Postdoctoral Researcher at Singapore Management University

I’m Chengran Yang (杨诚然), a Postdoctoral Researcher at Singapore Management University (SMU), working with Prof. David Lo (ACM & IEEE Fellow). I received my Ph.D. from SMU under supervision of Prof. David Lo in March 2026. My research centers on LLM Post-Training (SFT / RL) for Code Intelligence and Software Security. I work on making Code LLMs not just generate code, but generate code that is correct, efficient, secure, and well-reasoned — bridging the gap between raw generative capability and production-grade software quality. Concretely, my work spans two threads:

I have published 20+ papers at top-tier SE venues (ICSE, ASE, FSE, TSE, TOSEM, etc.), including an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2026 as first author. Prior to SMU, I received my B.Eng. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and interned at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Jianfeng Zhan.

🔭 I’m currently exploring agentic post-training for code security and code testing — if these topics interest you too, feel free to reach out for collaboration!

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