List of Publications

C##: Conference, J##: Journal

*: Corresponding author
①: Equal contribution

C21 ReLog: Execution-Aware Logging with Runtime Feedback for LLM-Oriented Debugging
Xin Wang, Yang Feng, Xiaoqian Jiao, Yang Zhang, Zhenhao Li, Zishuo Ding.
ASE'26The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

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C20 AgentExecutor: Partial Code Execution via Agentic Context Generation
Junkai Chen, Chengran Yang, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Xin Xia, David Lo.
ASE'26The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

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C19 Bridging User Feedback and System Diagnosis: Reproducing Mobile Performance Issues from Reviews
Zhengquan Li, Zhenhao Li, Sidong Feng, Cuiyun Gao, Tao Zhang, Zishuo Ding.
ISSTA'26The 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.

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C18 SecureVibeBench: Benchmarking Secure Vibe Coding of AI Agents via Reconstructing Vulnerability-Introducing Scenarios
Junkai Chen, Huihui Huang, Yunbo Lyu, Junwen An, Jieke Shi, Chengran Yang, Ting Zhang, Haoye Tian, Yikun Li, Zhenhao Li, Xin Zhou, Xing Hu, David Lo.
ACL'26The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, main conference.

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C17 Towards Secure Logging: Characterizing and Benchmarking Logging Code Security Issues with LLMs
He Yang Yuan①, Xin Wang①, Kundi Yao, An Ran Chen, Zishuo Ding*, Zhenhao Li*.
FSE'26The 34th ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

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C16 LLM4Perf: Large Language Models Are Effective Samplers for Multi-Objective Performance Modeling
Xin Wang, Zhenhao Li, Zishuo Ding.
ICSE'26The 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

C15 An Empirical Study of Waterfall-style Multi-Agent Workflows for Class-Level Code Generation
Wasique Islam Shafin, Md Nakhla Rafi, Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen.
PROMISE'26The 22nd International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering.

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C14 Defects4Log: Benchmarking LLMs for Logging Code Defect Detection and Reasoning
Xin Wang, Zhenhao Li*, Zishuo Ding*.
ASE'25The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

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J05 Towards Explainable Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models
Qiheng Mao①, Zhenhao Li①, Xing Hu, Kui Liu, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun.
TSE'25IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

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C13 Understanding Practitioners’ Expectations on Clear Code Review Comments
Junkai Chen①, Zhenhao Li①, Qiheng Mao, Xing Hu, Kui Liu, Xin Xia.
ISSTA'25The 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.

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J04 NLPerturbator: Studying the Robustness of Code LLMs to Natural Language Variations
Junkai Chen①, Zhenhao Li①, Xing Hu, Xin Xia.
TOSEM'25ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

J03 A Roadmap for Modern Code Review: Challenges and Opportunities
Zezhou Yang, Cuiyun Gao, Zhaoqiang Guo, Zhenhao Li, Kui Liu, Xin Xia, Yuming Zhou.
TOSEM'25ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

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J02 An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities
Zezhou Yang, Sirong Chen, Cuiyun Gao, Zhenhao Li, Xing Hu, Kui Liu, Xin Xia.
TOSEM'25ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

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C12 Benchmarking Open-source Large Language Models For Log Level Suggestion
Yi Wen Heng, Zeyang Ma, Zhenhao Li, Dong Jae Kim, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen.
ICST'25The 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.

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C11 Reasoning Runtime Behavior of a Program with LLM: How Far Are We?
Junkai Chen, Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Ge Li, Xin Xia.
ICSE'25The 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

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C10 ThinkRepair: Self-Directed Automated Program Repair
Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Shaohua Wang, Zhenhao Li, Limin Zeng, Xiaohu Yang.
ISSTA'24The 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.

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C09 Code Search is All You Need? Improving Code Suggestions with Code Search
Junkai Chen, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo.
ICSE'24The 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

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C08 Are They All Good? Studying Practitioners' Expectations on the Readability of Log Messages
Zhenhao Li, An Ran Chen, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Weiyi Shang.
ASE'23The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

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C07 Did We Miss Something Important? Studying and Exploring Variable-Aware Log Abstraction
Zhenhao Li, Chuan Luo, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Weiyi Shang, Shilin He, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
ICSE'23The 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

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J01 Studying Duplicate Logging Statements and Their Relationships with Code Clones
Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Jinqiu Yang, Weiyi Shang.
TSE'22IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

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C06 DeepLV: Suggesting Log Levels Using Ordinal Based Neural Networks
Zhenhao Li, Heng Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Weiyi Shang.
ICSE'21The 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

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C05 Where Shall We Log? Studying and Suggesting Logging Locations in Code Blocks
Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Weiyi Shang.
ASE'20The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

C04 Towards Providing Automated Supports to Developers on Writing Logging Statements
Zhenhao Li.
ICSE'20 (DS)The 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Doctoral Symposium.

C03 Studying and Suggesting Logging Locations in Code Blocks
Zhenhao Li.
ICSE'20 (SRC)The 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Student Research Competition.

C02 Characterizing and Detecting Duplicate Logging Code Smells
Zhenhao Li.
ICSE'19 (SRC)The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Student Research Competition.

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C01 DLFinder: Characterizing and Detecting Duplicate Logging Code Smells
Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Jinqiu Yang, Weiyi Shang.
ICSE'19The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.