news | Jiayuan Zhou

Sep 16, 2026	🏆 Our ISSTA 2026 paper “Lingxi” received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (19 of 210 accepted papers)!
Jul 31, 2026	New preprint: “Reusing Past Repairs Through Hierarchical Trajectory Abstraction for Coding Agents” — reusing experience from past agent trajectories (project page)
Jul 02, 2026	New preprint: “Refploit: Facilitating Exploit Construction via Code-Agent Trajectory Repair”
Jun 18, 2026	Our paper was accepted by ASE 2026: “Assessing the Cross-Version Applicability of Java Library Vulnerability Exploits”
May 31, 2026	🎉 With test-time scaling (TestGRAD), which mines failure patterns from test attempts to pick the right patch, our 4-agent ensemble reached 84.2% on SWE-bench Verified (as of May 2026) 🚀
Apr 16, 2026	Our paper was accepted by ISSTA 2026: “Answer is Cheap, Show Me the Evidence! Augmenting Automated Vulnerability Assessment with Evidence”
Apr 16, 2026	Our paper was accepted by ISSTA 2026: “Lingxi: Repository-Level Issue Resolution Framework Enhanced by Procedural Knowledge Guided Scaling” (paper)
Mar 27, 2026	🎉 Our framework reached 81.2% on SWE-bench Verified (as of Mar 27, 2026) by reusing experience mined from past agent trajectories (STAIR), higher than every entry on the official leaderboard 🚀
Mar 20, 2026	Our paper was accepted by FSE 2026 (Industry Track): “Mitigating Implicit Inconsistencies in Patch Porting”
Mar 18, 2026	Our paper was accepted by TOSEM: “Detecting Protracted Vulnerabilities in Open Source Projects”
Oct 16, 2025	Our paper was accepted by ICSE’26: “Diffploit: Facilitating Cross-Version Exploit Migration for Open Source Library Vulnerabilities”. See you in Brazil🇧🇷～
Oct 14, 2025	🎉 Our developer-experience guided agent solution (Lingxi) achieved 71.2% with Kimi K2 on SWE-bench Verified, ranking #1 🚀 worldwide among the open-weight models! Details in the paper 👀
Aug 25, 2025	🎉 Our developer-experience guided agent solution (Lingxi) achieved 74.6% with Claude 4 on SWE-bench Verified, ranking #2! 🚀
Jan 29, 2025	Our paper was accepted by TOSEM: “An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems”
Jan 13, 2025	Our paper was accepted by FSE 2025: “One-for-All Does Not Work! Enhancing Vulnerability Detection by Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)”
Jan 13, 2025	Our paper was accepted by FSE 2025: “Code Change Intention, Development Artifact and History Vulnerability: Putting Them Together for Vulnerability Fix Detection by LLM”
Jan 11, 2025	Our paper was accepted by MSR 2025: “From Industrial Practices to Academia: Uncovering the Gap in Vulnerability Research and Practice”
Nov 01, 2024	Our paper was accepted by ICSE 2025: “Similar but Patched Code Considered Harmful – The Impact of Similar but Patched Code on Recurring Vulnerability Detection and How to Remove Them”
Sep 19, 2024	Our paper “An Empirical Study of Automatic Program Repair Techniques for Injection Vulnerabilities” was selected as Best Student Paper at ICSME’24!
Jun 13, 2024	Our paper was accepted by ICSME 2024: “An Empirical Study of Automatic Program Repair Techniques for Injection Vulnerabilities”
Apr 18, 2024	Our paper was accepted by FSE-Industry 2024: “Unveil the Mystery of Critical Software Vulnerabilities”
Mar 06, 2024	Welcome my daughter Avery to this world! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Mar 01, 2024	Our paper was accepted by ISSTA 2024: “Silent Taint-Style Vulnerability Fixes Identification”
Oct 01, 2023	Our paper was accepted by ICSE 2024: “Towards More Practical Automation of Vulnerability Assessment”