Liyan Song (宋丽妍）

Short Bio

In December 2023, I moved to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) as Associate Professor. In December 2019, I joined Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as Research Assistant Professor. In March 2019, I joined the University of Birmingham as Research Fellow. I obtained my PhD degree from School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Chair Prof. Xin Yao (co-advised by Dr. Leandro L. Minku). Previously, I received my BSc and MSc degrees from School of Mathematics of Harbin Institute of Technology.

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Research Interests

• data stream learning, verification latency, class imbalance learning, label noise, ensemble learning, unsupervised learning, and Bayesian regression with small data
• applications of the above to predictive software engineering such as software defect prediction and software effort estimation.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Supervisor: Chair Prof. Xin Yao. Thesis title: Learning to Cope with Small Noisy Data in Software Effort Estimation.
  *(Thesis available here and also officially available here. Pass the viva with minor revisions on 30 Nov. 2018. PhD officially awarded on 12 July 2019)
• MSc in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Supervisor: Prof. Chiping Zhang
• BSc in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Supervisor: Prof. Chiping Zhang

Work Experience

• 2025/06--, Visiting Scholar, Singapore Management University, Singapore. PI: Chair Prof. David Lo.
• 2023/12-present, Associate Professor, School of Software, Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
• 2019/12-2023/12, Research Assistant Professor (副高、硕导), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. PI: Chair Prof. Xin Yao
• 2019/03-2019/11, Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, the University of Birmingham, UK. PI: Prof. Leandro L. Minku
• 2015/11-2016/10, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. PI: Prof. Haiping Lu (now moved to University of Sheffield, UK)
• 2012/01-2012/10, Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, China. PI: Prof. Byron Choi

Teaching

• [22CS31080F] Essential Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence 人工智能数学基础, for undergraduate students (2025Spring)

Grants

• 概念漂移主动感知的在线即时软件缺陷预测研究，国家自然科学基金面上项目 (the National Natural Science Foundation), No.62572154, 2026.01-2029.12, 主持
• 面向即时软件缺陷预测的模型自适应研究, 黑龙江省自然科学基金 (the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation), No.LH2024F016, 2024.12-2027.12, 主持
• 面向脑机接口系统内中间延迟问题的被动分类方法研究机, 器人学xxxx实验室 (No.2023-O11), 2023.12-2024.12, 主持 (Completed)
• 2024年度****人文交流项目, 哈尔滨工业大学, 2024.03-2024.11, 主持 (Completed)
• 面向软件成本估算小数据问题的估算模型研究，国家自然科学基金-青年科学基金 (National Natural Science Foundation of China-Young Scientist Fund), No.62002148, 2021.1-2023.12, 主持 (Completed)
• 多分类问题中的重现概念漂移在线检测, 南方科技大学-华为技术有限公司可信智能系统创新实验室, 2021.8-2022.8 (70w), 参与 (Completed) - I was the core and leading member of the research team, PI: Chair Prof. Xin Yao 获奖："2023华为公司级优秀技术合作项目"
• 概念漂移在线检测与模型自适应 (Concept Drift Detection and Model Adaptation), 南方科技大学-华为技术有限公司可信智能系统创新实验室, 2020.4-2021.4 (76.8w), 参与 (Completed) - I was the core and leading member of the research team, PI: Chair Prof. Xin Yao

Professional Activities

Academic Services

• Chair of the Conference Activities and Communications subcommittee in IEEE CIS, 2023.02-2024.12 (This subcommittee is responsible for organizing and communicating for academic conferences and events, engaging in various initiatives of CIS and closely collaborating with other committees.)
• Member of the Conference Activities and Communications subcommittee in IEEE CIS, 2022
• Guest editor of the Special Issue Soft Computing for Uncertain Decision Making. Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023
• Member of the Social Media Subcommittee in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2017 (CIS, established in 1999, is a professional association under IEEE. Its primary goal is to advance research and development including artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition and evolutionary computation. It supports several esteemed journals such as TNNLS, TEVC, TCYB, TFS and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.)

Reviewers or Conference PC Members

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability
• Neural Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
• Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
• Information and Software
• Software Quality Journal (SQJ)
• Software: Practice and Experience
• Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
• Applied Soft Computing
• Information and Software Technology (IST)
• Array
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Honors & Awards

• 深圳市第三届优秀技术学术论文奖，深圳市科学技术委员会，2023.11
• "Peacock Plan" C-class Talents in Shenzhen City (深圳市“孔雀计划”C类)
• Fully funded PhD Studentship from University of Birmingham, UK
• 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