The University of Texas at Austin
Bio
I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin. I work with
Prof. Milos
Gligoric. My research interests focus on the
fusion of
software engineering,
programming languages, and
natural language processing.
Specific topics include languages for writing
executable contracts and executable comments,
updating natural language elements for evolving
software, and utilizing runtime context to improve
ML models for software.
I obtained my Bachelor's Degree at the University
of Science and Technology of China, with majoring
in both Physics and Computer Science.
Locate me on:
GitHub (pengyunie),
Google Scholar
Publications
Unifying execution of imperative generators and declarative specifications.
[talk]
Pengyu Nie, Marinela Parovic, Zhiqiang Zang,
Sarfraz Khurshid, Aleksandar Milicevic, and Milos
Gligoric.
In Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications
(OOPSLA'20), 217:1-217:26. Chicago, Illinois, USA,
November 2020.
On the naturalness of hardware descriptions.
[talk]
Jaeseong Lee, Pengyu Nie, Junyi Jessy Li, and
Milos Gligoric.
In Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering
Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of
Software Engineering
(ESEC/FSE'20), 530-542. Sacramento, California,
USA, November 2020.
Learning to format Coq code using language models.
[slides]
Pengyu Nie, Karl Palmskog, Junyi Jessy Li,
and Milos Gligoric.
In The Coq Workshop
(Coq'20). Paris, France, July 2020.
Debugging the performance of Maven's test isolation: Experience report.
[slides]
Pengyu Nie, Ahmet Celik, Matthew Coley,
Aleksandar Milicevic, Jonathan Bell, and Milos
Gligoric.
In International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
(ISSTA'20), 249-259. Los Angeles, California, USA, July 2020.
Learning to update natural language comments based on code changes.
Sheena Panthaplackel, Pengyu Nie, Milos
Gligoric, Junyi Jessy Li, and Raymond J. Mooney.
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'20), 1853-1868. Seattle, Washington, USA, July 2020.
Deep generation of Coq lemma names using
elaborated terms.
[slides] [talk]
Pengyu Nie, Karl Palmskog, Junyi Jessy Li,
and Milos Gligoric.
In International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
(IJCAR'20), 97-118. Paris, France, June 2020.
Design, implementation, and application of
GPU-based Java bytecode interpreters.
Ahmet Celik, Pengyu Nie, Christopher
J. Rossbach, and Milos Gligoric.
In Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications
(OOPSLA'19), 177:1-177:28. Athens, Greece, October 2019.
A framework for writing trigger-action todo
comments in executable format.
[slides]
Pengyu Nie, Rishabh Rai, Junyi Jessy Li,
Sarfraz Khurshid, Raymond J. Mooney, and Milos
Gligoric.
In Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering
Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of
Software Engineering
(ESEC/FSE'19), 385-396. Tallinn, Estonia, August 2019.
This paper won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper
Award.
Natural language processing and program analysis
for supporting todo comments as software
evolves.
Pengyu Nie, Junyi Jessy Li, Sarfraz Khurshid,
Raymond J. Mooney, and Milos Gligoric.
In Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Software Engineering
(NL4SE'18), 775-778. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February
2018. Long presentation.