Chuan Yan
Logo Ph.D. student in University of Queensland

I’m a third-year Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Queensland, mentored by A/Prof. Guangdong Bai.

My research focuses on detecting issues in the system and third-party application ecosystem based on documentation. My works have been published in leading conferences and journals, including FSE, ICSE, ASE, PETs etc.

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Honors & Awards
  • 2024 ASE Distinguished Paper Award.
    2024
  • Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence.
    2022
  • Best emo award in UQ.
    2022
  • Outstanding flag-raiser.
    2012
Work Experience
  • Research Assistant, University of Queensland, 2021-2022
  • Tutor, University of Queensland, Concurrency, Theory and Practice (CSSE7610), 2023
  • Tutor, University of Queensland, Concurrency, Theory and Practice (CSSE7610), 2024
Service
  • Reviewer TDSC, Neural Networks
  • Sub-Reviewer ASE’23, FSE’23/25, ICSE’23/25, NDSS’23/24, USENIX’23/24, CCS’23/24, WWW’25
  • Local Committee ICFEM’23, ADMA’23
  • Invited Speaker "Exploring ChatGPT App Ecosystem Distribution, Deployment and Security”, TUM, Germany, Oct 2025
Selected Publications (view all )
Understanding and Detecting File Knowledge Leakage in GPT App Ecosystem
Understanding and Detecting File Knowledge Leakage in GPT App Ecosystem

Chuan Yan, Bowei Guan, Yazhi Li, Mark Huasong Meng, Liuhuo Wan, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* WWW'25:The ACM Web Conference 2025

[Code] [Paper]

Understanding and Detecting File Knowledge Leakage in GPT App Ecosystem
Understanding and Detecting File Knowledge Leakage in GPT App Ecosystem

Chuan Yan, Bowei Guan, Yazhi Li, Mark Huasong Meng, Liuhuo Wan, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* WWW'25:The ACM Web Conference 2025

[Code] [Paper]

Exploring ChatGPT App Ecosystem: Distribution, Deployment and Security
Exploring ChatGPT App Ecosystem: Distribution, Deployment and Security

Chuan Yan, Ruomai Ren, Mark Huasong Meng, Liuhuo Wan, Tian Yang Ooi, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* Distinguished Paper 🏆 ASE'24: The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering 2024

[Code] [Paper]

Exploring ChatGPT App Ecosystem: Distribution, Deployment and Security
Exploring ChatGPT App Ecosystem: Distribution, Deployment and Security

Chuan Yan, Ruomai Ren, Mark Huasong Meng, Liuhuo Wan, Tian Yang Ooi, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* Distinguished Paper 🏆 ASE'24: The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering 2024

[Code] [Paper]

Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS
Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS

Chuan Yan, Mark Huasong Meng, Fuman Xie, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* FSE'24: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Volume 1, Issue FSE 2024

[Code] [Paper]

Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS
Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS

Chuan Yan, Mark Huasong Meng, Fuman Xie, Guangdong Bai

CCF-A CORE-A* FSE'24: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Volume 1, Issue FSE 2024

[Code] [Paper]

On the quality of privacy policy documents of virtual personal assistant applications
On the quality of privacy policy documents of virtual personal assistant applications

Chuan Yan, Fuman Xie, Mark Huasong Meng, Yanjun Zhang, Guangdong Bai

CCF-C CORE-A PETS'24:The 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024

[Code] [Paper]

On the quality of privacy policy documents of virtual personal assistant applications
On the quality of privacy policy documents of virtual personal assistant applications

Chuan Yan, Fuman Xie, Mark Huasong Meng, Yanjun Zhang, Guangdong Bai

CCF-C CORE-A PETS'24:The 24th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024

[Code] [Paper]

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