Hi, I'm Wenhao Yang (杨文昊, pronounced like "when how young" ).

I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Software and Theory at School of Computer Science, Peking University, advised by Prof. Minghui Zhou at Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab, Software Engineering Institute. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security at the Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2023.

I am currently a research intern in the Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence (DKI) group at Microsoft Research Asia, working closely with Dr. Pengfei Gao and Dr. Dayi Lin (Microsoft CoreAI / GitHub Copilot).

My research interests lie in coding agents and AI governance, with a focus on reliable and responsible AI in open-source software. Feel free to reach out at yangwh@stu.pku.edu.cn!

🔥 News

2026.10: Our paper “File-Level Copying as Implicit Dependency: Forms, Rationales, and Impacts in Open Source” has been accepted to ICSE 2027! (CCF-A)
2026.08: 🔬 I joined Microsoft Research Asia as a Research Intern in the Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence (DKI) group, working closely with Dr. Pengfei Gao and Dr. Dayi Lin (Microsoft CoreAI / GitHub Copilot).
2026.08: Invited talk “To Ban or Not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions” at Community Over Code Asia 2026 in Beijing.
2026.06: Our paper “To Ban or Not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions” has been accepted to ASE 2026! (CCF-A) [arXiv]
2025.11: Invited talk “Building an Enterprise Open Source Risk Governance Immune System” at CCF ChinaSoft 2025, Wuhan.
2024.04: Our paper “PyRadar: Towards Automatically Retrieving and Validating Source Code Repository Information for PyPI Packages” has been accepted to FSE 2024! (CCF-A)

📝 Papers

arXiv “A First Look at Coding Agents’ Compliance with AI Contribution Rules in Open-Source Communities”, Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou.
arXiv “From Collaboration to Regulation: Characterizing Governance Practice in Three Deep Learning Open Source Communities”, Ruiqiao Qiu, Wenhao Yang, Minghui Zhou.
Preprint 2026 “AI Cannot Review What Humans Catch: An Empirical Study of Agent Instruction File Review”, Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou.
ICSE 2027 “File-Level Copying as Implicit Dependency: Forms, Rationales, and Impacts in Open Source”, Runzhi He, Audris Mockus, Wenhao Yang, Minghui Zhou. (CCF-A)
ASE 2026 “To Ban or Not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions”, Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou. (CCF-A) [arXiv]
arXiv “Internal Vulnerabilities, External Threats: A Grounded Framework for Enterprise Open Source Risk Governance”, Wenhao Yang, Minghui Zhou, Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar, Yehui Wang. (CCF-A) (Major Revision at TOSEM)
FSE 2024 “PyRadar: Towards Automatically Retrieving and Validating Source Code Repository Information for PyPI Packages”, Kai Gao, Weiwei Xu, Wenhao Yang, Minghui Zhou. (CCF-A)

💬 Invited Talks

2026.08, “To Ban or Not to Ban? How Open Source Projects Govern GenAI Contributions”, Community Over Code Asia 2026, Beijing.
2025.11, “Building an Enterprise Open Source Risk Governance Immune System”, CCF ChinaSoft 2025, Wuhan.

📖 Educations

2023.09 - 2028.06 (expected), Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Software and Theory, Peking University. Advisor: Prof. Minghui Zhou.
2019.09 - 2023.06, B.S. in Information Security, Harbin Institute of Technology. GPA: 93.53/100, Rank: top 2%.

🎖 Honors and Awards

2023, The First Prize of People’s Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology (Top 3%)
2022, Outstanding Student, Harbin Institute of Technology
2022, The First Prize of People’s Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology (Top 3%)
2020, Outstanding Student, Harbin Institute of Technology
2020, The First Prize of People’s Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology (Top 3%)

💻 Teaching Experience

2024 Spring, Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Analysis on Open Source Software (Graduate-level, in English), Peking University.

🔧 Skills

Programming: Java, Python, C, Linux, Rust

🎸 Hobbies

Fitness, Singing, Playing the guitar, Watching movies

Wenhao Yang杨文昊