Yanze Li [CV]

About

I’m a third-year PhD student at UBC working with Alexander J. Summers and Ivan Beschastnikh. I’m interested in programming languages, program verification, and type theory.

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

  1. [ 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
    [ PDF ]

  2. [ 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
    [ PDF ] [ code ]

  3. [ 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 ]

  4. [ 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
    [ PDF ] [ artifact ]

  5. [ ICSE’19 ] (Demo Track) SWORD: A Scalable Whole Program Race Detector for Java
    Yanze Li, Bozhen Liu, Jeff Huang
    [ PDF ] [ code ]

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 you can find its pronunciation in Mandarin here. Nevertheless, I’m happy with any reasonable pronunciation!

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 sincerely hope video games can be a main stream for story-telling someday.

Contact

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