🍦 About Me

Hi, there! I’m a Ph.D. student in the School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), under the supervision of Prof. Haoyu Wang. Previously, I received my B.Eng. degree at Northeastern University (NEU) in June 2023.

My research interests include, but are not limited to, LLM application security and LLM + SE.

If you would like to reach me, please email xinyihou@hust.edu.cn.

🌷 News

• 🔝 Excited to announce the 1st International Workshop on LLM App Store Analysis（LLMapp）, co-located with FSE 2025! Join us in Trondheim, Norway.
• 🔝 Excited to announce the 1st International Workshop on Large Language Model Supply Chain Analysis (LLMSC 2025), co-located with ISSTA 2025! Join us in Trondheim, Norway.
• [1 Apr 2025] Latest paper: “Model Context Protocol (MCP): Landscape, Security Threats, and Future Research Directions”! PDF
• [31 Mar 2025] Our paper titled “GPT Store Mining and Analysis” was accepted by Internetware 2025!
• [25 Mar 2025] Our paper titled “LLM App Squatting and Cloning” was accepted by FSE 2025, Industry Track!
• [11 Mar 2025] Our paper titled “On the (In)Security of LLM App Stores” was accepted by S&P 2025!
• [21 Nov 2024] Two papers on LLM Apps and Supply Chain were accepted by TOSEM 2030 SE Roadmap!
• [15-17 Nov 2024] We won the third prize in the Software Research Prototype System Competition of ChinaSoft 2024.
• [8-9 Nov 2024] I attended the AI+ Development Digital Summit in Shenzhen, China.
• [27 Aug 2024] Our paper titled “Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review” was accepted by TOSEM!
• [1-3 Dec 2023] I attended the CCF ChinaSoft 2023 Conference in Shanghai, China.
• [20-22 Oct 2023] I attended the CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL), Session 144, on the topic of Code Generation Based on large language models in Beijing, China.
• [28 Jun 2023] I received my B.Eng. degree at Northeastern University.
• [28 Sep 2022] I have become a member of the SECURITY PRIDE Research Group.

📜 Publications

(* Equal Contribution)

Peer-Reviewed

• Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review PDF DOI Repo
  Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao*, Yue Liu, Zhou Yang, Kailong Wang, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, David Lo, John Grundy, Haoyu Wang
  [TOSEM] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
• On the (In)Security of LLM App Stores PDF
  Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao*, Haoyu Wang
  [S&P’25] The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• LLM App Squatting and Cloning PDF
  Yinglin Xie*, Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao, Kai Chen, Haoyu Wang
  [FSE’25] The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Industry Track
• GPT Store Mining and Analysis PDF
  Dongxun Su*, Yanjie Zhao*, Xinyi Hou, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang
  [Internetware’25] The 16th International Conference on Internetware
• The Next Frontier of LLM Applications: Open Ecosystems and Hardware Synergy PDF
  Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao*, Haoyu Wang
  [FSEws2025] The Future Software Engineering Workshop, co-located with FSE 2025
• Towards Reliable Vector Database Management Systems: A Software Testing Roadmap for 2030 PDF
  Shenao Wang*, Yanjie Zhao*, Yinglin Xie, Zhao Liu, Xinyi Hou, Quanchen Zou, Haoyu Wang
  [FSEws2025] The Future Software Engineering Workshop, co-located with FSE 2025
• LLM App Store Analysis: A Vision and Roadmap PDF DOI
  Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang
  [TOSEM] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
• Large Language Model Supply Chain: A Research Agenda PDF DOI
  Shenao Wang, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Haoyu Wang
  [TOSEM] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
• Bridging Design and Development with Automated Declarative UI Code Generation PDF DOI
  Ting Zhou*, Yanjie Zhao*, Xinyi Hou, Xiaoyu Sun, Kai Chen, Haoyu Wang
  [FSE’25] The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering
• ClauseBench: Enhancing Software License Analysis with Clause-Level Benchmarking PDF DOI Repo
  Qiang Ke*, Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao, Haoyu Wang
  [ICSE’25] The 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Industry Challenge Track
• Models Are Codes: Towards Measuring Malicious Code Poisoning Attacks on Pre-trained Model Hubs PDF DOI Repo
  Jian Zhao*, Shenao Wang*, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Kailong Wang, Peiming Gao, Yuanchao Zhang, Chen Wei, Haoyu Wang
  [ASE’24] The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Industry Showcase
• GPTZoo: A Large-scale Dataset of GPTs for the Research Community PDF DOI Repo
  Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang
  [ASE’24] The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, NIER Track
• ChatGPT Chats Decoded: Uncovering Prompt Patterns for Superior Solutions in Software Development Lifecycle PDF DOI
  Liangxuan Wu, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Tianming Liu, Haoyu Wang
  [MSR’24] The 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Preprint

• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Landscape, Security Threats, and Future Research Directions PDF
  Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang
• Voices from the Frontier: A Comprehensive Analysis of the OpenAI Developer Forum PDF
  Xinyi Hou*, Yanjie Zhao*, Haoyu Wang

📚 Education

• 2019.09 - 2023.06, B.Eng., Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
• 2023.09 till now, Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

💼 Services

• Journal Reviewer
  Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
• Sub-Reviewer
  ISSTA’24, FSE’25, IMC’24/25, IWQoS’25, APSEC’24
• Publicity Chair
  The 1st International Workshop on LLM App Store Analysis (LLMapp 2025)

🏆 Honors and Awards

• 2023 - Outstanding Graduates of Liaoning Province
• 2023 - Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis of NEU
• 2022 - China National Scholarship
• 2022 - First Class Annual Outstanding Student
• 2020 - Inspur Scholarship
• 2020 - First Class Annual Outstanding Student