I am a first year PhD student at Software and Societal Systems Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Christian Kästner and Chris Timperley.

Before joining CMU, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and B.Ec. in Economics and Finance at Tsinghua University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Maosong Sun and Prof. Junliang Xing.

I also undertook a summer research internship at CMU’s Software and Societal Systems Department, co-advised by Prof. Christian Kästner and Prof. Sherry Tongshuang Wu.

Publications

Yining Hong, Christopher S. Timperley, Christian Kästner. From Hazard Identification to Controller Design: Proactive and LLM-Supported Safety Engineering for ML-Powered Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI (CAIN), April 2025. [.pdf]

Chenyang Yang, Yining Hong, Grace Lewis, Tongshuang Wu, and Christian Kästner. What Is Wrong with My Model? Identifying Systematic Problems with Semantic Data Slicing. In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, November 2024. [.pdf]

Yining Hong, Fanchao Qi, Maosong Sun. Two Heads Are Better Than One: Exploiting Both Sequence and Graph Models in AMR-To-Text Generation. [.pdf]

Teaching Experience

I was a volunteer teaching assistant at the Center for Student Learning and Development at Tsinghua University, an association that offers drop-in tutoring for STEM courses.