Jialiang Wei

Jialiang Wei

Hasso Plattner Institute

Postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej's group at Hasso Plattner Institute. Leverage AI techniques to bridge communication gaps between users and development teams, ensuring aligned understanding and efficient requirement specification.

Research Topics

Requirements Engineering User Interface User Feedback App Store Mining

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mar. 2026 – Present

Research collaboration with Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Hamburg, Germany
Feb. 2025 – Jan. 2026

Research collaboration with Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej

Ph.D. in Computer Science

EuroMov DHM, IMT Mines Alès, France
Oct. 2021 – Jan. 2025

Supervisors: Gérard Dray, Pierre Louis Bernard, Anne-Lise Courbis, and Thomas Lambolais.

Enhancing Requirements Elicitation through App Stores Mining - Analyzing various data (including app descriptions, app introduction images, app reviews) of app stores through AI (Large Language Models, Visual Language Models, Diffusion Models, etc.) to assist software developers explore user needs and market trends.

Publications

LikeThis! Empowering App Users to Submit UI Improvement Suggestions Instead of Complaints

J. Wei*, A. Ebrahimi Pourasad* and W. Maalej

* Co-first author

International Conferernce on Software Engineering (ICSE'26), 2026

GUing: A Mobile GUI Search Engine using a Vision-Language Model

J. Wei, A.-L. Courbis, T. Lambolais, B. Xu, P. L. Bernard, G. Dray and W. Maalej

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025

On AI-Inspired UI-Design

J. Wei, A.-L. Courbis, T. Lambolais, B. Xu, P. L. Bernard, G. Dray and W. Maalej

IEEE Software, 2025

On the Automated Processing of User Feedback

W. Maalej, V. Biryuk, J. Wei, and F. Panse

Handbook on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering, Springer, 2025

Getting Inspiration for Feature Elicitation: App Store- vs. LLM-based Approach

J. Wei, A.-L. Courbis, T. Lambolais, B. Xu, P. L. Bernard, G. Dray and W. Maalej

International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'24), 2024

Boosting GUI Prototyping with Diffusion Models

J. Wei, A.-L. Courbis, T. Lambolais, B. Xu, P. L. Bernard, and G. Dray

International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'23 RE@Next!), 2023

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