Hengcheng Zhu (朱恒成)

Education

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: M.Phil., 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, Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020
  • Supervised by Prof. Yepang Liu
  • With outstanding graduate honor and distinguished UG thesis honor
  • Visiting student since Jul. 2020

Publications

• [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, Sept. 2020. [DOI]
• [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. [Preprint] [Talk] [Slides] [DOI]

Research experiences

I have been working on these research projects with my supervisors and labmates, some of them are ongoing.

• Effective Identification of Bug-Inducing Commits for Fault Localization and Program Repair (HKRGC-GRF 16207120)
  • HKUST, Since Jul. 2020
• Detecting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts via Static Analysis and Natural Language Processing
  • SUSTech, Since Jan. 2020
  • Supported by the Climbing Program of Guangdong Province (广东大学生科技创新培育专项资金) (PDJH2020C0060)
• Automated Software Quality Assurance Techniques for Taming Application Issues Induced by the Evolution of Mobile Computing Platform (NSFC 61802164)
  • SUSTech, Since Jul. 2019
• On Unit Test Generation for the Regression Testing of Banking Systems
  • HKUST and WeBank, Since Jul. 2019
• Automated Detection of Inifinite Loops in Android Applications via Static Analysis
  • SUSTech and Huawei, Oct. 2019 - Jul. 2020
• Empirical Study on API Evolution in Python
  • SUSTech, Feb. 2019 - Oct. 2019

Honors and awards

• Postgraduate scholarship, HKUST, 2020 - 2021
• Distinguished UG thesis, SUSTech, Jun., 2020
• Outstanding graduate, SUSTech, May, 2020
• Annual outstanding students scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2019
• Outstanding UG teaching assistant, CSE department, SUSTech, Jul. 2019
• Outstanding UG teaching assistant, CSE department, SUSTech, Jan. 2019
• Annual outstanding students scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2018
• Annual outstanding students scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2017
• Outstanding freshmen scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2016

Services

• Student volunteer, The 28^th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), Jul. 2019, Beijing, China

Teaching

I worked as a teaching assistant in these courses at SUSTech

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