• 22 Dec 2025 Two papers are accepted by FSE 2026 (direct acceptance rate: 9.5%): Reducing Cost of LLM Agents with Trajectory Reduction, and GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization. Congratulations to Wei and Yuan-an!
• 18 Dec 2025 I am invited to join the program committee of ASE 2026.
• 17 Dec 2025 One more paper, Agent-Based Ensemble Reasoning for Repository-Level Issue Resolution, got accpeted by ICSE 2026 after a major revision. Congratulations to Zhao!
• 12 Nov 2025 I am invited to serve as the program co-chair for AIware. Please consider submitting to us.
• 5 Nov 2025 I am invited to join the program committee of ISSTA 2026.
• 16 Oct 2025 Three papers are accepted by ICSE 2026: More with Less: An Empirical Study of Turn-Control Strategies for Efficient Coding Agents, Enhancing Issue Localization Agent with Tool-Interactive Training, and LLM-based Agents for Automated Bug Fixing: How Far Are We?
• 25 Sep 2025 Our paper Repo2Run: Automated Building Executable Environment for Code Repository at Scale is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight Paper [pdf]. Congratulations to Ruida! The framework is available at GitHub.
• 12 Sep 2025 Our paper RepoMasterEval: Evaluating Code Completion via Real-World Repositories is accepted by the Industry Track of ASE 2025.
• 14 Aug 2025 Our paper CodeVisionary: An Agent-based Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in Code Generation is accepted by the Research Track of ASE 2025.
• 11 Aug 2025 Invited to serve as the Co-chair for the Industry Track of FORGE 2026. This year, we will feature invited talks from leading practitioners and innovators at the forefront of AI-driven software engineering. Stay tuned!
• 1 Aug 2025 We are happy to publish the technical report of Trae Agent, the SOTA agent on the SWE-bench Verified Leaderboard.
• 24 Jun 2025 Selected as the Distinguished Reviewer for FSE'25.
• 7 Jul 2025 I am invited to give keynote talks at AIware'25 and the AgenticSE workshop, both co-located with ASE'25 in Seoul.
• 18 Jun 2025 Invited to join the program committee of the FSE'26.
• 17 Jun 2025 Our paper Go-Oracle: Automated Test Oracle for Go Concurrency Bugs is accepted by the Technical Track of ESEM 2025.
• 13 Jun 2025 Invited to join the program committee of the Industrial Track of SANER 2026 and the first International Workshop on Autonomous Agents in Software Engineering (AgenticSE) colocated with ASE 2025.
• 16 May 2025 Our paper SoRFT: Issue Resolving with Subtask-oriented Reinforced Fine-Tuning is accepted by the Main Track of ACL 2025. Congratulations to Zexiong!

• LLM4Code
  • [Techinical Report] Trae Agent: An LLM-based Agent for Software Engineering with Test-time Scaling
  • [ICSE'26] Tool-integrated Reinforcement Learning for Repo Deep Search
  • [ACL'25] SoRFT: Issue Resolving with Subtask-oriented Reinforced Fine-Tuning
  • [COLING'25] Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Study
  • [NeurIPS'25] Repo2Run: Automated Building ExecutableEnvironment for Code Repository at Scale
  • [ICSE'26] An Empirical Study on LLM-based Agents for Automated Bug Fixing
  • [ASE'25 Industry Track] RepoMasterEval: Evaluating Code Completion via Real-World Repositories
• GUI Testing
  • [FSE'24 Industry] Neat: Mobile App Layout Similarity Comparison based on Graph Convolutional Networks
  • [TSE] Characterizing and Finding SystemSetting-Related Defects in Android Apps
  • [ASE'22 Industry] Fastbot2: Reusable Automated Model-based GUI Testing for Android Enhanced by Reinforcement Learning
  • [ICSE'24 SEIP] Hawkeye: Change-targeted Testing for Android Apps based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Software Testing
  • [ASE'23] Effective Concurrency Testing for Go via Directional Primitive-constrained Interleaving Exploration
  • [ESEM'21] Testing Smart Contracts: Which Technique Performs Best?
  • [APSEC'19] SolAnalyser: A Framework for Analysing and Testing Smart Contracts
  • [FASE'19] CLTestCheck: Measuring Test Effectiveness for GPU Kernels

[Part-time Postgraduate Student Mentor] School of Computer Science, Fudan University. Mar 2022 - Present

[Sub-supervisor] MSc Projects. School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. Apr 2018 - Aug 2018, Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

[Teaching Assistant, Tutor and Marker] Software Testing. School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. Jan 2018 - Apr 2018, Jan 2019 - Apr 2019, Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

[Marker] Computer Programming Skills and Concepts. School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. Nov 2017 - Dec 2017, Dec 2018 - Jan 2019

[Demonstrator] Introduction to Java Programming. School of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh. Sep 2017 - Dec2017, Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

Scholarship

• School of Informatics Scholarship (fully-funded PhD scholarship)
• Outstanding Graduate Scholarship at Xuzhou University of Technology
• China National Scholarship of 2014⁄15 Academic Year
• China National Encouragement Scholarship of 2013⁄14 Academic Year
• China National Scholarship of 2012⁄13 Academic Year

Honours

• Spot Bonus at ByteDance
• Nominee for Teaching Awards: Best Student Who Tutors Award
• Certificate of Achievement for Participating in the 6th Annual HPCAC Student Cluster Competition
• Top Ten Role Models of Study in Xuzhou University of Technology
• Excellent Graduate of Xuzhou University of Technology
• Jiangsu Province-Level Excellent Student Cadre