Liyan Song (宋丽妍)
Associate Professor
School of Software, Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China
Contact
songly[at]hit[dot]edu[dot]cn
Room 908, New Technology Building,
92 Xida Street, Nangang District, 154001, Harbin, P.R. China
On December 2023, I moved to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) as Associate Professor. On December 2019, I joint Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as Research Assistant Professor. On March 2019, I joint University of Birmingham as Research Fellow.
I obtained my PhD degree from School of Computer Science of University of Birmingham under the supervision of Prof. Xin Yao (co-supervised by Dr. Leandro L. Minku).
Previously, I received my BSc and MSc degrees from School of Mathematics of Harbin Institute of Technology.
Research Interests
My main research interests are machine learning and its applications to predictive software engineering. Currently, I am working on
- data stream learning, verification latency, class imbalance learning, ensemble learning, unsupervised learning, Bayesian regression with small data, and deep learning
- applications of the above to predictive software engineering such as software defect prediction and software effort estimation.
I am also working with evolutionary computation, deep learning, and their applications to (e.g.) image recognition.
Openings:
We are opening to MSc and PhD students working on those topics who are good at coding and/or math.
Education
2012/10-2018/11, PhD in Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Xin Yao.
Thesis: Learning to Cope with Small Noisy Data in Software Effort Estimation
2009/09-2011/7, MSc in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Supervisor: Prof. Chiping Zhang
2005/08-2009/07, BSc in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Supervisor: Prof. Chiping Zhang
Work Experience
2019/12-present, Associate Professor, School of Software, Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Team leader: Prof. Xiaohong Su
2019/12-2023/12, Research Assistant Professor (Master Supervisor), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Team leader: Prof. Xin Yao.
2019/03-2019/11, Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Supervisors: Dr. Leandro L. Minku and Prof. Xin Yao
2015/11-2016/10, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Supervisor: Prof. Haiping Lu (now moved to University of Sheffield, UK)
2012/01-2012/10, Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Supervisor: Prof. Byron Choi
2011/05-2012/01, Internship, Antiy Labs, Harbin, China
Honors & Awards
"Peacock Plan" C-class Talents in Shenzhen City (深圳市“孔雀计划”C类人才),2020
Fully funded PhD Studentship from University of Birmingham, UK, 2012-2015
Outstanding Master Student Awards from Harbin Institute of Technology, China (优秀硕士毕业生), 2011
Outstanding Master Degree Thesis from Harbin Institute of Technology, China (优秀硕士毕业论文), 2011
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Awards from Harbin Institute of Technology, China (优秀本科毕业生), 2009
Outstanding Undergraduate Degree Thesis from Harbin Institute of Technology, China (优秀本科毕业论文), 2009