Publications and Pre-prints

For a more complete list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar page.
* denotes co-first authors, † denotes corresponding author/project lead.

2025

• Privacy Bills of Materials (PriBOM): A Transparent Privacy Information Inventory for Collaborative Privacy Notice Generation in Mobile App Development
  Zhen Tao*, Shidong Pan*†, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun, Omar Haggag, John Grundy, Jingjie Li, Liming Zhu
  Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs/PETS), acceptance rate: 20.5% (45/220).


• An Analysis of Privacy Regulations and User Concerns of Finance Mobile Applications
  Alessandro Pedace, Omar Haggag, Shidong Pan, John Grundy
  Information and Software Technology (IST) [Paper] [Code]


• A Big Step Forward? A User-Centric Examination of iOS App Privacy Report and Enhancements
  Liu Wang, Dong Wang, Shidong Pan, Zheng Jiang, Haoyu Wang, Yi Wang
  Proceedings of The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP), acceptance rate: 14.8%. [Paper]


• Privacy Meets Explainability: Managing Confidential Data and Transparency Policies in LLM-Empowered Science
  Yashothara Shanmugarasa, Shidong Pan, Ming Ding, Dehai Zhao, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
  Proceedings of The Extended Abstracts of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), Late-Breaking Work, acceptance rate: 32.8%. [Paper]


• Do Chase Your Tail! Missing Key Aspects Augmentation in Textual Vulnerability Descriptions of Long-tail Software through Feature Inference
  Linyi Han, Shidong Pan†, Zhenchang Xing, Jiamou Sun, Sofonias Yitagesu, Xiaowang Zhang†, Zhiyong Feng
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [Paper]

2024

• Repo2Label: Regulation Driven Privacy Labels for Generative AI-based Applications
  Meixue Si*, Shidong Pan*†, Dianshu Liao, Xiaoyu Sun, Zhen Tao, Wenchang Shi, Zhenchang Xing
  ArXiv Pre-print [Paper]


• $A^3$-CodGen: A Repository-Level Code Generation Framework for Code Reuse with Local-Aware, Global-Aware, and Third-Party-Library-Aware
  Dianshu Liao, Shidong Pan†, Xiaoyu Su, Xiaoxue Ren, Qing Huang†, Zhenchang Xing, Huan Jin, Qinying Li
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [Paper] [Code]


• "I Don't Use AI for Everything": Exploring Utility, Attitude, and Responsibility of AI-empowered Tools in Software Development
  Shidong Pan, Litian Wang, Tianyi Zhang, Zhenchang Xing, Yanjie Zhao, Qinghua Lu, Xiaoyu Sun
  ArXiv Pre-print [Paper]


• Right to be Forgotten in the Era of Large Language Models: Implications, Challenges, and Solutions
  Dawen Zhang, Pamela Finckenberg-Broman, Thong Hoang, Shidong Pan, Zhenchang Xing, Mark Staples, Xiwei Xu
  AI and Ethics, was appeared on ACM FAccT - ChatLLM'23 workshop [Paper]


• A Large-scale Investigation of Semantically Incompatible APIs behind Compatibility Issues in Android Apps
  Shidong Pan, Tianchen Guo, Lihong Zhang, Pei Liu, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun
  ArXiv Pre-print [Paper]


• A New Hope: {Contextual Privacy Policies} for Mobile Applications And an Approach Toward Automated Generation
  Shidong Pan, Zhen Tao, Thong Hoang, Dawen Zhang, Tianshi Li, Zhenchang Xing, Xiwei Xu, Mark Staples, Thierry Rakotoarivelo, David Lo
  Proceedings of The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024 fall round acceptance rate: 17.3%. [Paper] [Code]


• Is It a Trap? A Large-scale Empirical Study And Comprehensive Assessment of Online {Automated Privacy Policy Generators} for Mobile Apps
  Shidong Pan, Dawen Zhang, Mark Staples, Zhenchang Xing, Jieshan Chen, Xiwei Xu, James Hoang
  Proceedings of The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024 summer round acceptance rate: 19% (98/515). [Paper] [Repository]


• To Be Forgotten or To Be Fair: Unveiling Fairness Implications of Machine Unlearning Methods
  Dawen Zhang, Shidong Pan, Thong Hoang, Zhenchang Xing, Mark Staples, Xiwei Xu, Lina Yao, Qinghua Lu, Liming Zhu
  AI and Ethics [Paper]

2023

• Test-takers Have a Say: Understanding the Implications of the Use of AI in Language Tests
  Dawen Zhang, Thong Hoang, Shidong Pan, Yongquan Hu, Zhenchang Xing, Mark Staples, Xiwei Xu, Qinghua Lu, Aaron Quigley
  ArXiv Pre-print [Paper]


• Toward the Cure of Privacy Policy Reading Phobia: Automated Generation of Privacy Nutrition Labels From Privacy Policies
  Shidong Pan, Thong Hoang, Dawen Zhang, Zhenchang Xing, Xiwei Xu, Qinghua Lu, Mark Staples
  ArXiv Pre-print [Paper]