ICSE 2026 | First author

Beyond Final Code: A Process-Oriented Error Analysis of Software Development Agents in Real-World GitHub Scenarios

Zhi Chen, Wei Ma, Lingxiao Jiang

48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), Research Track.

Paper

SANER 2025 | First author

Evaluating Software Development Agents: Patch Patterns, Code Quality, and Issue Complexity in Real-World GitHub Scenarios

Zhi Chen, Lingxiao Jiang

32nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2025), Research Track.

Paper

ASE 2024 | First author

Promise and Peril of Collaborative Code Generation Models: Balancing Effectiveness and Memorization

Zhi Chen, Lingxiao Jiang

39th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Research Track.

Paper

arXiv preprint | First author

Rethinking the Value of Agent-Generated Tests for LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents

Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi, Chao Peng, Xiaodong Gu, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07900.

Paper

arXiv preprint | First author

Are Performance-Optimization Benchmarks Reliably Measuring Coding Agents?

Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01211.

Paper

ML4CS 2025 | Third author

AgentGuard: An Active Threat Discovery System for Package Confusion Using Multi-Agent Collaboration

Wei Ma, Yu Li, Zhi Chen, Ye Liu, Lingxiao Jiang, Qiang Hu, Junyi Tao

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security (ML4CS 2025).

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TSE 2026 | Third author

ConfuScope: A Multi-Agent Framework via Hybrid Search and Content-Aware Analysis for Robust Package Confusion Detection

Yu Li, Wei Ma, Zhi Chen, Ye Liu, Lingxiao Jiang, Junyi Tao, Hao Liu, Yongqiang Lyu, Qiang Hu

Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).

Paper

arXiv preprint | Third author

Executing as You Generate: Hiding Execution Latency in LLM Code Generation

Zhensu Sun, Zicheng Lin, Zhi Chen, Chenguang Yang, Ming Zhou, Lijun Li, David Lo

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00491.

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arXiv preprint | Second author

Reinforcement Learning Foundations for Deep Research Systems: A Survey

Wenjun Li, Zhi Chen, Jingru Lin, Hannan Cao, Wei Han, Sheng Liang, Zhi Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Dexun Li, Chen Zhang, Yong Liu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06733.

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Manuscript | Fifth author

Speculative Forking: Turning Idle Wait into Parallel Exploration for Repository Environment Setup

Yuling Shi, Mingchu Zhong, Zhensu Sun, Weihan Peng, Zhi Chen, Shilin He, Chengcheng Wan, Kai Cai, Hongyu Zhang, David Lo, Xiaodong Gu