Jialu Zhang

Jialu Zhang

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

University of Waterloo

Biography

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Waterloo ECE. I obtained my CS PhD from Yale in 2023, advised by Ruzica Piskac. My research focuses on software engineering and programming educationg. It focuses on methods and tools that help students and developers understand, test, and improve programs.

Hiring: I am actively seeking 2+ Masters, PhDs, and interns. If you’re excited about software engineering and programming education, email me!

Interests
  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Education
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2023

    Yale University

  • BS in Computer Engineering, 2017

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Publications

Jialu Zhang, José Cambronero, Sumit Gulwani, Vu Le, Ruzica Piskac, Gustavo Soares, Gust Verbruggen (2024). PyDex: Repairing Bugs in Introductory Python Assignments using LLMs. In OOPSLA 2024.

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Mark Santolucito, Jialu Zhang, Ennan Zhai, Jurgen Cito, Ruzica Piskac (2022). Learning CI Configuration Correctness for Early Build Feedback. In SANER 2022.

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Jialu Zhang, Todd Mytkowicz, Mike Kaufman, Ruzica Piskac, Shuvendu K. Lahiri (2022). Using pre-trained language models to resolve textual and semantic merge conflicts (experience paper). In ISSTA 2022.

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Jialu Zhang, De Li, John C. Kolesar, Hanyuan Shi, Ruzica Piskac (2022). Automated Feedback Generation for Competition-Level Code. In ASE 2022.

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Jialu Zhang, Ruzica Piskac, Ennan Zhai, Tianyin Xu (2021). Static Detection of Silent Misconfigurations with Deep Interaction Analysis. In OOPSLA 2021.

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