🎃 About Me

I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate at Monash University. I obtained my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2017 and 2020, respectively. My research interests focus on mobile security and software engineering. You can reach me at tianming.liu AT monash.edu.

📝 Publications

• [FSE 2025] Chenxu Wang^#, Tianming Liu^#, Yanjie Zhao, Minghui Yang, and Haoyu Wang. “LLMDroid: Enhancing Automated Mobile App GUI Testing Coverage with Large Language Model Guidance.” [Paper]

• [ISSTA 2025] Jiapeng Deng^#, Tianming Liu^#, Yanjie Zhao, Chao Wang, Lin Zhang, and Haoyu Wang. “Walls Have Ears: Demystifying Notification Listener Usage in Android Apps.” [Paper]

• [ACM SIGMETRICS 2025] Yanhui Guo, Dong Wang, Liu Wang, Yongsheng Fang, Chao Wang, Minghui Yang, Tianming Liu*, Haoyu Wang*. “Beyond App Markets: Demystifying Underground Mobile App Distribution Via Telegram.” [Paper]

• [FSE 2025 Industry Track] Tianming Liu, Jiapeng Deng, Yanjie Zhao, Xiao Chen, Xiaoning Du, Li Li, and Haoyu Wang. “Are iOS Apps Immune to Abusive Advertising Practices?” [Paper]

• [2030 Software Engineering Workshop, co-located with FSE 2025] Jiale Wu, Yanjie Zhao, Tianming Liu, and Haoyu Wang. “Mobile App Analysis in the New Era: Challenges and the Road Ahead.” [Paper]

• [USENIX Security 2024] Zikan Dong^#, Tianming Liu^#, Jiapeng Deng, Haoyu Wang, Li Li, Minghui Yang, Meng Wang, Guosheng Xu, Guoai Xu. “Exploring Covert Third-party Identifiers through External Storage in the Android New Era.” [Paper]

• [ASE 2024 Industry Track] Zikan Dong^#, Yanjie Zhao^#, Tianming Liu, Chao Wang, Guosheng Xu, Guoai Xu, Lin Zhang, and Haoyu Wang. “Same App, Different Behaviors: Uncovering Device-specific Behaviors in Android Apps.” [Paper]

• [A-Mobile 2024, co-located with ASE 2024] Chao Wang^#, Tianming Liu^#, Yanjie Zhao, Lin Zhang, Xiaoning Du, Li Li, Haoyu Wang. “Towards Demystifying Android Adware: Dataset and Payload Location.” [Paper]

• [A-Mobile 2024, co-located with ASE 2024] Liangxuan Wu, Yanjie Zhao, Chao Wang, Tianming Liu, and Haoyu Wang. “A First Look at LLM-powered Smartphones.” [Paper]

• [MSR 2024 Mining Challenge Track] Liangxuan Wu, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Tianming Liu, and Haoyu Wang. “ChatGPT Chats Decoded: Uncovering Prompt Patterns for Superior Solutions in Software Development Lifecycle.” [Paper]

• [Automated Software Engineering] Pengcheng Xia, Yanhui Guo, Zhaowen Lin, Jun Wu, Pengbo Duan, Ningyu He, Kailong Wang, Tianming Liu, Yinliang Yue, and Guoai Xu. “WalletRadar: towards automating the detection of vulnerabilities in browser-based cryptocurrency wallets.” [Paper]

• [WWW 2023] Yanjie Zhao^#, Tianming Liu^#, Haoyu Wang, Yepang Liu, John Grundy, Li Li. “Are Mobile Advertisements in Compliance with App’s Age Group?” [Paper]

• [ICSE 2022] Changlin Liu, Hanlin Wang, Tianming Liu, Diandian Gu, Yun Ma, Haoyu Wang, and Xusheng Xiao. “Promal: Precise Window Transition Graphs for Android via Synergy of Program Analysis and Machine Learning.” [Paper]

• [ICSE 2021, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award] Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Feng We, Tianming Liu, Xiapu Luo, and Yang Liu. “Atvhunter: Reliable version detection of third-party libraries for vulnerability identification in android applications.” [Paper]

• [TSE] Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Lingling Fan, Li Li, Sen Chen, Xiapu Luo, and Yang Liu. “Research on third-party libraries in android apps: A taxonomy and systematic literature review.” [Paper]

• [TSE] Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Yepang Liu, Yang Liu, Li Li, Haoyu Wang, and Xiapu Luo. “A Systematic Assessment on Android Third-party Library Detection Tools.” [Paper]

• [WWW 2020] Tianming Liu, Haoyu Wang, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, Feng Dong, Yao Guo, Liu Wang, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein. “MadDroid: Characterising and Detecting Devious Ad Content for Android Apps.” [Paper]

• [ASE 2020] Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Tianming Liu, Sen Chen, Li Li, Haoyu Wang, Yifei Xu, Xiapu Luo, and Yang Liu. “Automated Third-party Library Detection for Android Applications: Are We There Yet?” [Paper]

• [ASE 2019] Tianming Liu, Haoyu Wang, Li Li, Guangdong Bai, Yao Guo, Guoai Xu. “DaPanda: Detecting Aggressive Push Notification in Android Apps.” [Paper]

• [ESEC/FSE 2018] Feng Dong, Haoyu Wang, Li Li, Yao Guo, Tegawende F. Bissyande, Tianming Liu, Guoai Xu, and Jacques Klein. “FraudDroid: Automated Ad Fraud Detection for Android Apps.” [Paper]