Renyi Zhong
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Renyi Zhong, Ryan
Ph.D. Student, ARISE Lab
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
About Me

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at the ARISE Lab at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu.

My research focuses on quality assurance in software maintenance, particularly for logging statements and code comments.

Education
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Ph.D. Student
    Aug. 2022 - Present
  • Wuhan University
    Bachelor's Degree
    Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
Honors & Awards
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong
    2022
  • Outstanding Graduates of Wuhan University
    2022
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China
    2020
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China
    2019
Academic Services
  • Reviewers: TOSEM'26, ISSRE'26 Fast Abstract Track, ISSRE'25 ReSAISE, ASEJ
  • Subreviewers: DSN'26, FSE'26, ICSE'25, ASE'25, ISSTA'25, ISSTA'24, FSE'24
Teaching Assistant
  • CSCI1130A Introduction to Computing Using Java Fall 2022
  • ENGG1110D Problem Solving By Programming Spring 2023
  • CSCI3180 Principles of Programming Language Fall 2023
Selected Publications (view all )
CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency

Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Zhihan Jiang, Guangba Yu, Yichen Li, David Lo, Michael R. Lyu

TSE'26 (CCF A) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2026, Just Accepted

[Paper]

AutoLogger: A Multi-Agent Framework for the End-to-End Automated Logging

Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Yichen Li, Michael R. Lyu

ICPC'26 (CCF B) 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

[Paper]

Single-Language Evidence Is Insufficient for Automated Logging: A Multilingual Benchmark and Empirical Study with LLMs

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Yulun Wu, Jinxi Kuang, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

TOSEM (Under Review) Under review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

[Paper]

LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Jinxi Kuang, Wenwei Gu, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

TOSEM'25 (CCF A) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 35(1), Article 16, January 2026

[Paper]

Larger Is Not Always Better: Exploring Small Open-source Language Models in Logging Statement Generation

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Guangba Yu, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

TOSEM'25 (CCF A) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2025, Just Accepted

[Paper]

Towards Quality Assurance of Natural Language in Code

Renyi Zhong

ICSE'25 (CCF A) Doctoral Symposium, 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-DS) 2025, Ottawa, Canada

[Paper]

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