Yuechen is a four-year Ph.D. candidate with Beihang University. His interests include both theoretical and empirical research on foundations of quantum software engineering (QSE), and applications of quantum information theory /quantum computing. The current studies during his Ph.D. program have a focus on quantum software testing.

Education

• Ph.D. (2022.9-Now)
  School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
• Joint Ph.D. student program (2025.10-2026.9)
  Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
• B.Eng. (2018.9-2022.6)
  School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.

Academic Service and Activity

Invited Reviewer

• 2026: Empirical Software Engineering
• 2025: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Empirical Software Engineering, Knowledge-Based System
• 2024: IEEE Software

Talk

• Yuechen Li. Exploring Quantum Optimization for Software Engineering. 1st Workshop on Quantum Optimization Algorithms and Applications (co-located with 2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation), June 2025, Hangzhou, China. (Lightning talk) [Slides]

Funding

• Visiting Ph.D. student program, China Scholarship Council (CSC), China (2025.10-2026.9)

Award (Selective)

• Outstanding graduate of regular higher education institutions in Beijing (北京市普通高等学校优秀毕业生, 2022.7)
• Outstanding student of Beihang University (北京航空航天大学校级优秀生, 2021.9)

Contact

Welcome to have an academic or technical discussion with me via liyuechen@buaa.edu.cn 😊.
I welcome academic and technical discussions related to my research interests. Please include your name, affiliation, and the topic you would like to discuss in your email.