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About Me

My name is Zhihao Gong. I am a 4th-year PhD student at Peking University, under the supervision of Prof. Dan Hao. My research focus is Software Engineering and Coding Agents.

Email: zhihaogong[AT]stu[DOT]pku[DOT]edu[DOT]cn

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Education & Experience

Peking University. Sept. 2023 – Present
- PhD student, Software Engineering.
- Supervisor: Prof. Dan Hao, Collaborators: Prof. Jie M. Zhang, and Prof. Zeyu Sun

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Sept. 2026 – Present
- Visiting Scholar.
- Supervisor: Prof. Yiling Lou

Tianjin University. Sept. 2019 – Jun. 2023
- B.E., Software Engineering.
- Supervisor: Prof. Junjie Chen

Publications

* Equal contribution; † Corresponding author.

[TOSEM'26] MOCA: A Hierarchical Semantic-Enhanced Code Edit Framework for Multilingual Code Co-Evolution.
- Zhihao Gong, Zeyu Sun, Xin Yin, Yizhou Chen, Qingyuan Liang, Guoqing Wang, Jie M Zhang, Dan Hao†.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
[EMNLP'26 main] DSEffi-Bench: Demystifying Large Language Models’ Capability in Efficient Data Science Code Generation.
- Zhihao Gong*, Junzhe Yu*, Dong Huang, Zeyu Sun, Jie M. Zhang, Dan Hao†.
- Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

[ACL'26 main] TRACE: Evaluating execution efficiency of LLM-based code translation.
- Zhihao Gong, Zeyu Sun, Dong Huang, Qingyuan Liang, Jie M Zhang, Dan Hao†.
- The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

[TOSEM'26] Beyond Methods: An Empirical Study of File-Level Production-Test Co-evolution and Its Implications for Automation.
- Guoqing Wang, Mincan Li, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Dan Hao†.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

[TOSEM'26] LAMDA: Leveraging Large Language Models for Better API Misuse Detection via Multi-Agent Collaboration.
- Yangsen Wang, Yizhou Chen, Zhihao Gong, Dan Hao†.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
[TOSEM'26] Do Advanced Language Models Eliminate the Need for Prompt Engineering in Software Engineering?
- Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Sixiang Ye, Zhihao Gong, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Qingyuan Liang, Dan Hao†.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
[TOSEM'26] Bipartite-Grammar–Aware Pretraining for XML-SQL Code Updating.
- Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Guoqing Wang, Yizhou Chen, Lu Zhang†, Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
[ASE'24 research track] Mutual Learning-Based Framework for Enhancing Robustness of Code Models via Adversarial Training
- Yangsen Wang, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Junjie Chen, Dan Hao†.
- Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.
[ICSE'24 research track] Improving smart contract security with contrastive learning-based vulnerability detection.
- Yizhou Chen, Zeyu Sun, Zhihao Gong, Dan Hao†.
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering.
[TOSEM'24] Try with simpler—an evaluation of improved principal component analysis in log-based anomaly detection.
- Lin Yang, Junjie Chen†, Shutao Gao, Zhihao Gong, Hongyu Zhang, Yue Kang, Huaan Li.
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

Academic Service

Student Volunteer
- ASE, 2025, Seoul, South Korea
- ISSTA, 2026, San Francisco, USA
Journal Reviewer
- CSUR
- TOSEM
Conference Reviewer
- AAAI (2025, 2026)
- MSR (2027 Junior PC)
- SANER (2027 Agentic AI4SE Track)
Sub/Co-Reviewer
- ICSE (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027)
- ESEC/FSE (2023, 2024)
- ASE (2023, 2024)

Honors and Awards

Merit Student, Peking University, 2026
National Scholarship, Tianjin University, 2021