{"id":1189,"date":"2026-09-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:37:17","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-yuqi-huai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr. Yuqi Huai!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation.png\" alt=\"Overview of Yuqi Huai\u2019s dissertation: revealing (DoppelTest), reproducing (DeFT), and diversifying (MozartTest) bug-finding capabilities for autonomous driving system testing\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation.png 1920w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuqi_Huai_Dissertation-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuqi Huai has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled <em>Toward Effective Autonomous Driving System Testing: Revealing, Reproducing, and Diversifying Bug-Finding Capabilities<\/em>, and completed his Ph.D. in Software Engineering at UC Irvine. His dissertation introduces doppelganger testing, deterministic frame-based testing (the basis of DeFT, our ICSE 2026 paper), and white-box scenario generation for autonomous driving systems. Yuqi has since started at Google. Many thanks to his committee members, Sam Malek and Alfred Chen. Congratulations, Dr. Huai!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuqi Huai has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Toward Effective Autonomous Driving System Testing: Revealing, Reproducing, and Diversifying Bug-Finding Capabilities, and completed his Ph.D. in Software Engineering at UC Irvine. His dissertation introduces doppelganger testing, deterministic frame-based testing (the basis of DeFT, our ICSE 2026 paper), and white-box scenario generation for autonomous driving systems. Yuqi&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1189\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Dr. Yuqi Huai!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}