About
I am a third-year CS PhD student at Purdue University advised by Prof. Lin Tan. My research focuses on applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to Software Engineering. Specifically, I develop AI-driven methods, such as LLM Agents, for code generation and other SE tasks, aimed at accelerating implementation and improving reliability.
- AI Software Engineering Large Language Models LLM Agents
Publications
A test-driven LLM agent for repository-level code generation that combines a Test Harness Mechanism (THM), a tailored toolset for retrieval & debugging, and a reflection-based refinement workflow (RRW). Pass@1: 69.08% (REPOCOD), 81.77% (RepoEval), outperforming best agentic baselines by 9.49 and 2.17 pp.
REPOCOD, a code generation benchmark with 980 problems collected from 11 popular real-world projects. In our evaluations of ten LLMs, none of them achieve more than 30 pass@1 on REPOCOD, indicating the necessity of stronger LLMs to assist developers in real-world software development.
SELP (Safe Efficient LLM Planner), a novel approach for generating plans that adhere to user-specified constraints while optimizing for time-efficient execution. In drone navigation, SELP outperforms SOTA LLM planners by 10.8% in safety rate and by 19.8% in plan efficiency. For robot manipulation, SELP achieves a 20.4% improvement in safety rate.
LocRDF, a novel storage system for RDF graphs via key-value store supporting ontology reasoning. LocRDF achieves high storage efficiency (32.9% of Jena, 19.8% of AllegroGraph on LUBM30) and cuts query time by up to 98% over Jena and ~50% over AllegroGraph on complex queries.
Mentoring
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Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science — Purdue University2023.08 - Now
- B.S. in Computer Science and Technology — Tianjin University2019.09 - 2023.05
Honors
- Best Paper Award Finalist — ICRA — 2025
- Outstanding Graduate — Tianjin University — 2023
- First Prize of Tianjin University — Challenge Cup National College Students Science and Technology Competition — 2022
- First Class Scholarship — Tianjin University — 2021
- Advanced Individual for Academic Performance — Tianjin University — 2021
- Great Team — Summer Social Activity, Tianjin University — 2020
- Special Prize — FLTRP·ETIC Cup — 2019
Personal
Beyond research, I'm an easy-going person who enjoys hiking, playing basketball, and capturing moments with my camera. Feel free to connect with me on Instagram if you'd like to know me outside academia!