About Me

Jiawei Li (李嘉伟) is a Software Engineering Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Irvine, supervised by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed at STAIRS lab. He received his Master’s degree in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, and his Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Summer 2025: He is currently interning as an Applied scientist at Amazon.com Inc. in Seattle.

Research Interests

Commit message quality evaluation and generation
Test smell detection and analysis
AI-generated source code detection
Multi-LLM based agents for Software Engineering
Code review automation
Defect prediction
Machine learning
Large language models

His research interests mainly lie in the application of machine learning and large language models to the automation of Software Engineering-related tasks such as commit message quality evaluation, commit message generation, AI-generated code detection, defect prediction and more.

Services

Program Committee Member, 2026 International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, AI Models/Data track (EASE)
Reviewer (Full length technical paper), Automated Software Engineering
Reviewer, 2025 15th Berlin Machine Learning Workshop
Shadow Research Track Program Committee Member, 2026 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Reviewer (Full length technical paper), IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Shadow Research Track Program Committee Member, 2025 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Program Committee Member (Artifact Evaluation), 2025 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Reviewer (Full length technical paper), Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Graduate Mentor, Global Research Experience in Artificial inTelligence (GREAT) Program

Hobbies

Passion: Karate
Musical instrument i.e., finger style guitar

He is extremely passionate about Martial Arts such as Karate and Taekwondo.