About me

I am currently a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Riverside, supervised by Prof. Qian Zhang. Before that, I got M.S. degree from Nanjing University, where I was advised by Prof. Qing Gu (顾庆) and Zhiwei Jiang (蒋智威). I received my B.E. degree from Central South University in 2022.

My research interests lie in Coding Agengts and NLP4SE. I am particularly passionate about exploring how agents can assist in software development, from code generation and debugging to broader aspects of software engineering.

I am always open to potential collaborations or research opportunities. Feel free to reach out to me at zhaoling.chen@email.ucr.edu.

🔥 News

• 2026.05:  🎉🎉 EvoClaw has been accepted to ICML 2026. See you in Seoul!

📑 Publications / Preprints

(* denotes equal contribution)

• [ICML 2026] EvoClaw: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution
  Gangda Deng*, Zhaoling Chen*, Zhongming Yu, Haoyang Fan, Yuhong Liu, Yuxin Yang, Dhruv Parikh, Rajgopal Kannan, Le Cong, Mengdi Wang, Qian Zhang, Viktor Prasanna, Xiangru Tang, Xingyao Wang
  [paper] [code] [leaderboard]

• [ACL 2025] LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization
  Zhaoling Chen*, Xiangru Tang*, Gangda Deng*, Fang Wu, Jialong Wu, Zhiwei Jiang, Viktor Prasanna, Arman Cohan, Xingyao Wang
  [paper] [code]

• [ACL Finding 2025] Multi-Prompting Decoder Helps Better Language Understanding
  Zifeng Cheng*, Zhaoling Chen*, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Shiping Ge, Yuliang Liu, and Qing Gu
  [paper]

• [ICML 2025] Adaptivestep: Automatically dividing reasoning step through model confidence
  Yuliang Liu, Junjie Lu, Zhaoling Chen, Chaofeng Qu, Jason Klein Liu, Chonghan Liu, Zefan Cai, Yunhui Xia, Li Zhao, Jiang Bian, Chuheng Zhang, Wei Shen, Zhouhan Lin
  [paper]

👩‍🎓 Educations

• 2025.09 - Present, Ph.D. Student
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside (UCR)
• 2022.09 - 2025.06, Master student
  School of Computer Science, Nanjing University (NJU)
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate Student
  School of computer Science and Engineering, Central South University (CSU)