I am a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering in Concordia University, supervised by Dr. Jinqiu Yang.

My current research focuses on the safety and security of autonomous driving systems and LLM-based agentic systems. My past research focused on automated program repairing and software testing.

Education

  • Ph.D. student in Software Engineering, Concordia University, 2020 - Present
  • M.A.Sc student in Software Engineering, Concordia University, 2019 - 2020, (fast-tracked to the Ph.D. program in 2020)
  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2014 - 2018

Publications

arXiv  Evaluating and Improving the Robustness of LiDAR-based Localization and Mapping. Bo Yang, Tri Minh Triet Pham, Jinqiu Yang.

IV-24  SITAR: Evaluating the Adversarial Robustness of Traffic Light Recognition in Level-4 Autonomous Driving. Bo Yang, Jinqiu Yang. In the proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)

FSE-21  How Disabled Tests Manifest in Test Maintainability Challenges? Dong Jae Kim*, Bo Yang*, Jinqiu Yang, and Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen. (*The first two authors contributed equally to this paper.) In the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering

IBF-20  Exploring the Differences between Plausible and Correct Patches at Fine-Grained Level. Bo Yang, Jinqiu Yang. In the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Bug Fixing, 2020

Services

Program Committee

  • 2025: Symposium on Software Engineering Technologies & Applications (SETA) at COMPSAC 2025

Conference Review

  • 2025: IV, IROS, AAAI
  • 2024: ITSC

Journal Review

  • 2024: Journal of Testing and Evaluation (JTE)

Awards

  • Concordia Merit Scholarship, 2020, 2021
  • Concordia International Tuition Award of Excellence, 2021
  • Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award, 2020, 2024

Experience

  • Mitacs Internship at Ericsson (Montreal), 2024 - 2025
  • TA in Concordia University
    • SOEN 691 Software Debugging and Repair, Fall 2025
    • SOEN 390 Software Engineering Team Design Project, Winter 2024
    • SOEN 490 Capstone Design Project, Fall 2022, Winter 2023
    • SOEN 341 Software Process, Fall 2021, Winter 2022
    • COMP 248 Object-Oriented Programming I, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2025
  • Software engineer at 老柚多汁互联网信息服务有限公司, 2018 - 2019
  • Internship at Red Hat (Beijing) Customer Portal Labs, 2017 - 2018

Language

中文, English, un peu Français (A2)