Hi, I’m Hengchen Yuan

About

Hi, I am Hengchen Yuan (袁恒宸), I’m a third-year PhD student at University of Texas at Austin and advised by professor August Shi. Previously I got my Bachelor’s degree from SUSTech. My research interest lies on software testing and programing analyis.

Publications

Optimizing Mutation Testing through Mutant Grouping
Hengchen Yuan, Jiefang Lin, August Shi
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), OOPSLA 2026
(OOPSLA 2026), Oct 2026. [paper] [code]

Test Scheduling Across Heterogeneous Machines While Balancing Running Time, Price, and Flakiness
Hengchen Yuan, Jiefang Lin, Wing Lam, August Shi
The 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
(ICSME 2024), Oct 2024. [paper] [code]

Third-party Library Dependency for Large-scale SCA in the C/C++ Ecosystem: How Far Are We?
Ling Jiang, Hengchen Yuan, Qiyi Tang, Sen Nie, Shi Wu, Yuqun Zhang
The 32nd International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
(ISSTA 2023), July 2023. [paper] [code]

Evaluating and Improving Hybrid Fuzzing
Ling jiang, Hengchen Yuan, Mingyuan Wu, Lingming Zhang, Yuqun Zhang
The 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2023), May 2023. [paper] [code]