Yanze Li [CV]
About
I’m a PhD student at UBC working with Alexander J. Summers and Ivan Beschastnikh. I’m interested in programming languages (especially semantics, type theory, and functional programming) and program verification (especially program logics and deductive verification).
Before I started my PhD, I did my Master’s in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, advised by Jeff Huang, and then worked as a Software Engineer at Coderrect Inc. (now Sec3), where I led the development of a static analyzer for concurrent programs based on LLVM.
I obtained my B.Eng. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), where I studied how to produce and transmit electricity.
Publication
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[ ICSE’22 ] PUS: A Fast and Highly Efficient Solver for Inclusion-based Pointer Analysis
Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Bradley Swain, Jeff Huang
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
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[ Correctness’21 ] OpenRace: An Open Source Framework for Statically Detecting Data Races
Bradley Swain, Jeff Huang, Bozhen Liu, Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Addison Crump, Rohan Khera
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[ PLDI’21 ] When Threads Meet Events: Efficient and Precise Static Race Detection with Origins
Bozhen Liu, Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Chia-Che Tsai, Dilma Da Silva, Jeff Huang [ PDF ] -
[ SC’20 ] OMPRacer: A Scalable and Precise Static Race Detector for OpenMP Programs
Bradley Swain, Yanze Li, Peiming Liu, Ignacio Laguna, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Jeff Huang
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[ ICSE’19 ] (Demo Track) SWORD: A Scalable Whole Program Race Detector for Java
Yanze Li, Bozhen Liu, Jeff Huang
[ PDF ] [ code ]
Working
- AWS, S3 Automated Reasoning Group, Applied Scientist Intern, 2024 fall
I worked on a randomized concurrency testing tool called Shuttle. I developed a lightweight library for annotating large codebases to measure customized state coverage when running Shuttle. I then worked on applying Reinforcement Learning to improve state coverage when doing concurrency testing.
Teaching
CPSC 539S - Program Verifiers and Program Verification, TA, 2023F
CPSC 416 - Distributed Systems, TA, 2022S
CPSC 410 - Advanced Software Engineering, TA, 2021F, 2022F, 2024S
Services
SIGPLAN-M, Operations Team, 2020.8-2022.11
Sub-reviewer: [ICSE’23] [ASE’22] [OOPSLA’20] [PLDI’19] [OOPSLA’19] [FSE’19] [ICSE’19] [TSE’18]
Misc
I was often asked how to pronounce my first name correctly. It contains 2 Chinese characters Yan(彦) and Ze(泽) and google translate gives a very accurate pronunciation in Mandarin (link). However, I’m happy with any reasonable pronunciation, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to pronounce it “right”! Most of my friends read it as “Yan-zee” in English.
I’m a huge fan of video games (although I don’t have enough time playing them since I started doing research). I love games with good story-telling. I hope video games can be a main stream for story-telling someday.
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