will join the College of Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics at Australian National University as a Lecturer, starting in Fall 2023. I obtained my PhD degree at Monash University under the supervision of Li. Li and John Grundy. My research field interests mainly lie in the field of Mobile Software Engineering (i.e., Mobile Security and quality assurance) and Intelligent Software Engineering (SE4AI, AI4SE), under which I am broadly interested in applying static code analysis, dynamic program testing, and natural language processing techniques to strengthen the security and reliability of software systems.

Xiaoyu's research has been published in top-tier conferences and journals including ICSE, ASE, TSE, TOSEM, ISSRE, MSR, IST.

As a Female in CS
As a female studying computer science, I am always committed to encourage more and more women involved in computer science or other STEM fields.

News

• [2023-05-30] I am serving on the A-mobile 2023 program committee!
• [2023-05-19] I am serving on the PRDC 2023 program committee!
• [2023-04-07] Our paper entitled "Taming Android Fragmentation through Lightweight Crowdsourced Testing" was accepted to TSE 2023 !!
• [2023-03-21] Attended the Women in STEMM Leadership Summit!
• [2023-01-31] Become a reviewer for Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
• [2022-12-01] Selected as a Junior PC Member at MSR2023
• [2022-11-24] Gave an invited talk titled "Demystifying Security and Compatibility Issues in Android apps" at Macquarie University.
• [2022-10-13] Our paper entitled "Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android apps" was accepted to TOSEM 2022.

Selected Publications

TSE	Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Yonghui Liu, John Grundy and Li Li, Taming Android Fragmentation through Lightweight Crowdsourced Testing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2023, 2023 [pdf]
TOSEM	Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Li Li, Haipeng Cai, John Grundy, Jordan Samhi, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and Jacques Klein, Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android apps, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2022, 2022 [pdf] [bib]
ASE	Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Yanjie Zhao, Pei Liu, John Grundy and Li Li, Mining Android API Usage to Generate Unit Test Cases for Pinpointing Compatibility Issues, The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2022), 2022  [pdf]  [bib]
A-Mobile	Pei Liu, Xiaoyu Sun, Yanjie Zhao, Yonghui Liu, John Grundy, and Li Li, A First Look at CI/CD Adoptions in Open-Source Android Apps, The 5th International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis (A-Mobile 2022), 2022  [pdf]  [bib]
ICSE	Jordan Samhi, Jun Gao, Nadia Daoudi, Pierre Graux, Henri Hoyez, Xiaoyu Sun, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and Jacques Klein, JuCify: a step towards Android code unification for enhanced static analysis, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), 2022  [pdf]  [bib]
ICSE-Demo	Yanjie Zhao, Li Li, Xiaoyu Sun, Pei Liu, John Grundy, Code Implementation Recommendation for Android GUI Components, The 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, Demonstrations Track (ICSE 2022), 2022 [pdf] [bib]
ASEW	Yonghui Liu, Li Li, Pingfan Kong, Xiaoyu Sun and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, A First Look at Security Risks of Android TV Apps, The 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW 2021). 2021  [pdf]  [bib]
IST	Yanjie Zhao, Li Li, Xiaoyu Sun, Pei Liu, and John Grundy, Icon2Code: Recommending code implementations for android GUI components, Information and Software Technology (IST) 2021. 2021  [pdf]  [bib]
TOSEM	Xiaoyu Sun, Li Li, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Damien Octeau, and John Grundy, Taming reflection: An essential step toward whole-program analysis of android apps, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2021. 2021  [pdf]  [bib]
ISSRE	Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Kui Liu, Sheng Wen, Li Li, and John Grundy, Characterizing Sensor Leaks in Android Apps, The IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2021. 2021  [pdf]  [bib]
MSR	Pei Liu, Li Li, Yanjie Zhao, Xiaoyu Sun, and John Grundy, Androzooopen: Collecting large-scale open source android apps for the research community, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2020. 2020  [pdf]  [bib]