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

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

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

In 2026, I will lead or participate in the following research topics:

• Code Generation: Coding Model, Coding Agent, GUI-Testing

🔥 News

• 2026.04:  🎉 One paper was accepted by ACL 2026!
• 2026.04:  🎉 One paper was accepted by FSE 2026!
• 2025.08:  🎉 One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2025 Main!
• 2025.08:  🎉 One paper was accepted by ASE 2025!

📝 Publications

• 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.
  In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’26). (CCF-A)
• PlayCoder: Making LLM-Generated GUI Code Playable.
  Zhiyuan Peng, Wei Tao#, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying, Yuan Luo, Yiwen Guo.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’26). (CCF-A)
• 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)
• 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)

# denotes co-first author

✨ Projects

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

💬 Academic Services

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2026

📝 Preprints

• 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.

🎖 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.