About

Junwen Yang is Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Chicago. Junwen?s research focuses on automatically detecting and fixing performance and correctness bugs in big data software using a combination of program analysis, software engineering, and database techniques. Her research has led to first-author papers published at top software engineering conferences [FSE?18, ICSE?18, ICSE?19, SPLASH?19, ICSE?20], winning 2019 SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and 2019 SIGPLAN John Vlissides Award, as well as co-authored papers at database conferences [CIKM?18, CIDR?20]. Her research, which found thousands of bugs in popular open-source web applications, raised attention in the open-source community, and has been featured on Morning Paper blog twice, RubyWeekly, and Hacker News. She recently won the Harper Dissertation Fellowship. Junwen has served as a mentor in UChicago ACM-W mentor program and an instructor in compileHer program, teaching computer science and STEM concepts to middle school girls.

Education

University of Chicago

Ph.D. , Computer Science

Class of 2021

Awards & Publications