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赵逸雪 Yixue Zhao, PhD

Research Computer Scientist

USC Information Sciences Institute

About Me

I'm a Research Computer Scientist at USC Information Scienced Institute (ISI) Arlington (VA), doing cool research and working with cool people 😊 I enjoy solving important and interesting problems with broad research interests (knowledge has no boundaries, right?). My current research focus is listed below (it changes overtime, largely driven by how the world changes and who I meet). Prior to ISI, I enjoyed 2 wonderful years in the beautiful town Amherst (MA) as a Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California (USC) in 2020. Before my PhD, I grew up in China and received my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.

Throughout my research projects, I enjoy working with people the most. I love learning about leadership and mentoring very much! My mentoring experience can be found here.

Outside of work, I enjoy rock climbing, taking fun classes (see class list ), writing blogs, and meditation (my fav hobby! 🧘‍♀️). Check out my misc page for more non-researchy stuff :)

Interests

  • High Performance Space Computing
  • Well-being and Mindfulness
  • Mobile Applications
  • Software Engineering
  • Program Analysis
  • Software Testing

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2014 -- 2020

    University of Southern California (USC), USA

  • BEng in Software Engineering, 2010 -- 2014

    Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China

Recent News

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[Sep 2024] Dreams come true! 🎉 Super excited to join the board of Freedom of Mind with my favorite people! 🥰 Stay tuned for what's to come! ❤️

[Aug 2024] Big milestone at ICSE 2024 accomplished! 🥳 See my blog From Zero to One: Lessons Learned on Bringing African Students to International Conferences for details. Super proud of our team on the Africa Initiative! 🌍

[Jul 2024] I just got back from my 10-day silent meditation retreat at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center! This is my top 1 priority every year and I always come back as fresh as new! 🥰 I share how I came across this treasure and a few tips on sitting long in a blog post.

[Apr 2024] My two presentations at MOBILESoft 2024 in Lisbon are live! 🎙️ Check them out if you missed it! 😉 CAREForMe: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Recommendation Framework for Mental Health and Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement.

[Apr 2024] The Steering Comittee of ICSE's Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW) is born!! 🎉 Read more on Twitter/X or LinkedIn.

Recent Publications

see CV for the full list :)

. Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2024 (MOBILESoft), 2024.

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. CAREForMe: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Recommendation Framework for Mental Health. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2024 (MOBILESoft), 2024.

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. AVGUST: A Tool for Generating Usage-Based Tests from Videos of App Executions. Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023 Demo), 2023.

. Avgust: Automating Usage-Based Test Generation from Videos of App Executions. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022), 2022.

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. UI Test Migration Across Mobile Platforms. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), 2021.

Recent Talks

CAREForMe: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Recommendation Framework for Mental Health [MOBILESoft 2024 Paper Presentation]

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the urgency for effective and accessible mental health interventions in people’s daily lives. …

Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement [MOBILESoft 2024 Paper Presentation]

The prevalence of social media and its escalating impact on mental health has highlighted the need for effective digital wellbeing …

Avgust: Automating Usage-Based Test Generation from Videos of App Executions [ESEC/FSE 2022 Presentation]

Writing and maintaining UI tests for mobile apps is a time-consuming and tedious task. While decades of research have produced …

Assessing the Feasibility of Web-Request Prediction Models on Mobile Platforms [MOBILESoft 2021 Paper Presentation]

Prefetching web pages is a well-studied solution to reduce network latency by predicting users’ future actions based on their …

Reducing user-perceived latency in mobile applications via prefetching and caching [PhD Thesis Presentation]

Prefetching and caching is a fundamental approach to reduce user-perceived latency, and has been shown effective in various domains for …

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