Work Experience

• Software Engineer, Security

  2021 Aug — Present

  ByteDance Inc.

• Teaching Assistant

  2021 Spring

  CSCI 571 : Web Technologies

• Teaching Assistant

  2020 Fall

  CSCI 561 : Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

• Teaching Assistant

  2019 Summer

  CSCI 585: Database Systems

• Teaching Assistant

  2018 Summer

  CSCI 585: Database Systems

• Teaching Assistant

  2017 Summer

  CSCI 585: Database Systems

• Teaching Assistant

  2017 Spring

  CSCI 310: Software Engineering

• Teaching Assistant

  2016 Fall

  CSCI 455x: Introduction to Programming Systems Design

• Teaching Assistant

  2016 Summer

  CSCI 455x: Introduction to Programming Systems Design

• Teaching Assistant

  2016 Spring

  CSCI 310: Software Engineering

• Teaching Assistant

  2015 Fall

  CSCI 512: Testing and Analysis of Software Systems (lectured during 2nd week)

• Teaching Assistant

  2015 Summer

  CSCI 571: Web Technologies

• Teaching Assistant

  2014 Spring

  CSCI 377: Introduction to Software Engineering

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy

  August 2013 — August 2021

  University of Southern California

• Master of Engineering

  September 2010 — July 2013

  Peking University, China

• Bachelor of Science

  September 2006 - July 2010

  Yunnan University, China

• dLens

  May 2014-October 2014

  This project is to develop an automated tool detecting display energy hotspots in Android apps.

• String Analysis

  October 2013-Present

  This project is trying to approximate the possible values of a string variable at a given program point.

Publications

• [8] An Empirical Study of UI Implementations in Android Applications

  2019

  Mian Wan, Negarsadat Abolhassani, Ali Alotaibi, William G. J. Halfond
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). October 2019 (To Appear).
  Acceptance rate: 23% (31/135)
  

• [7] An Empirical Study of Local Database Usage in Android Applications

  2017

  Yingjun Lyu, Jiaping Gui, Mian Wan, William G. J. Halfond
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). September 2017.
  Acceptance rate: 27.8% (42/151)
  

• [6] Detecting Display Energy Hotspots in Android Apps

  2017

  Mian Wan, Yuchen Jin, Ding Li, Jiaping Gui, Sonal Mahajan, William G. J. Halfond
  In Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. Volume 2017.
  

• [5] Lightweight Measurement and Estimation of Mobile Ad Energy Consumption

  2016

  Jiaping Gui, Ding Li, Mian Wan, William G. J. Halfond
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS). May 2016.
  

• [4] How Does Code Obfuscation Impact Energy Usage?

  2016

  Cagri Sahin, Mian Wan, Philip Tornquist, Ryan McKenna, Zachary Pearson, William G. J. Halfond, James Clause
  In Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. Volume 2016.
  

• [3] String Analysis for Java and Android Applications

  2015

  Ding Li, Yingjun Lyu, Mian Wan, William G. J. Halfond
  In Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), September 2015
  Acceptance rate: 25.4% (74/291)
  Test cases and result

• [2] Detecting Display Energy Hotspots in Android Apps

  2015

  Mian Wan, Yuchen Jin, Ding Li, William G. J. Halfond
  In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), April 2015
  Acceptance rate: 24.8% (32/129)

• [1] A Covert Channel Using Event Channel State on Xen Hypervisor

  2013

  Qingni Shen, Mian Wan, Zhuangzhuang Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Sihan Qing, Zhonghai Wu
  In Information and Communications Security, pp. 125-134. Springer International Publishing, 2013.