Yinfang CHEN

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Ph.D. Candidate
yinfang3 AT illinois DOT edu
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

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Hi! I am Yinfang Chen, a fourth-year Computer Science Ph.D. candidate “watched” by my “cornfield-watchman-professor” Tianyin Xu in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I earned my Master of Computing degree from the School of Computing (SoC) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

Research Interests

System Reliability, ML for System, System Security, Cloud Computing

News

May 13, 2024 I have joined Microsoft Research as a summer intern!
Sep 11, 2023 Our work has been accepted by EuroSys’24!!
Aug 12, 2023 I am finally back to the cornfields after ~8 months!
Aug 1, 2023 I had GREAT experiences in MSRA and Jialin’s group of NUS! Thanks everyone I met there!
Feb 1, 2023 Currently, I am on leave due to an visa issue:( and expect to get back to UIUC in 2023 Fall..
Dec 24, 2022 Our work Rainmaker has been accepted by NSDI’23! Thanks everyone in the project group!

Selected Papers

  1. AIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework to Evaluate AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Clouds
    Yinfang ChenManish Shetty, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Jonathan Mace, Chetan Bansal, Rujia Wang, and Saravan Rajmohan
    Nov 2024
  2. Large Language Models as Configuration Validators
    In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’25), Nov 2025
  3. Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
    Anna Mazhar, Saad Sher Alam, William Zheng, Yinfang ChenSuman Nath, and Tianyin Xu
    In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’25), Nov 2025
  4. Automatic Root Cause Analysis via Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents
    Yinfang Chen, Huaibing Xie, Minghua MaYu Kang, Xin Gao, Liu Shi, Yunjie Cao, Xuedong Gao, Hao Fan, Ming WenJun Zeng, Supriyo Ghosh, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Qingwei LinSaravan RajmohanDongmei Zhang, and Tianyin Xu
    In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’24), Apr 2024
    Deployed at Microsoft
  5. Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
    Manish ShettyYinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Dax Vandevoorde, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman NathChetan Bansal, and Saravan Rajmohan
    In Proceedings of 15th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’24), Apr 2024
  6. Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker
    Yinfang ChenXudong SunSuman NathZe Yang, and Tianyin Xu
    In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’23), Apr 2023
    Featured by The Weekend Read
  7. SoK: History is a Vast Early Warning System: Auditing the Provenance of System Intrusions
    Muhammad Adil InamYinfang Chen, Akul Goyal, Jason Liu, Jaron Mink, Noor Michael, Sneha Gaur, Adam Bates, and Wajih Ul Hassan
    In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’23), May 2023
  8. Shadewatcher: Recommendation-guided cyber threat analysis using system audit records
    Jun ZengXiang Wang, Jiahao Liu, Yinfang ChenZhenkai LiangTat-Seng Chua, and Zheng Leong Chua
    In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’22), May 2022
  9. WATSON: Abstracting Behaviors from Audit Logs via Aggregation of Contextual Semantics
    Jun ZengZheng Leong ChuaYinfang ChenKaihang JiZhenkai Liang, and Jian Mao
    In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’21), Feb 2021