Zhengyang Zhu (朱正阳)
I am Zhengyang Zhu (朱正阳), a second-year Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, supervised by Prof. Zibin Zheng. I am currently a visiting student at Hong Kong Baptist University, advised by Dr. Hong-Ning Dai, and I recently joined InplusLab-Agent at the School of Software Engineering, SYSU. I also conduct collaborative research at Pengcheng Laboratory. I am also a member of HenryLab-XR and the founder of RunminG-Lab.
Research interests: Extended Reality (XR), LLM for software engineering (LLM4SE), AI Agents (coding agents and agent security), Embodied AI.
Contact: zhuzhy57@mail2.sysu.edu.cn · tsingpig@163.com
News
- 2026-10 · Our preprint HarnessSecurity-Bench: Do Security Mechanisms Really Protect Coding Agent Harnesses? is available on arXiv.
- 2026-05 · Joined InplusLab-Agent at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2026-05 · Founded RunminG-Lab.
- 2025-09 · Our paper VRExplorer has been accepted to ASE 2025 (CCF-A).
- 2025-09 · Started my Ph.D. at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2025-06 · Received my B.Eng. from Nanjing Normal University.
Publications
HarnessSecurity-Bench: Do Security Mechanisms Really Protect Coding Agent Harnesses? arXiv preprint, October 2026. PDF Project
VRExplorer: A Model-based Approach for Semi-Automated Testing of Virtual Reality Scenes ASE 2025, November 2025. CCF-A IEEE Xplore PDF
Education
- Sep. 2025 – present, Ph.D., School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China
- Sep. 2021 – Jun. 2025, Bachelor, School of Computer Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Work Experience
- Mar. 2025 – Apr. 2025, Python Algorithm Lecturer, Baoyandao, Online
- Jul. 2024 – Aug. 2024, Research Intern (Computer Graphics), School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- Jul. 2023 – Aug. 2023, Unity Client Developer Intern, NetEase Games, Leihuo Studio Group Fuxi Metaverse Lab (Yaotai), Hangzhou, China
Honors and Awards
- Jun. 2024, 2nd Prize (National), Python Group, 15th LanQiao Cup National Programming Contest; Apr. 2024, 1st Prize (Provincial)
- May 2024, Bronze Medal, ‘Huawei Cup’ Jiangsu Collegiate Programming Contest (JSCPC)
- Mar. 2024, 1st Prize, 9th Nanjing Normal University Internet Technology Festival Programming Contest
- Aug. 2022, 3rd Prize (National), 15th Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition; May 2022, Special Prize (Provincial)
- May 2023, Bronze Medal, Jiangsu Collegiate Programming Contest (JSCPC)
- Apr. 2022, 2nd Prize (Provincial), C/C++ Group, 13th LanQiao Cup National Programming Contest
Skills
- English: CET-6 564
- Algorithm Competitions: LeetCode Contest Rating 2,154 (Top 2.06% nationwide); solved 670+ problems on LeetCode (profile)
- Programming Languages: C#, Python, C/C++, Java
- Tools & Frameworks: Unity, Unreal Engine, PyTorch