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Central South University

Changsha, China

I am Rambo (兰鹏), a PhD candidate at Central South University.

My research focuses on AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE), particularly the application of large language models and learning-based methods to software development and maintenance.

My recent work explores code generation and refinement, program comprehension and summarization, commit message generation, and intelligent support for collaborative software development.

Research Interests

Large Language Models for Software Engineering
Code Generation, Refinement, and Security
Program Comprehension and Code Summarization
Commit Message and Pull Request Generation
Retrieval-Augmented Software Engineering

You can reach me at rambohhh@csu.edu.cn.

selected publications

TOSEM

Delving into History: Retrieve Less but Augment More on Commit Message Generation

Peng Lan, Jiakun Liu, Xinyu Zhong, Ning Gui, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, and Zhifang Liao

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

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@article{lan2026history,
  title = {Delving into History: Retrieve Less but Augment More on Commit Message Generation},
  author = {Lan, Peng and Liu, Jiakun and Zhong, Xinyu and Gui, Ning and Bao, Lingfeng and Lo, David and Liao, Zhifang},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3794857},
}

TOSEM

Code Refinement with Repository Context: How Far are We?

Ke Wang, Peng Lan, Jiakun Liu, Shengbing Ren, Lingfeng Bao, Junxiao Han, David Lo, and Zhifang Liao

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

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@article{wang2026refinement,
  title = {Code Refinement with Repository Context: How Far are We?},
  author = {Wang, Ke and Lan, Peng and Liu, Jiakun and Ren, Shengbing and Bao, Lingfeng and Han, Junxiao and Lo, David and Liao, Zhifang},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3820059},
}

ACL Findings

Learning from Failures: Error Notebook-guided Secure Code Generation

Xinyu Zhong, Peng Lan, and Zhifang Liao

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, 2026

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@inproceedings{zhong2026failures,
  title = {Learning from Failures: Error Notebook-guided Secure Code Generation},
  author = {Zhong, Xinyu and Lan, Peng and Liao, Zhifang},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  pages = {23978--23990},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1200},
}