Tianyi Zhang
Assistant Professor at Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTianyi Zhang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University with eight years of experience bridging academic research and practical tool-building in software evolution, automated programming, and program analysis. A PhD from UCLA and former postdoctoral scholar at Harvard, he focuses on automating development, testing, and maintenance workflows—particularly systematic edits and assurance—to make large-scale code changes safer and more comprehensible. His background includes internships and collaborations with Microsoft Research and Salesforce where he built developer tools and automation for code review, test generation, and data consistency. Known for combining rigorous program-analysis research with hands-on systems (e.g., code-review and REST API generation prototypes), he pursues solutions that meaningfully reduce developer effort while handling real-world engineering constraints.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS/Phd, Software Engineering, 3.95/4, MS/Phd, Software Engineering, 3.95/4 at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree of science, Information Security, 3.83/4, Bachelor's degree of science, Information Security, 3.83/4 at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (4)
ranking9
science8
react7
computer-science7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tianyi-zhang/interactive-program-synthesis
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
tianyi-zhang/Examplore
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.