The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Yiling Lou

Yiling Lou
Yiling Lou she/her/hers

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Research Interests

  • Software Testing and Debugging
  • Agents & SE 
  • LLM for Code
  • Software Engineering & AI

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 527 - Software Testing and Analysis
  • CS 527 - Topics in Software Engineering
  • CS 598 SEG - Software Engr for GenAI

News Notes

  • 10/5/2026

    Yiling Lou, CS assistant professor, and her team, including CS professor Darko Marinov, won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award which will be presented at the ISSTA 2026 conference this month. The award, for Lou's first paper with her Illinois affiliation, is given to less than 10% of accepted papers and 2.5% of submitted papers. ISSTA is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis.