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Zhiqing Zhong

"Wit, depth, and aesthetics—always on the move."

I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Pinjia He. Prior to this, I earned my B.Eng. degree from the School of Physics and Optoelectronics at South China University of Technology in 2023.

My current research focuses on LLM-based software engineering automation, with a specific interest in verifiable code generation, maintenance, and operations.

Zhiqing Zhong

News

2025.12

🎉 One paper was accepted by FSE'26.

2025.11

Served as a Reviewer for TOSEM.

2025.4

🎉 One paper was accepted by FSE'25.

2025.3

Served as a Reviewer for TSE.

2025.1

🎉 One paper was accepted by ICLR'25.

2024.10

Served as a Junior Program Committee for MSR'25.

2024.7

🎉 One paper was accepted by ICSE'25.

Selected Publications

FSE 2026

BackportBench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Automated Backporting of Patches

Zhiqing Zhong, Jiaming Huang, Pinjia He

ICLR 2025

OpenRCA: Can large language models locate the root cause of software failures?

Junjielong Xu, Qinan Zhang, Zhiqing Zhong, Shilin He, Chaoyun Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Dan Pei, Pinjia He, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang

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FSE 2025

Towards Understanding Performance Bugs in Popular Data Science Libraries

Haowen Yang, Zhengda Li, Zhiqing Zhong, Xiaoying Tang, Pinjia He

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ICSE 2025

An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem

Zhiqing Zhong, Shilin He, Haoxuan Wang, BoXi Yu, Haowen Yang, Pinjia He

ICSE 2024

Deep Learning or Classical Machine Learning? An Empirical Study on Log-Based Anomaly Detection

Boxi Yu, Jiayi Yao, Qiuai Fu, Zhiqing Zhong, Haotian Xie, Yaoliang Wu, Yuchi Ma, Pinjia He

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ISSTA 2023

ROME: Testing Image Captioning Systems via Recursive Object Melting

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Jiaqi Li, Yixing Yang, Shilin He, Pinjia He

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ISSTA 2022

Automated Testing of Image Captioning Systems

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Xinran Qin, Jiayi Yao, Yuancheng Wang, Pinjia He

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Education

CUHK-Shenzhen

2023 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science

SCUT

2019 - 2023
B.Eng. in Optoelectronics Information

Experience

Academic Service

  • Reviewer: TOSEM, TSE, MSR
  • Artifact Reviewer: ISSRE