Yanyan Jiang 蒋炎岩 
Research
I'm interested in fun stuffs on constructing and torturing software systems: validation, verification, and synthesis. Selected publications:
- Yanyan Jiang, “The hitchhiker's guide to operating systems”, in Proceedings of the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Accepted, 2023.
- Cong Li, Yanyan Jiang, and Chang Xu, “Push-button synthesis of watch companions for Android apps”, in Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1793–1804, 2022.
- Cong Li, Yanyan Jiang, and Chang Xu, “Cross-device record and replay for Android apps”, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 395–407, 2022.
- Zelin Zhao, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, Tianxiao Gu, and Xiaoxing Ma, “Synthesizing object state transformers for dynamic software updates”, in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1111–1122, 2021 (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 🏅 and ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award 🏅).
“软件动态更新技术”
- And the full publication list.
Teaching
Students

Services
- As PC Member: ASE'23, ASE'21, SANER'23, SANER'22, Internetware'21-23, Chinasoft'20-21, ChinaSys'21, ASE'20 Tools, ChinaSys'20, ISSTA'19 Artifacts, SATE'19, SATE'18; As reviewer: TSE, TOSEM, TPDS, SCP, JoS, FCS.
- As Guest Editor: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Special Issue on Evolving Large-scale Systems.
Steering Committee Member of Jiangsu Olympiad in Informatics; Technical Committee Member of APIO2022, APIO2023.
Honors and Awards
- 2022 Xiaomi Youth Innovation Award and Houjun Liu Teaching Award of Nanjing University.
- 2021 NASAC Youth Software Innovation Award (NASAC 青年软件创新奖).
- 2021 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and ACM European Best Paper Award (ICSE'21).
- 2020 Bank of China Teaching Award of Nanjing University.
- 2018-2020 CCF Elite Youth Scientists Sponsorship Program (CCF 青年人才托举计划; Top 6 in China).
- 2018 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ASE'18).
- 2018 CCF Docotral Disseration Award (CCF 优秀博士学位论文; Top 5 in China), ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination (Top 5 in China).
- 2016 Distinguished Student of Nanjing University (南京大学学生年度人物; the only PhD student out of ten winners).
- 2014 MSRA Fellowship Award (微软学者奖学金; Top 12 in Asia Region); 2015 and 2010 National Scholarship;
- First Place in 2014 Huawei Cup Regional Programming Contest; Second Place in 2012 Tencent Hackathon.
- I competed in ICPC regional contests for two Gold Medals and earned 49th Place in the 2009 World Finals.
Last Update: June 7, 2023