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

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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 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