HUO Yintong
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024
Teaching Topics
- Data Structures and Algorithms
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Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
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HighlightsYintong Huo is an Assistant Professor at SMU whose research advances automated software engineering, log analytics, and AI-powered code generation, with a strong publication record in top-tier venues.
Bridges foundational advances in log analytics and automated software engineering with practical applications in cloud reliability and intelligent code generation; recognized for methodological rigor, impactful tool development, and contributions to trustworthy AI for software systems.
Focused research areas include Automated detection and repair of software defects; log parsing and analytics using LLMs; anomaly detection and root cause analysis in large-scale cloud systems; code generation from natural language and screenshots; evaluation and enhancement of LLM-based coding tools; trustworthy agentic AI systems.
Bridges foundational advances in log analytics and automated software engineering with practical applications in cloud reliability and intelligent code generation; recognized for methodological rigor, impactful tool development, and contributions to trustworthy AI for software systems.
Focused research areas include Automated detection and repair of software defects; log parsing and analytics using LLMs; anomaly detection and root cause analysis in large-scale cloud systems; code generation from natural language and screenshots; evaluation and enhancement of LLM-based coding tools; trustworthy agentic AI systems.
Areas of Expertise
Automated software engineeringlog analytics and anomaly detectionAI-powered code generationlarge language models (LLMs) for codeempirical software engineeringcloud systems monitoring and diagnosis.
Past Awarded Grant
- Systematic Evaluation of the Trustworthiness of Agentic AI Systems, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 , PI (Project Level): JIANG Lingxiao , Co-PI (Project Level): HUO Yintong, Christoph TREUDE, 2025, S$150,000
- Multimodal code intelligence on GUI understanding and generation, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 , PI (Project Level): HUO Yintong, 2025, S$119,600
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- M Wang, Y HuoFSE'26, 2026
- S Shan, Y Huo, Y Su, Z Wang, D Li, Z ZhengICSE'26, 2026
- W Gu, R Zhong, G Yu, X Sun, J Liu, Y Huo, Z Chen, J Zhang, J Gu, Y Yang, ...Empirical Software Engineering 31 (2), 28, 2026
- J Xiao, J Qin, S Li, MH Lam, Y Wan, J Huang, Y Huo, MR LyuarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19276, 2026
- RG Kula, C Treude, X Hu, S Baltes, ET Barr, K Blincoe, F Calefato, J Chen, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07412, 2026
- Y Wan, T Fang, Z Li, Y Huo, W Wang, H Mi, D Yu, MR LyuarXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15808, 2026
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Qualification
- PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024
Teaching Topics
- Data Structures and Algorithms