About Me

Yuchen Shao（邵语辰）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

• SE for AI
• LLM Security

Publications

2026

• 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)

• Progressive Red Teaming Testing for Tool Invocation Chain in LLM Agents
  Yuchen Shao, Ziqun Bao, Yuheng Huang, Yuling Shi, Mingyu Weng, Yiwen Sun, Long Yang, Lei Ma, Ting Su, Chengcheng Wan*
  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’26)

• Understanding the Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
  Shengming Zhao, Yuchen Shao, Yuheng Huang, Jiayang Song, Zhijie Wang, Chengcheng Wan*, Lei Ma*
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM’26) [Paper]

• PADD: Prefix-based Attention Divergence Detector for LLM Jailbreaks
  Ziqun Bao, Jiaqiang Niu, Yuchen Shao, Chengcheng Wan*
  The Web Conference 2026 (WWW ’26)

• 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*
  The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE ’26) [Paper]

• 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)

2025

• 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]

News

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

Awards

1. CCF Research Achievement Prototype System Competition Outstanding Award, 2025
2. Outstanding Graduate Award, Shanghai, 2023
3. Shanghai Municipal Scholarship, 2022
4. Outstanding Volunteer, Shanghai University, 2020

Service and Talks

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