Dr. Xueqi Dang (党雪琪)   Research Associate University of Luxembourg Email: xueqi.dang@uni.lu [ORCID][Google Scholar]

Biography

I am a Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg, working with Prof. Yves (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Mike. I completed my PhD degree at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Prof. Yves (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Mike. Before that, I received my Master's degree from King's College London, and my double B.S. degree from the Beijing University of Technology and University College Dublin.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning Testing
• AI4SE
• SE4AI
• Software Engineering

Selected Publications

(# Co-First Author, * Corresponding Author)

• Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Mike Papadakis, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Yves Le Traon.
  Test input prioritization for Machine Learning Classifiers.
  Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024. (TSE, CCF-A)
• Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Mike Papadakis, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Yves Le Traon.
  GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks.
  Accepted in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023. (TOSEM, CCF-A)
• Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Wei Ma, Yuejun Guo, Qiang Hu, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy, Yves Le Traon.
  Towards Exploring the Limitations of Test Selection Techniques on Graph Neural Networks: An Empirical Study.
  Accepted in Empirical Software Engineering, 2024. (EMSE, CCF-B)
  Accepted in 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Journal-First. (ASE, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  PriCod: Prioritizing Test Inputs for Compressed Deep Neural Networks.
  Accepted in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025. (TOSEM, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  AudioTest: Prioritizing Audio Test Cases.
  Accepted in the 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2025. (ISSTA, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Weiguo Pian, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks.
  Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024. (TSE, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Lei Ma, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds.
  Accepted in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024. (TOSEM, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Lei Ma, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  Prioritizing Test Cases for Deep Learning-based Video Classifiers.
  Accepted in Empirical Software Engineering, 2024. (EMSE, CCF-B)
  Accepted in 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Journal-First. (ASE, CCF-A)
• Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang*, Haoye Tian, Tiezhu Sun, Zhijie Wang, Lei Ma, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé.
  An Empirical Study of AI Techniques in Mobile Applications.
  Accepted in Journal of Systems and Software, 2024. (JSS, CCF-B)
  

Honors & Awards

• Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) - AFR PhD, University of Luxembourg, €130,000
• Exchange student scholarship, University College Dublin, ¥180,000
• Degree with Distinction from King's College London

Services

Journal Referee

• Automated Software Engineering (SCI-2, CCF-B)
• BMC Medical Research Methodology (SCI-2, JCR-1)
• Quantum Machine Intelligence (JCR-2)

Program Committee

• The 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  ISSTA 2025, Tool Demonstrations Track
• The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering
  ICSE 2025, Artifact Evaluation Track

External Reviewer

• The 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
• The 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)

Education

• PhD Degree, University of Luxembourg, August 2021 - April 2025.
• Master's Degree, King's College London, September 2019 - September 2020.
• Double Bachelor's Degree, Beijing University of Technology, September 2015 - June 2019.
• Double Bachelor's Degree, University College Dublin, September 2015 - June 2019.

Work Experience

• University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, May 2025 - Present, Research Associate
• RiseSoft, Beijing, Jun 2019 - Aug 2019, Development Engineer (Intern)
• Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing, Dec 2017 - Feb 2018, Machine Learning Engineer (Intern)

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