An Guo (郭安)

 About me

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU),  working with Prof. Daniel Xiapu Luo. Previously, I received my Ph.D. from Nanjing University (NJU) in 2025, and was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zhenyu Chen. I received my B.S. in Software Engineering from Jilin University (JLU) in 2020.

My research focuses on testing the safety and reliability of cyber-physical systems. I am open to connection and collaboration opportunities!

Experience

• 09/2020~05/2025, Nanjing University, PhD student in software institute under the supervision of Prof. Zhenyu Chen.

• 10/2023~10/2024, Nanyang Technological University, visiting PhD student in College of Computing and Data Science under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Zhou, Prof. Auh Tuan Luu and Prof. Yang Liu.

• 09/2016~07/2020,  Jilin University, Bachelor diploma of software engineering (Elite Program).

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving: Autonomous Driving Software System Testing and Quality Assurance 

Trustworthy AI: Mainly focus on AI System testing and Automated Debugging
SE4AI and AI4SE

Publications: ( * refers to the corresponding author )

Conference

1. [ICSE'26] Scalpel: Automotive Deep Learning Framework Testing via Assembling Model Components  (CCF-A)

       Yinglong Zou,  Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, An Guo, Jiawei Liu, Zhenyu Chen.

       In: The 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering , April 12 -18, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

2. [ASE'25] When Autonomous Vehicle Meets V2X Cooperative Perception: How Far Are We?  (CCF-A)

        An Guo, Shuoxiao Zhang,  Enyi Tang, Xinyu Gao, Haomin Pang, Haoxiang Tian, Yanzhou Mu, Wu Wen, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen.

       In: The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering , November 16 -20, 2025, Seoul, South Korea  

3. [ISSTA'25] Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Multi-Sensor Fusion Perception in Autonomous Driving Systems  (CCF-A)

       Haoxiang Tian, Qiangwen Ding,  Xingshuo Han, Guoquan Wu, An Guo, Junqi Zhang, Wei Chen, Jun Wei, Tianwei Zhang.

       In: The 34th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, June 23 -27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway  

4. [ISSTA'25] Improving Deep Learning Framework Testing with Model-Level Metamorphic Testing  (CCF-A)

       Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai,  Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhixiang Cao, Peiran Yang, Kexin Zhao, An Guo, Zhenyu Chen.

       In: The 34th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, June 23 -27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway  

5. [FSE'25] Eliminating Backdoors in Neural Code Models for Secure Code Understanding  (CCF-A)

       Weisong Sun, Yuchen Chen,  Chunrong Fang, Yebo Feng, Yuan Xiao, An Guo, Quanjun Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Baowen Xu, Yang Liu.

       In: The 33rd ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, June 23 -27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway  

6. [AAAI'25] An LLM-empowered Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm For Multi-Component Deep Learning Systems (CCF-A) (Oral)

       Haoxiang Tian, Xingshuo Han,  Guoquan Wu, An Guo, Yuan Zhou, Jie Zhang, Shuo Li, Jun Wei, Tianwei Zhang.

       In: The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 25 – March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

7.  [ASE'24] SoVAR: Building Generalizable Scenarios from Accident Reports for Autonomous Driving Testing   (CCF-A)

      An Guo, Yuan Zhou,  Haoxiang Tian, Chunrong Fang, Yunjian Sun, Weisong Sun, Xinyu Gao, Luu Anh Tuan, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen.

       In: The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering , October 27-November 1, 2024, Sacramento, California, United States 

8.   [ISSTA'24] CooTest: An Automated Testing Approach for V2X Communication Systems (CCF-A)

       An Guo, Xinyu Gao,  Zhenyu Chen, Yuan Xiao, Jiakai Liu, Xiuting Ge, Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang.

  In: The 33rd International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, September 16-20, 2024, Vienna, Austria

9.  [ISSTA'22] LiRTest: Augmenting LiDAR Point Clouds for Automated Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems (CCF-A)
   An Guo, Yang Feng,  Zhenyu Chen.
   In: The 31st International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 18-22, 2022, Daejeon, South Korea

Journal/Report

1. [TSE'25] Spatial Semantic Fuzzing for LiDAR-based Autonomous Driving Perception Systems (CCF-A)

An Guo, Zhiwei Su, Xinyu Gao, Chunrong Fang, Senrong Wang, Haoxiang Tian, Wu Wen, Lei Ma, Zhenyu Chen.
In: Transactions on Software Engineering

2. [JSS'25] BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development (CCF-B)

Shuoxiao Zhang, Enyi Tang,  Haoliang Cheng, Xinyu Gao, An Guo, Jianhua Zhao, Xin Chen, Linzhang Wang, Na Meng, Xuandong Li.
In: Journal of Systems and Software , Volume 212, 2025 

3. [JSS'24] Semantic-Guided Scene Fuzzing for Virtual Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems (CCF-B)
   An Guo, Yang Feng,  Yizhen Cheng,  Zhenyu Chen.
   In: Journal of Systems and Software , Volume 212, 2024 

4. [JIG] Survey of Testing Techniques of Autonomous Driving Software (CCF-B)
   Yang Feng, Zhilong Xia, An Guo, Zhenyu Chen
   In: Journal of Image and Graphics, 2021, pages 13--27

Main Honors & Awards

• 2025: Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University

• 2024: Light of Mobility-Digital Intelligence Innovation Scholarship, ACM Grant for 33rd ISSTA

• 2023: The 3rd Journal of Image and Graphics (JIG) Academic Forum Distinguished  Report Award

• 2022: Yingcai Scholarship

Academic Services

• 2025: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS) reviewer, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) reviewer

• 2025: ICSE'25 co-reviewer, FSE'25 co-reviewer, ISSTA'25 co-reviewer, ASE'25 co-reviewer, TSE co-reviewer, ToSEM co-reviewer

• 2024: TITS reviewer 

• 2024: Journal of Software co-reviewer, ISSTA'24 co-reviewer, ToSEM co-reviewer

• 2023: ISSTA'23 co-reviewer, TSE co-reviewer

• 2022: CSUR co-reviewer, Internetware' 22 co-reviewer

• 2021: AITest'21 co-reviewer, Internetware'21 co-reviewer, Journal of Software co-reviewer, ISSTA'21 co-reviewer, ICSE'21 co-reviewer

• 2020: TDSC co-reviewer

Invited Talk

• 2024.12, Data-driven Intelligent Software System Testing (数据驱动的智能软件测试). In the 2024 China Automatic Driving Conference (中国智能网联与自动驾驶年会), Shanghai. 

• 2024.11, Scenario Semantics-Driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems (场景语义驱动的自动驾驶系统测试). Autonomous Driving Frontier Forum (自动驾驶前沿论坛) by the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.