Hello, I am Xin Zhang (pronunciation ≈ "shin chang"), an assistant professor at Peking University. Before joining Peking, I was a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Armando Solar-Lezama. I received my Ph.D. from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Prof. Mayur Naik. I am broadly interested in topics related to programming languages and software engineering. For details, please see Research.

Students

Ph.D.
  • Zhenyu Yan
  • Junhao Liu
  • Yuanfeng Shi
  • Tianchi Li
  • Yifan Zhang
  • Zhentao Ye (co-adivised with Yingfei Xiong)
  • Haonan Yu
  • Haoran Lin
Undergraduates
  • Haoyu Feng
  • Zhiyi Li
  • Zirui Zhou
  • Ziyue Jin
Alumni
  • Yaoxuan Wu (Ph.D. Student@UCLA)
  • Yifan Chen (co-adivised with Yingfei Xiong)

Teaching

  • Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (Spring 2025)
  • Introduction to Discrete Mathematics (Fall 2024)

News

Dec 2024
New paper on adding temporal information to machine learning model explanations at AAAI'25.
June 2024
Two new papers at OOPSLA'24. One on how to combine graph neural networks and constraint solving to scale precise program analyses. The other on how to find good representations for program analyses based on Bayesian learning.
March 2022
I have two openings for Ph.D. students this year. If you're interested in topics related to program analysis, program synthesis, and reliable machine learning, please apply to our program and contact me!
Feb 2022
New paper on applying Bayesian methods to semantics-based fault localization at ICSE'22.
July 2021
New paper on accelerating static analyses at SAS'21.
May 2021
New paper on supporting causal inference in probabilistic programming at ICML'21.
Sep 1, 2020
I will serve on the program committees of PLDI'21 and IJCAI'21. Please consider submitting to them!
Oct 1, 2019
New paper at OOPSLA'19 on scalable verification of algorithmic fairness.
Aug 15, 2019
I will serve on the external review committee of PLDI'20. Please consider submitting.
Feb 15, 2019
I will serve on the program committee of SAS'19. Please consider submitting.
Sep 4, 2018
New paper on providing actional explanations to judgments produced by a neural network at NIPS'18.
Aug 8, 2018
I have been selected as a winner of the 2015-2016 Facebook Fellowship. Thank you, Facebook!