About Me

Yuchen Shao is a third-year Ph.D. student of Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University (2023–) and Shanghai Innovation Institute, co-advised by Prof. Chengcheng Wan and Prof. Ting Su. Her undergraduate studies were undertaken at Shanghai University (2019–2023).

Research Interest

OmniStore: Towards a Unified Standard for Cost-Efficient, High-Performance Multi-modal Storage
Long Yang, Yuchen Shao, Chengcheng Wan, Liang Shi
The 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’26 WiPs and Posters)
PADD: Prefix-based Attention Divergence Detector for LLM Jailbreaks
Ziqun Bao, Jiaqiang Niu, Yuchen Shao, Chengcheng Wan*
The Web Conference 2026 (WWW ’26)
Comfrey: Mitigating Integration Failures in LLM-enabled Software at Run-Time
Yuchen Shao, Yuheng Huang, Jiazhen Zou, Yuling Shi, Long Yang, Lei Ma, Ting Su, Chengcheng Wan*
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’26)
Are LLMs Correctly Integrated into Software Systems?
Yuchen Shao, Yuheng Huang, Jiawei Shen, Lei Ma, Ting Su, Chengcheng Wan*
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’25)
[Paper] [Artifact]

Understanding the Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
Shengming Zhao, Yuchen Shao, Yuheng Huang, Jiayang Song, Zhijie Wang, Chengcheng Wan, Lei Ma
[Paper]
A Study of In-Context-Learning-Based Text-to-SQL Errors
Jiawei Shen, Chengcheng Wan, Ruoyi Qiao, Jiazhen Zou, Hang Xu, Yuchen Shao, Yueling Zhang, Weikai Miao, Geguang Pu
[Paper]

One misintegration case identified in our defect library Hydrangea has been officially and publicly assigned CVE-2025-45150.

[Talk] “From Empirical Study to Runtime Mitigation: Addressing Integration Failures in LLM-Enabled Software” in NUS-TEST Lab, February 2026. [Link]
[Review] Conference reviewer for WWW 2026 (The ACM Web Conference 2026)
[Talk] “Are LLMs Correctly Integrated into Software Systems?” at ICSE ’25, May 2025
[Teaching] TA of “Cloud Computing Technology”, ECNU, 2023