Xinye Zhao

Xinye Zhao

Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, with research interests in AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE), Software Engineering Security, and Systems for Machine Learning.

Security in the Age of AI Teammates: An Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests on GitHub

Published in arXiv, 2026

Empirical study of autonomous coding agents’ security-related pull requests, their review outcomes, and human scrutiny patterns on GitHub.

Recommended citation: Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Xinye Zhao, Vinicius Carvalho Lopes, Beatrice Casey, Joanna C. S. Santos. (2026). "Security in the Age of AI Teammates: An Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests on GitHub." arXiv.
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