Miao Miao

About

I am a third year Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Dallas. My faculty supervisor is Shiyi Wei. My research interest lies in program analysis and fuzz testing, and their applications in software reliability and security. I focus on enhancing the reliability and usability of static analysis tools by automatically detecting bugs and diagnosing their root causes. I also work on improving the fuzz testing evaluation process by developing benchmarks that integrate program characteristics, aiming for a more comprehensive and accurate assessment of fuzzing tools.

News

• May 2025: My work "Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking" won the 1st place in ICSE 2025 ACM Student Research Competition!
• May 2025: Our paper "Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals" accepted by TOSEM 2025.
• May 2025: Served on artifact evaluation committee for ISSTA 2025.
• April 2025: I presented our work "An Extensive Empirical Study of Nondeterministic Behavior in Static Analysis Tools" at ICSE 2025, Ottawa!
• April 2025: Received the Mary and Richard Templeton Graduate Fellowship for 2025-2026!
• April 2025: Served on artifact evaluation committee for PLDI 2025.
• March 2025: My work "Program Feature-based Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing" accepted by ISSTA 2025!
• December 2024: Served as a junior PC for MSR 2025.
• December 2024: Received the ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Award for ICSE 2025!
• November 2024: My work "An Extensive Empirical Study of Nondeterministic Behavior in Static Analysis Tools" accepted by ICSE 2025!

Publications

• Miao Miao, Sriteja Kummita, Eric Bodden, and Shiyi Wei. Program Feature-based Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing. ISSTA 2025. [Paper] | [Artifact]
• Miao Miao, Austin Mordahl, Dakota Soles, Alice Beideck, and Shiyi Wei. An Extensive Empirical Study of Nondeterministic Behavior in Static Analysis Tools. ICSE 2025. [Paper] | [Artifact]
• Kummita Sriteja, Miao Miao, Bodden Eric, and Shiyi Wei. Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals. TOSEM 2025. [Paper]
• Miao Miao. Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking. ICSE-SRC 2025. [Paper]
• Kummita Sriteja, Miao Miao, Bodden Eric, and Shiyi Wei. Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals (Registered Report). FUZZING 2024. [Paper]
• Austin Mordahl, Dakota Soles, Miao Miao, Zenong Zhang, and Shiyi Wei. ECSTATIC: Automatic Configuration-Aware Testing and Debugging of Static Analysis Tools. ISSTA-Tool Demonstration 2023. [Paper] | [Code]
• Ying Zhou, Miao Miao, Vlad Birsan, Oscar Chaparro, Shiyi Wei, and Andrian Marcus. Towards Automated Identification of Data Constraints in Software Documentation. EMSE 2025 (Under Review).

Service

• Artifact Evaluation PC: ISSTA 2025, PLDI 2025
• Junior PC: MSR 2025
• Mentor: UTD K-12 & Clarks Summer Research Programs (2023–2025)
• Student Volunteer: ICSE 2025, ISSTA 2023
• Sub-reviewer: CCS, USENIX, FSE, ISSTA, ICSE, ASE, SecDev (2023–2025)

Awards

• 1st Place – ICSE 2025 ACM Student Research Competition
• Mary and Richard Templeton Graduate Fellowship (2025)
• ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Award – ICSE 2025
• Jonsson School Best Teaching Assistant Award (2024)

Industry Experience

• iOS Engineering Intern, Tinder Inc. (Summer 2022)
• iOS Developer, LotusFlare Inc. (2019–2021)
• Junior Software Engineer, KA Software (2018–2019)

Education

Teaching

• CS/SE 6356: Software Maintenance and Re-Engineering (Spring 2023)
• CS 4386: Compiler Design (Fall 2023)
• CS 6353: Compiler Construction (Spring 2024)