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Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2023
• M.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2019
• M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 2013
• B.S. in Vehicle Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2011

Research Interests

• Incremental Analysis
• Pointer Analysis
• Concurrent/Parallel and Distributed System
• Program Testing and Debugging
• Security Vulnerability
• Software Engineering for AI (SE4AI)

Publications

• Bozhen Liu and Dhruti Joshi. 2024. GoGuard: Efficient Static Blocking Bug Detection for Go. International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2024). preprint

• Yoonsik Cheon, Bozhen Liu and Carlos Rubio-Medrano. 2024. Asserting Frame Properties. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT 2024. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012786600003753

• Bozhen Liu and Jeff Huang. 2022. SHARP: fast incremental context-sensitive pointer analysis for Java. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 6, OOPSLA1, Article 88 (April 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527332

• Bozhen Liu, Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Chia-Che Tsai, Dilma Da Silva, and Jeff Huang. 2021. When threads meet events: efficient and precise static race detection with origins. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 725–739. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454073

• Bradley Swain, Bozhen Liu, Peiming Liu, Yanze Li, Addison Crump, Rohan Khera, Jeff Huang, “OpenRace: An Open Source Framework for Statically Detecting Data Races,” 2021 IEEE/ACM 5th International Workshop on Software Correctness for HPC Applications (Correctness), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2021, pp. 25-32, doi: 10.1109/Correctness54621.2021.00009.

• Yanze Li, Bozhen Liu, and Jeff Huang. 2019. SWORD: a scalable whole program race detector for Java. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE ‘19). IEEE Press, 75–78. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00042

• Bozhen Liu, Jeff Huang, and Lawrence Rauchwerger. 2019. Rethinking Incremental and Parallel Pointer Analysis. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 41, 1, Article 6 (March 2019), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3293606

• Bozhen Liu and Jeff Huang. 2018. D4: fast concurrency debugging with parallel differential analysis. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 359–373. https://doi.org/10.1145/3192366.3192390

Fundings

• Towards the Safety and Security Gap of Integrating LLMs into Software
  • CAHSI-Google Institutional Research Program
  • Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Young Lee@TAMU-SA)
  • Amount: $80,000 + $20,000 GCP
  • Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
• Cross-Language Pointer Analysis Enhanced by AI
  • Research Enhancement Funding Program@Division of Research and Innovation, TAMUCC
  • Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Taoran Ji@TAMUCC)
  • Amount: $5,677
  • Sep 2024 - Aug 2025

Services

• Activities
  • Mentor in Mentors within the PLMW 2024
  • Co-host Graduate Student Seminar in Department of Computer Science 2024
  • Faculty Search Committee: Department of Computer Science at TAMUCC 2023
• Reviewer:
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • NSF Panel 2023
  • 2022 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) for CGO 2018

Awards

• 2023 PhD Awards from Department of Computer Science, TAMU
• PLMW@PLDI’18 scholarship

Teaching

• COSC1436 Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers II (Spring 2024)
• COSC4360 Theory of Programming Languages (Fall 2023/24)

Students

Master

• Julia GomezRangel
• Ramya Sree Kanijam
• Koushik Reddy Kambham
• Dhruti Joshi (graduated on May 2024)

Undergraduate

• Alvaro Vazquez

Fun Websites

• PLSE Conferences: includes all levels of PL, SE conferences
• phdcommics.com: fun facts about PhD lives