Zhiyuan Peng (Lucius Peng) is the 2nd-year Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Dr. Xin Yin, Prof. Chenhao Ying and Prof. Yuan Luo. I was grateful to intern at Tencent LIGHTSPEED Studios and MSRA.

My research interest includes Code Generation, Large Language Model, and Software Testing. I have published serveral papers at the top international conferences such as EMNLP and ASE. I developed a few well-known approaches including:

• RepoGenesis: Zero2One Code Generation
• SolEval and PrefGen: Solidity Code Generation

In 2025, I will lead or participate in the following research topics:

• Code Generation: Agentic Code Gen, Smart Contract
• Large Language Models (LLMs): Agent, GUI-Testing

🔥 News

• 2025.08:  🎉 One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2025 Main!
• 2025.08:  🎉 One paper was accepted by ASE 2025!

📝 Publications

• SolEval: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Repository-level Solidity Smart Contract Generation.
  Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin#, Rui Qian, Peiqin Lin, Yongkang Liu, Chenhao Ying, Yuan Luo.
  In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’25 Main). (TH-CPL-A)
• PrefGen: A Preference-Driven Methodology for Secure Yet Gas-Efficient Smart Contract Generation.
  Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin#, Zijie Zhou, Chenhao Ying, Chao Ni, Yuan Luo.
  In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE’25). (CCF-A)

# denotes co-first author

📝 Preprints

• Making LLM-Generated GUI Code Playable: From Evaluation to Refinement, Zhiyuan Peng, Wei Tao#, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying, Yuan Luo, Yiwen Guo, FSE’26 Major Revision. (CCF-A)

• RepoGenesis: Benchmarking End-to-End Microservice Generation from Readme to Repository., Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin#, Pu Zhao, Fangkai Yang, Lu Wang, Ran Jia, Xu Chen, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, ACL’26 (Score: 4.5 4 4). (CCF-A)

• A Preference-Driven Methodology for Efficient Code Generation, Yuqi Li, Zijie Zhou, Zhiyuan Peng, Junhao Dong, Haochen You, Renye Yan, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. (JCR-Q1)

• MulChain: Enabling Advanced Cross-Modal Queries in Hybrid-Storage Blockchains, Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin#, Gang Wang, Chenhao Ying, Wei Chen, Xikun Jiang, Yibin Xu, Yuan Luo, Arxiv.

• RepoTransAgent: Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Repository-Aware Code Translation., Ziqi Guan, Xin Yin#, Zhiyuan Peng, Chao Ni, Arxiv.

✨ Projects

• YimMenu Contributor (Open-source project with 1,600+ ⭐ on GitHub) - Repository
• MindSpore Contributor (Huawei’s domestic deep learning framework) - Project Link

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2021.10 First Prize in the National College Student English Competition Final

📖 Educations

• 2024.09 - Present, Ph.D. student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• 2022.09 - 2024.06, Master, Nanjing University.
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Bachelor, Hohai University.