Selected Publications

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

Published Papers

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
USENIX Security 2024, Summer round acceptance rate: 19% (98/515). [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
USENIX Security 2024, Fall round acceptance rate: 17.3%. [Paper]

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
Springer, AI and Ethics, 2024 [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
Springer, AI and Ethics, 2024 (was appeared on ACM FAccT - ChatLLM'23 workshop) [Paper]

Context-Aware Code Generation Framework for Code Repositories: Local, Global, and Third-Party Library Awareness
Dianshu Liao, Shidong Pan†, Xiaoyu Su, Xiaoxue Ren, Qing Huang, Zhenchang Xing, Huan Jin, Qinying Li
Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024 [Paper]

Pre-prints

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
Pre-print [Paper]

Don't 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
Pre-print, Under Major Revision of a Core-A* SE Journal [Paper]

"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
Pre-print [Paper]

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