I am Junkai Chen (陈俊凯), an incoming Ph.D. student at Singapore Management University, advised by Prof. David Lo. I received my master’s degree at Zhejiang University, where I was advised by Prof. Xing Hu and Prof. Xin Xia.
My research interests are generally about the intersection of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.
News
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[Pinned] 🤗 Feel free to check recent SE conference papers at SEConfPaperList 〰️
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[30/3/25] 😆 Our paper about code review is accepted by ISSTA 2025.
Publications
- [TOSEM'25] NLPerturbator: Studying the Robustness of Code LLMs to Natural Language Variations
Junkai Chen*, Zhenhao Li*, Xing Hu, and Xin Xia.More
TLDR: Test robustness of llms by perturbations.
PDF and Code: TBA - [ISSTA'25] Understanding Practitioners’ Expectations on Clear Code Review Comments
Junkai Chen*, Zhenhao Li*, Qiheng Mao, Xing Hu, Kui Liu, and Xin Xia. - [ICSE'25] Reasoning Runtime Behavior of a Program with LLM: How Far Are We?
Junkai Chen*, Zhiyuan Pan*, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Ge Li, and Xin Xia. - [ICSE'24] Code Search is All You Need? Improving Code Suggestions with Code Search
Junkai Chen, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia, and David Lo.
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
* denotes equal contribution.
Awards
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award., ACM SIGSOFT, 2024
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R.C., 2024
- ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Grant, 2025
Services
Program Committee / Journal Reviewer
- 2025: MSR (Junior PC), DL4C@ICLR, LTB@ICPE
Others
- External Reviewer: ICSE, FSE, ASE, TOSEM, MSR, FCS, JSS (Chinese), etc.
- Student Volunteer: Internetware 2023
Experiences
- Ph.D. Student, Singapore Management University, Aug. 2025 - present
- Research Engineer, Singapore Management University, Jan. 2025 - present
- Advisor: David Lo
- M.E. in Software Engineering, Zhejiang University, Sep. 2022 - Jun 2025
- B.E. in Computer Science, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022