I am Junkai Chen (陈俊凯), a Ph.D. student at Singapore Management University, advised by Prof. David Lo. I received my master’s degree at Zhejiang University, where I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xing Hu and Prof. Xin Xia.

My research interests lie generally in the intersection of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

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News

• [Pinned] 🤗 Feel free to check recent SE conference papers at SEConfPaperList 〰️

• [30/3/25] 😆 Our paper about code review is accepted by ISSTA 2025.

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Publications

• [TOSEM'25] NLPerturbator: Studying the Robustness of Code LLMs to Natural Language Variations
  Junkai Chen*, Zhenhao Li*, Xing Hu, and Xin Xia.
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  TLDR: Test robustness of llms by perturbations.
  📄 PDF | 💻 Code
• [ISSTA'25] Understanding Practitioners’ Expectations on Clear Code Review Comments
  Junkai Chen*, Zhenhao Li*, Qiheng Mao, Xing Hu, Kui Liu, and Xin Xia.
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  TLDR: Investigate what constitutes clear code review comments.
  📄 PDF | 💻 Code
• [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.
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  TLDR: Check if LLMs can reason intermediate runtime information of code.
  📄 PDF | 💻 Code
• [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.
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  TLDR: Combine different code search methods with code suggestions.
  📄 PDF | 💻 Code

* denotes equal contribution.

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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

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Services

Program Committee / Journal Reviewer

• 2026: ICSE (Shadow PC)
• 2025: MSR (Junior PC), DL4C@ICLR, LTB@ICPE

Others

• External Reviewer: ICSE, FSE, ASE, TOSEM, MSR, FCS, JSS (Chinese), etc.
• Student Volunteer: Internetware 2023