Publications

Jheel Kishore Gala, Asher Sprigler, Priyanshu Rajeshbhai Malaviya, Elizabeth Shen, Yixue Zhao, Yi Ding, Xipeng Shen . From Detection to Forecasting: An Empirical Study of College Student Mental Health Using Smartphone Sensing. Proceedings of the International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies 2026 (CHASE), 2026.

Asher Sprigler, Priyanshu Rajeshbhai Malaviya, Elizabeth Shen, Jheel Kishore Gala, Tanay Taral Shah, Yixue Zhao, Yi Ding, Xipeng Shen . Demo: Trivana: On-Device Multimodal Forecasting and LLM-Driven Mental Health Support. Proceedings of the International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies 2026 (CHASE), 2026.

Gustavo Kruger, Nikhil Sachdeva, Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, Michael Sobolev . SmartPause: Designing a Reinforcement Learning Model for Reducing Screen Time. Workshop on Intelligent & Interactive Health User Interfaces 2026 (HealthIUI), 2026.

Asher Sprigler, Yang-Yang Feng, Iftach Amir, Jonathan E. Bogard, Todd S Braver, Yi Ding, David Kinney, Yixue Zhao . Toward Contemplative LLM: A Modular Framework for Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Alignment in Mental Health. Human-centered AI Research for Mental Health, an Open Networking Symposium 2026 (HARMONY), 2026.

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Meghna Roy Chowdhury, Wei Xuan, Yixue Zhao, Yi Ding . Predicting and Understanding College Student Mental Health with Interpretable Machine Learning. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies 2025 (CHASE), 2025.

Emily Zhou, Khushboo Khatri, Yixue Zhao, Bhaskar Krishnamachari . AffectEval: A Modular and Customizable Affective Computing Framework. Proceedings of the International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies 2025 (CHASE), 2025.

Wei Xuan, Meghna Roy Chowdhury, Yi Ding, Yixue Zhao . Unlocking Mental Health: Exploring College Students' Well-being through Smartphone Behaviors. Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2025 (MOBILESoft), 2025.

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Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, Michael Sobolev . 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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Sheng Yu, Narjes Nourzad, Randye J. Semple, Yixue Zhao, Emily Zhou, Bhaskar Krishnamachari . 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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Saghar Talebipour, Hyojae Park, Kesina Baral, Leon Yee, Safwat Ali Khan, Kevin Moran, Yuriy Brun, Nenad Medvidovic, Yixue Zhao . 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.

Yixue Zhao, Saghar Talebipour, Kesina Baral, Hyojae Park, Leon Yee, Safwat Ali Khan, Yuriy Brun, Nenad Medvidovic, Kevin Moran . 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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Saghar Talebipour, Yixue Zhao, Luka Dojcilovic, Chenggang Li, Nenad Medvidovic . UI Test Migration Across Mobile Platforms. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), 2021.

Adriana Sejfia, Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic . Identifying Casualty Changes in Software Patches. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021), 2021.

Yixue Zhao, Siwei Yin, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Haoyu Wang, Nenad Medvidovic . Assessing the Feasibility of Web-Request Prediction Models on Mobile Platforms. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2021 (MOBILESoft), 2021.

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Yixue Zhao . [PhD Dissertation] Reducing User-Perceived Latency in Mobile Applications via Prefetching and Caching. University of Southern California, 2020.

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Yixue Zhao, Justin Chen, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Jie Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Nenad Medvidovic . FrUITeR: A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), acceptance rate: 28% = 101/360, 2020.

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Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic . Mobile-App Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques Reimagined with DECREE (Position Paper). Recognizing and Rewarding Open Science in Software Engineering (ROSE Festival) at ICSE, 2019.

Yixue Zhao . Mobile-app Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques Reimagined with DECREE. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE , Doctoral Symposium), acceptance rate: 29% = 9 (oral presentation)/31, 2019.

Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic . A Microservice Architecture for Online Mobile App Optimization. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft Visions Track), 2019.

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Yixue Zhao, Paul Wat, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Nenad Medvidović . Empirically Assessing Opportunities for Prefetching and Caching in Mobile Apps. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), acceptance rate: 19.9% = 69/346, 2018.

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Yixue Zhao, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Yingjun Lyu, Nenad Medvidovic . Leveraging Program Analysis to Reduce User-perceived Latency in Mobile Applications. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), acceptance rate: 20.9% = 105/502, 2018.

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Yixue Zhao . MOBILESoft: G: Reducing Latency in Mobile Apps via Program Analysis. ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final, 2018.

Yixue Zhao . Toward Client-Centric Approaches for Latency Minimization in Mobile Applications. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft SRC, 1st place), 2017.

Youn Kyu Lee, Jae young Bang, Gholamreza Safi, Arman Shahbazian, Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic . A SEALANT for Inter-App Security Holes in Android. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), acceptance rate: 17.1% = 68/398, 2017.

Duc Le, Daniel Link, Yixue Zhao, Arman Shahbazian, Chris Mattmann, Nenad Medvidovic . Toward a Classification Framework for Software Architectural Smells. Technical Report at USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering, 2017.

Willian Oizumi, Alessandro Garcia, Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Bruno Cafeo, Yixue Zhao . Code Anomalies Flock Together: Exploring Code Anomaly Agglomerations for Locating Design Problems. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), acceptance rate: 19.1% = 101/530, 2016.

Tonghua Su, Tong Wei, Yixue Zhao, Shuoxing Wang, Zhiyue Liu . Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition. Matthew A. Russell (Chinese Translation). China Machine Press, 2015.