In the classroom
Build, inspect, revise.
I use programming exercises and test failures as teaching material. The goal is to make invisible assumptions visible, then give students a way to check them.
About
Teaching · supervision · mentoring
Make complex systems learnable.
I teach software engineering and agentic systems through short feedback loops: explain a concept, build a small artifact, and test what it can actually do.
For teams
Turn a demo into a method.
Workshops help teams move from an exciting agent prototype to an evaluation loop with clear evidence, useful baselines, and feedback they can repeat.
For researchers
Make the claim testable.
I supervise projects that connect a research question to an executable artifact, a strong baseline, and an honest account of what the result does and does not show.
PhD supervision
Research with a path to practice.
Zhiqing Zhong
September 2023–present · co-supervisor
- B.S., South China University of Technology
- Publication at ICSE 2025
- Visiting researcher at Aalto University
Mentoring
Where my mentees went next.
Ten junior researchers and students I mentored on research projects. All ten co-authored peer-reviewed papers with me at ICSE, ESEC/FSE, or ISSTA, and eight are now Ph.D. students.
- Qiuyang MangGraph database testing and retromorphic testingNow: Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley
- Jiayi YaoLog-based anomaly detectionNow: Ph.D. student, The University of Chicago
- Haotian XieLog-based anomaly detectionNow: Ph.D. student, Rutgers University
- Zhiqing ZhongAutomated log analysis and Python ecosystem deprecationNow: Ph.D. student, CUHK–Shenzhen (co-supervised, see above)
- Jiaqi LiTesting of image captioning systemsNow: Ph.D. student, CUHK–Shenzhen
- Yiyan HuAutomated testing of named entity recognition systemsNow: M.S. student, UC San Diego
- Aoyang FangGraph database testingNow: Ph.D. student, CUHK–Shenzhen
- Xinran QinAutomated testing of image captioning systemsNow: Ph.D. student, Sun Yat-sen University
- Yixing YangTesting of image captioning systemsNow: M.S. student, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- Haowen YangPackage-level deprecation in the Python ecosystemNow: Ph.D. student, HKUST (Guangzhou)
Teaching experience
Courses taught at CUHK–Shenzhen.
- CSC4001Software Engineering · 2024–25, semester 2
- CSC4001Software Engineering · 2022–23, semester 2
- DDA6050Analysis of Algorithms · 2022–23, semester 1
- CSC4001Software Engineering · 2021–22, semester 2
- CSC1001Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Methodology · 2021–22, semester 1
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