Hengcheng Zhu

Email: [email protected]

Room 3663, 3/F (Lifts 31/32), Academic Building,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

I am a PhD student at the CSE department of HKUST, under the supervision of Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung in CASTLE research group. I obtained my B.Eng. degree at SUSTech in 2020. My research interest is related to software engineering. Currently, I am working on research projects in software testing.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Since Aug. 2020
- In CASTLE research group, supervised by Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung
- Was a visiting internship student, Jul. 2019 - Dec. 2019
Southern University of Science and Technology: B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
- In Software Quality Lab, supervised by Prof. Yepang Liu
- With outstanding graduate honor and distinguished UG thesis honor
- Visiting researcher, Jul. 2020 - Dec. 2020

Publications

* denotes corresponding author, # denotes equal contribution

[ASE 2021] Mingwei Zheng, Jun Yang, Ming Wen^*, Hengcheng Zhu, Yepang Liu, and Hai Jin. Why Do Developers Remove Lambda Expressions in Java?. In Proceedings of the 36^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Melbourne, Australia. Nov. 2021. [Preprint][Slides]
[ASE 2020] Hengcheng Zhu^#, Lili Wei^#, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu^*, Shing-Chi Cheung^*, Qin Sheng, and Cui Zhou. MockSniffer: Characterizing and Recommending Mocking Decisions for Unit Tests. In Proceedings of the 35^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Melbourne, Australia. Sep. 2020. [DOI][Preprint][Slides][Talk]
[SANER 2020] Zhaoxu Zhang^#, Hengcheng Zhu^#, Ming Wen, Yida Tao, Yepang Liu^*, and Yingfei Xiong. How Do Python Framework APIs Evolve? An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 27^th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. London, Ontario, Canada. Feb. 2020. [DOI][Preprint][Slides][Talk]

Honors and awards

Postgraduate studentship, HKUST, 2020 - 2024
Distinguished UG thesis, SUSTech, Jun., 2020
Outstanding graduate, SUSTech, May, 2020
Annual outstanding students scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2017, 2018, and 2019
Outstanding teaching assistant, CSE department, SUSTech, Jan. and Jul. 2019
Outstanding freshmen scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2016

Services

Co-reviewer, The 36^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021 Research track)
Co-reviewer, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSME) in 2021
Co-reviewer, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) in 2020 and 2021
Co-reviewer, The 36^th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2021 SE track)
Co-reviewer, Journal of Software (JOS-CN) in 2020
Student volunteer, The 28^th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019)

Teaching

I worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses at HKUST.

COMP 3021 Java Programming (Fall 2021-22)
COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2020-21)

I worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses at SUSTech.

CS102A Introduction to Computer Programming (A) (Java, Spring 2018, 2019 and 2020)
CS309 Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Fall 2019)
CS307 Database Principal (Spring 2019)
CS205 C/C++ Programming Language (Fall 2018)
CS102B Introduction to Computer Programming (B) (Java, Fall 2018)
CS101B Introduction to Computer Science (B) (Fall 2017)