Publications

[C17] Xuemeng Cai, Jiakun Liu*, Xiping Huang, Yijun Yu, Haitao Wu, Chunmiao Li, Bo Wang, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Lingxiao Jiang. "RustMap: Towards Project-Scale C-to-Rust Migration via LLM and Program Analysis" The 29th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2025) (CCF-C), Accepted as a Full Paper. [PDF]

[C16] Lingxiao Tang, Jiakun Liu, Zhongxin Liu, Xiaohu Yang, Lingfeng Bao. "LLM4SZZ: Enhancing SZZ Algorithm with Context-Enhanced Assessment on Large Language Models" The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2025) (CCF-A), Accepted as a Full Paper. [PDF]

[C15] Dezhen Kong, Jiakun Liu, Chao Ni, David Lo, Lingfeng Bao. "More Effective JavaScript Breaking Change Detection via Dynamic Object Relation Graph" The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2025) (CCF-A), Accepted as a Full Paper. [PDF]

[C14] Zicheng Zhang, Jiakun Liu, Ferdian Thung, Xing Hu, Wei Minn, Yan Naing Tun, Lwin Khin Shar, David Lo, Debin Gao. "DynDebloater: Dynamically Debloating Unwanted Features of Android Apps without APK Modification" ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2025) (CCF-A), Accepted as a Tool Demo Paper. [PDF]

[C13] Junxiao Han, Guanqi Wang, Jiakun Liu*, Lingfeng Bao, Xing Hu, Jinling Wei, Shuiguang Deng. "A Comprehensive Study of Bug Characteristics on Foundation Language Models" 2nd Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE 2025), Accepted (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award) [PDF]

[J8] Lishui Fan, Jiakun Liu, Zhongxin Liu, David Lo, Xin Xia, Shanping Li. "Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code Change Related Tasks" ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (CCF-A), Accepted [PDF]

[J7] Dezhen Kong, Jiakun Liu, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo. "Towards Better Comprehension of Breaking Changes in NPM Ecosystem" ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (CCF-A), Accepted [PDF]

[J6] Junda He, Bowen Xu, Zhou Yang, DongGyun Han, Chengran Yang, Jiakun Liu*, Zhipeng Zhao, and David Lo. "PTM4Tag+: Tag Recommendation of Stack Overflow Posts with Pre-trained Models" Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (CCF-B), Accepted [PDF]

[C12] Ferdian Thung, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Jiakun Liu, David Lo. "Towards Benchmarking the Coverage of Automated Testing Tools in Android against Manual Testing" 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2024), Accepted as a short paper [PDF]

[C11] Ferdian Thung, Jiakun Liu, Pattarakrit Rattanukul, Shahar Maoz, Eran Toch, Debin Gao, David Lo. "Towards Speedy Permission-Based Debloating for Android Apps" 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2024), Accepted as a short paper [PDF]

[C10] Jiakun Liu, Zicheng Zhang, Xing Hu, Ferdian Thung, Shahar Maoz, Debin Gao, Eran Toch, Zhipeng Zhao, David Lo. "MiniMon: Minimizing Android Applications with Intelligent Monitoring-Based Debloating" 46nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) (CCF-A), Accepted [PDF]

[C9] Hao Gu, Shichao Zhang, Qiao Huang, Zhifang Liao, Jiakun Liu* and David Lo. "Self-Admitted Technical Debts Identification: How Far Are We?" 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) (CCF-B), Accepted as a Full Paper. (IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award) [PDF]

[C8] Junxiao Han, Yunkun Wang, Zhongxin Liu, Lingfeng Bao, Jiakun Liu*, David Lo and Shuiguang Deng. "Sustainability Forecasting for Deep Learning Packages" 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) (CCF-B), Accepted as a Full Paper. [PDF]

[J5] Junxiao Han, Jiakun Liu*, David Lo, Chen Zhi, Yishan Chen, Shuiguang Deng. "On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective" Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (CCF-B), Accepted [PDF]

[C7] Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, DongGyun Han, David Lo. "The Devil is in the Tails: How Long-Tailed Code Distributions Impact Large Language Models" 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023) (CCF-A), Accepted as a Full paper [PDF]

[C6] Jiakun Liu, Xing Hu, Ferdian Thung, Shahar Maoz, Eran Toch, Debin Gao, and David Lo. "AutoDebloater: Automated Android App Debloating" 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), Accepted as a Tool Demo paper [PDF]

[C5] Bowen Xu, Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Thong Hoang, Jiakun Liu, Kisub Kim, Chen Gong, Changan Niu, Chenyu Wang, Bach Le, David Lo. "Are We Ready to Embrace Generative AI for Software Q&A?" 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), Accepted as a NIER paper [PDF]

[C4] Chengran Yang, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, David Lo. "TECHSUMBOT: A Stack Overflow Answer Summarization Tool for Technical Query" 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering, Accepted as a Tool Demo Paper. [PDF]

[C3] Menghan Wu, Yang Zhang, Jiakun Liu, Shangwen Wang, Zhang Zhang, Xin Xia, Xinjun Mao. "On the Way to Microservices: Exploring Problems and Solutions from Online Q&A Community" 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022) (CCF-B), Accepted as a Full Paper. (IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award) [PDF]

[J4] Jiakun Liu, Haoxiang Zhang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li. "An Exploratory Study on the Repeatedly Shared External Links on Stack Overflowow" Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (CCF-B), Accepted [PDF]

[C2] Jiakun Liu, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, David Lo, Yun Zhang, Xin Xia. "Characterizing Search Activities on Stack Overflow" The 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021) (CCF-A), Accepted as a Full Paper [PDF]

[J3] Jiakun Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Haoxiang Zhang, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li. "Broken External Links on Stack Overflow" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) (CCF-A), Accepted [PDF]

[J2] Jiakun Liu, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Emad Shihab, David Lo, Shanping Li. "An Exploratory Study on the Introduction and Removal of Different Types of Technical Debt" Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (CCF-B), Accepted [PDF]

[C1] Jiakun Liu, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Emad Shihab, David Lo, Shanping Li. "Is Using Deep Learning Frameworks Free? Characterizing Technical Debt in Deep Learning Frameworks" 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020) (CCF-A), Accepted as a SEIS Track Full Paper. [PDF]

[J1] 张芸，刘佳琨，夏鑫，吴明晖，颜晖.. "基于信息检索的软件缺陷定位技术研究进展" 软件学报, 已录用 [PDF]