Short Bio

I am an assistant professor in School of Informatics (National Characteristic Demonstration Software School), Xiamen University. Prior to that, I received my PhD degree in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023, supervised by Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung. I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Northeastern University on June 2017. You are welcome to contact with me through huanghuaxun at xmu dot edu dot cn.

Publications (^ denotes the students I supervised, * means the corresponding author)

[ASE '25] Jiahao Gu^, Huaxun Huang*, Characterizing and Repairing Color-Related Accessibility Issues in Android Apps. In the 40th IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE'25), Seoul, South Korea, November 2025. (CCF-A) [preprint]

[ISSTA '23] Huaxun Huang, Chi Xu, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung*, ConfFix: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Issues in Android Apps. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'23), Seattle, USA, July 2023. (CCF-A) [preprint]

[ASE '21] Huaxun Huang, Ming Wen, Lili Wei, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung*, Characterizing and Detecting Configuration Compatibility Issues in Android Apps. In Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'21), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2021. (CCF-A) [preprint]

[TSE '20] Lili Wei, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Huaxun Huang, Xuan Lu, and Xuanzhe Liu, Understanding and Detecting Fragmentation-Induced Compatibility Issues for Android Apps. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 1176-1199, 1 Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2018.2876439. (CCF-A) [preprint]

[ASE '18] Huaxun Huang, Lili Wei, Yepang Liu*, Shing-Chi Cheung*, Understanding and Detecting Callback Compatibility Issues for Android Applications. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'18), Montpellier, France, Sept 2018. (CCF-A) [preprint]

[ASE '18] Jiajun Hu, Lili Wei, Yepang Liu*, Shing-Chi Cheung*, Huaxun Huang, A Tale of Two Cities: How WebView Induces Bugs to Android Applications. In Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'18), Montpellier, France, Sept 2018. (CCF-A) [preprint]

Selected Honors & Awards

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), 2017-2021.

SIGSOFT CAPS for ASE 2018, 2018.

Outstanding Graduates Honor in Liaoning Province, 2017

Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Shenyang City, 2016

National Scholarship, 2014-2015

Liu Dajie and Fang Wenyu Scholarship, 2013-2014

Students

Wu Liu (Master student starting from 2023, cosupervised with Prof. Rongxin Wu)

Jiahao Gu (Master student starting from 2024)

Teyu Lin (Master student starting from 2024)

Xiangyang Xiao (Master student starting from 2024)

Haoze Yu (Master student starting from 2024)

Minghao Fan (Master student starting from 2025)

Jian He (Master student starting from 2025)

Chengfeng Lin (Master student starting from 2025)

Zhirong Zheng (Master student starting from 2025)

Teaching Experience

1. Teaching assistant for COMP4431, Spring 2020

2. Teaching assistant for COMP2012, Fall 2019

3. Teaching assistant for COMP4111, Fall 2018