Yu Feng
Associate Professor
He/Him/His
yufeng@cs.ucsb.edu
2157 Harold Frank Hall
Github
Education
Ph.D Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
M.S. Computer Science, Belhang University, Beijing, China
B.S Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
External Publications
GoogleScholar
Awards
2017 UT Austin Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2017 ACM SIGPLAN PAC award
2016 Symantec Graduate Fellowship, finalist
2016 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, finalist
2015 MSR Ph.D. Fellowship, finalist
Research Areas
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Bio

Yu Feng is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in computer science at UT Austin. His research to date focuses on developing automated programming techniques that combine program synthesis and program analysis to improve software usability, reliability, and security. For instance, Yu has developed systems for tackling security vulnerabilities (FSE'14, NDSS'17, CCS'17), automating complex programming tasks (PLDI'17, POPL'17, PLDI'18), and challenging the limits of existing program analysis (OOPSLA'15, APLAS'15).

Research

My interests include programming languages, static program analysis/verification, program synthesis, and security. More specifically, I want to build automated tools to guarantee the desired behavior of a system in a sound, precise and scalable way. I am also interested in applying static analysis to build and break systems, tackle security problems in smartphone.