About me

I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Shuai Wang. Prior to this, I earned my BSc in Computer Science with first-class honors from Hong Kong Baptist University, where I was advised by Prof. DAI, Henry Hong Ning.

My research focuses on Programming Language, Software Engineering.

Contact: gxuah [at] cse [dot] ust [dot] hk

News

• 2026.07: VR-Themis (VR application clone detection) has been accepted to RAID 2026. Media coverage: [Nweon] [Sohu].
• 2026.02: MetaSpace (metamorphic testing for embodied agents) has been accepted to OOPSLA 2026.
• 2025.09: Started my PhD at HKUST.
• 2024.04: Our paper on an empirical study of VR applications was presented at ICSE 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please see my Google Scholar.

• MetaSpace: Metamorphic Testing for Spatial Cognition in Embodied Agents OOPSLA 2026
  Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Yiteng Peng, and Shuai Wang
  [Paper][arXiv]
• VR-Themis: A Scalable Framework for Virtual Reality Application Clone Detection RAID 2026
  Gengyang Xu, Hanyang Guo, Hong-Ning Dai, and Weizhi Meng
  [arXiv][Media Coverage]

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for COMP 1945: Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
  (HKUST, Fall 2026)
• Teaching Assistant for COMP 1945: Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
  (HKUST, Spring 2026)

Professional Services

Last updated: 2026-09