Hengcheng Zhu's Scholar Profile

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

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the CSE department of HKUST. I work with Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung in the CASTLE research group. I am going to visit the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in February 2024 to conduct research with Prof. Andreas Zeller. I obtained my B.Eng. degree at SUSTech in 2020. My research focuses on software testing and program analysis. Currently, I am working on research projects in mocking, IoT testing, and metamorphic testing. During my spare time, I visit various hiking trails in Hong Kong and take nice photos there. I am also a tech enthusiast and I contribute to open-source projects such as Homebrew.

Education

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security: Visiting Researcher, Starting from Feb. 2024
- Advised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Since Aug. 2020
- In CASTLE research group, advised by Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung
Southern University of Science and Technology: B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
- In Software Quality Lab, advised by Prof. Yepang Liu
- With outstanding graduate honor and distinguished UG thesis honor

* denotes corresponding author, # denotes equal contribution

TOSEM 2023 Hengcheng Zhu, Lili Wei, Valerio Terragni, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung^*, Jiarong Wu, Qin Sheng, Bing Zhang, and Lihong Song. StubCoder: Automated Generation and Repair of Stub Code for Mock Objects. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2024. DOI Preprint arXiv
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. DOI 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 Artifact
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 Artifact

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

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

COMP 1021 Introduction to Computer Science (Python Programming) (Fall 2023-24)
COMP 3021 Java Programming (Fall 2022-23)
COMP 3021 Java Programming (Fall 2021-22)
COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (C/C++ Programming) (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)