Shaokun Zhang
	Research Engineer Huawei Device Co., Ltd.     Address: Dongguan, Guang Dong, China, 523795 Email: skzhang AT pku.edu.cn

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Currently, Shaokun Zhang is a researcher at Huawei Device Co., Ltd. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Operating System Lab, Peking University (PKU) in 2024, advised by Prof. Ding Li, Prof. Yao Guo, and Prof. Xiangqun Chen. His research interests include mobile app testing, privacy protection, temporal data analysis, and deep learning. He has published many papers on well-known academic conferences and journals (such as ASE, CCS, HPCA, JOS, ISSRE, TITS, ESWA, etc.). He also served as a reviewer of WWW, ISSTA, CCS, TKDE, TMC, TITS, JCST, JOS, etc. He was awarded Outstanding Reviewer of WWW 2024.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Mobile App Analysis: Form Understanding, Cross-Platform Testing, Privacy Compliance.
• Traffic Bigdata Analysis: Multi-Variant, Mutli-Task, Large-Scale Traffic Forecasting.
• AI for Software Engineering
• Intelligent Transportation Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Application Ecosystem Governance (UX, performance, stability, compatibility, etc.)
• Designed and deployed deep reinforcement learning–based stability testing and record–replay automation for HarmonyOS apps, enabling large-scale scenario exploration and regression-free verification during development.
• Built governance workflows covering UX, performance, stability, compatibility, and privacy–security, significantly reducing post-release rework for third-party developers.
• Delivered a unified testing pipeline integrated into DevEco Studio, supporting early detection of functional and non-functional defects.
• Collaborated with framework, DevEco Studio, and device teams to ensure long-term maintainability and alignment with HarmonyOS evolution.
• University Collaboration & Joint Research Programs
• Served as a Huawei-side technical leader for multiple academic collaborations, including joint programs with East China Normal University (ECNU) on automated testing and property-based verification.
• Defined research roadmaps, coordinated funding, and ensured alignment between industrial requirements and academic innovation.
• Facilitated technology transfer from research prototypes to production-ready components integrated into HarmonyOS developer toolchains.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• Led a 12-member cross-organizational team (Huawei & ECNU) to deliver the first property-based testing framework integrated into DevEco Studio, the official IDE for HarmonyOS.
• Defined technical roadmap, budget plan, and four key milestones; introduced weekly agile reviews to align industrial requirements with academic innovations.
• Built an automated script-distribution engine and a DSL for functional-sequence definition, enabling one-click rollout and on-the-fly updates of scenario-based tests; improved page-crawling efficiency and relevance by 30% using inline assertions to detect functional faults.
• Code accepted into DevEco Studio 6.1, now used by 9k+ third-party HarmonyOS developers.
• Outcome triggered a follow-up Phase-II contract on automated UTG generation for distributed HarmonyOS applications.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• [软件学报'24] 基于多模态表征的移动应用 GUI 模糊测试框架. (CCF-A)
  张少坤, 李元春, 雷瀚文, 蒋鹏, 李锭, 郭耀, 陈向群.
  In Journal of Software (in Chinese), July 2024.
• [TKDE'25] MTNet: A Multi-task Learning Framework that Integrates Intra-task and Task-specific Dependencies for Traffic Forecasting (数据挖掘领域顶级期刊, CCF-A, 中科院一区TOP, IF: 10.4)
  Shaokun Zhang, Rui Wang, Hongjun Tang, Kaizhong Zuo, Peng Jiang, Peng Hu, Wenjie Li, Biao Jie, and Peize Zhao.
  In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, November 2025.
• [ASE'23] How Android Apps Break the Data Minimization Principle: An Empirical Study. (软件工程领域顶级会议, CCF-A, 口头报告, 接收率: 21%)
  Shaokun Zhang, Hanwen Lei, Yuanpeng Wang, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen.
  In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, September 2023.
• [TITS'23] PFNet: Large-scale traffic forecasting with progressive spatio-temporal fusion. (智能交通领域顶级期刊, CAA-A+, 中科院一区TOP, IF: 9.55, 通讯作者)
  Chen Wang, Kaizhong Zuo, Shaokun Zhang†, Hanwen Lei, Peng Hu, Zhangyi Shen, Rui Wang, Peize Zhao
  In IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, July 2023.
• [TITS'21] A graph-based temporal attention framework for multi-sensor traffic flow forecasting. (智能交通领域顶级期刊, CAA-A+, 中科院一区TOP, IF: 9.55)
  Shaokun Zhang, Yao Guo, Peize Zhao, Chuanpan Zheng, Xiangqun Chen.
  In IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, April 2021.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• [HPCA'25] DPUaudit: DPU-assisted Pull-based Architecture for Near-Zero Cost System Auditing (体系结构领域顶级会议, CCF-A)
  Peng Jiang, Hanlin Jiang, Ruizhe Huang, Hanwen Lei, Zhineng Zhong, Shaokun Zhang, Yuxin Ren, Ning Jia, Xinwei Hu, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen, Ding Li.
  In The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2025.
• [CCS'23] Put your memory in order: Efficient domain-based memory isolation for wasm applications. (安全领域顶级会议, CCF-A)
  Hanwen Lei, Ziqi Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Peng Jiang, Zhineng Zhong, Ningyu He, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen
  In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November. 2023.
• [ISSRE'23] ReSPlay: Improving Cross-Platform Record-and-Replay with GUI Sequence Matching. (软件可靠性领域旗舰会议, CCF-B, 口头报告)
  Shaokun Zhang, Linna Wu, Yuanchun Li, Ziqi Zhang, Hanwen Lei, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen.
  In IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, October 2023.
• [ISSRE'23] APIMind: API-driven assessment of runtime description-to-permission fidelity in android apps. (软件可靠性领域旗舰会议, CCF-B, 口头报告)
  Shaokun Zhang, Hanwen Lei, Yuanpeng Wang, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen.
  In IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, October 2023.
• [ISSRE'21] Dependency-aware form understanding. (软件可靠性领域旗舰会议, CCF-B, 口头报告)
  Shaokun Zhang, Yuanchun Li, Weixiang Yan, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen.
  In IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, October 2021.

INVITED TALKS

• The OpenHarmony Technical Conference, Changsha, Sep 2025
• The CCF ChinaSoft, Shanghai, Dec 2023
• The 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Florence, Oct 2023
• The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Luxembourg, Sep 2023
• The 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Wuhan, Oct 2021

ACADEMIC SERVICES

• WWW 2024 (CCF-A), Reviewer
• WWW 2023 (CCF-A), External Reviewer
• CCS 2023 (CCF-A), External Reviewer
• ISSTA 2023 (CCF-A), External Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Data Engineering (TKDE)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing（TMC）
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems（TITS）
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
• Journal of Software (JOS)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant, Operating System, Peking University (Fall 2021)
• Teaching Assistant, Operating System, Peking University (Spring 2021)
• Teaching Assistant, Operating System, Peking University (Fall 2020)
• Teaching Assistant, Operating System, Peking University (Spring 2020)
• Teaching Assistant, Operating System, Peking University (Fall 2019)

SELECTED HONORS

• Huawei Individual Quality Star Award, 2025
• Outstanding Reviewer Award of WWW 2024
• Merit student, Peking University, 2021
• PKU Scholarship, Peking University, 2021
• Merit student, Xiamen University, 2018