Research
Selected Publications
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Vision Language Model-based Testing of Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots. Jiahui Wu,
Chengjie Lu, Aitor Arrieta, Shaukat Ali, and Thomas Peyrucain
2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '26), SEIP Track [Paper] [Code] 
Assessing the uncertainty and robustness of the laptop refurbishing software. Chengjie Lu, Jiahui Wu, Shaukat Ali, and Mikkel Labori Olsen
2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST '25), Industrial Track [Paper] [Code] 
Epitester: Testing autonomous vehicles with epigenetic algorithm and attention mechanism. Chengjie Lu, Shaukat Ali, and Tao Yue
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2024 [Paper] [Code] 
Reality bites: Assessing the realism of driving scenarios with large language models. Jiahui Wu,
Chengjie Lu, Aitor Arrieta, Shaukat Ali, and Tao Yue
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (Forge '24), Research Track [Paper] [Code] 
Evoclinical: Evolving cyber-cyber digital twin with active transfer learning for automated cancer registry system. Chengjie Lu, Qinghua Xu, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali, Thomas Schwitalla, and Jan F Nygård
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE '23), Industrial Track [Paper] [Code] 
Test scenario generation for autonomous driving systems with reinforcement learning. Chengjie Lu 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion 2023), 1st Place Winner@ICSE2023 SRC [Paper] 
DeepScenario: An Open Driving Scenario Dataset for Autonomous Driving System Testing. Chengjie Lu 2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '23), Dataset and Showcase Track [Paper] [Dataset] 
Learning Configurations of Operating Environment of Autonomous Vehicles to Maximize their Collisions. Chengjie Lu, Yize Shi, Huihui Zhang, Man Zhang, Tiexin Wang, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022 [Paper] [Code] 
Search-Based Selection and Prioritization of Test Scenarios for Autonomous Driving Systems. Chengjie Lu, Huihui Zhang, Tao Yue
13th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE '21). [Paper] [Slides] [Code] 
Restricted Natural Language and Model-based Adaptive Test Generation for Autonomous Driving. Yize Shi,
Chengjie Lu, Man Zhang, Huihui Zhang, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali
ACM/IEEE 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '21). [Paper] [Code] Technical Reports
Foundation Models for Software Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems: the Road Ahead. Chengjie Lu, Pablo Valle, Jiahui Wu, Erblin Isaku, Hassan Sartaj, Aitor Arrieta, and Shaukat Ali
Under major revision in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). [Preprint] 
Multi-Modal Reinforcement Learning-based Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems. Chengjie Lu, Tao Yue, Man Zhang, and Shaukat Ali
Submitted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). [Preprint] [Code] 
UAMTERS: Uncertainty-Aware Mutation Analysis for DL-enabled Robotic Software. Chengjie Lu, Jiahui Wu, Shaukat Ali, Malaika Din Hashmi, et al.
Submitted for publication in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). [Code] 
Evaluating Uncertainty and Quality of Visual Language Action-enabled Robots. Pablo Valle,
Chengjie Lu, Shaukat Ali, and Aitor Arrieta
Submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). [Preprint] [Code] Academic Services
Journal Reviewers
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
Science of Computer Programming (SCP)
Conference Program Committee Members
35th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2024), Artifact Evaluation Track
4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing (AIST 2024)
5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing (AIST 2025)
1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems (SE4ADS 2025)
2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems (SE4ADS 2026)