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Education, selected publications, experience, and research interests.

General Information

Full Name Haichuan Hu
Location Hong Kong SAR
Email haichuan.hu@connect.polyu.hk
Phone +852 5531 0793
Google Scholar Google Scholar
GitHub github.com/Tomsawyerhu
Homepage tomsawyerhu.github.io

Research Interests

  • Emotional Support
  • Personalized Alignment
  • Large Language Models
  • LLM Agents
  • AI for Software Engineering

Education

  • Jan. 2026 - Present
    Ph.D. Student, Department of Computing
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
    • Research area: Emotional Support
    • Supervisor: Prof. Wenjie Li
  • Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2024
    Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
    • GPA: 85/100
    • Supervisor: Prof. Zhenyu Chen
  • Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
    Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
    • GPA: 87/100 (top 25%)
    • Supervisor: Prof. Zhenyu Chen

Selected Publications

  1. Learning from Repair Experience: Self-Evolving Agents for Automated Vulnerability Repair
    Haichuan Hu, Guoqing Xie, Quanjun Zhang, Jiawei Liu, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, and Liang Xiao
    In 49th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, CCF-A, 2027
  2. RESCUE-BENCH: Towards Relation-Aware Multi-Party Emotional Support Conversation Systems
    Haichuan Hu, Yang Xiao, Mingni Tang, Jiawen Duan, Quanjun Zhang, Congqing He, Hao Zhang, Jiashuo Wang, Johan F. Hoorn, and Wenjie Li
    In Findings of the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2026
  3. MultiFixer: A Coordinator-Proposer Based Multi-Agent Framework For Fixing Multi-Hunk Bugs
    Haichuan Hu, Chunrong Fang, Ye Shang, Jiawei Liu, Weifeng Sun, Guoqing Xie, Chenxing Zhong, and Quanjun Zhang
    In 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, CCF-A, 2026
  4. PSearch: Search-based Patch Generation in the Era of LLM-based Automated Program Repair
    Haichuan Hu, Ye Shang, Weifeng Sun, and Quanjun Zhang
    In 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, CCF-A, 2026
  5. ComPass: Contrastive Learning for Automated Patch Correctness Assessment in Program Repair
    Quanjun Zhang, Ye Shang, Haichuan Hu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, and Liang Xiao
    Empirical Software Engineering, CCF-B, 2026
  6. A Survey of Large Language Models for Legal Tasks: Progress, Prospects and Challenges
    Congqing He, Haichuan Hu, Yanli Li, Hao Zhang, and Quanjun Zhang
    Computer Science Review, JCR Q1. equal contribution , 2026
  7. Tree-CoT-RT: An Explainable Multi-Path Tree-Guided Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
    Hao Zhang, Jiahao Wang, Zhenke Duan, Xin Yin, Haichuan Hu, Hualong Chen, Suyi, Congqing He, Yike Tan, and Yu-N Cheah
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026
  8. Can GPT-O1 Kill All Bugs? An Evaluation of GPT-Family LLMs on QuixBugs
    Haichuan Hu, Ye Shang, Guolin Xu, Congqing He, and Quanjun Zhang
    In IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automated Program Repair. Workshop , 2025
  9. Machine Translation Testing via Syntactic Tree Pruning
    Quanjun Zhang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Weisong Sun, Haichuan Hu, and Qingyu Wang
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, CCF-A, 2024
  10. Self-Evolving Coding Agents
    Hao Zhou, Haichuan Hu, Ye Shang, and Quanjun Zhang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.03392 , 2026
  11. Personalized Alignment in the Era of LLMs: A Review of Methodologies, Datasets, Evaluation, and Applications
    Haichuan Hu, Xiao Yang, Jiashuo Wang, Quanjun Zhang, Mingni Tang, Changhe Song, Ye Shang, Congqing He, and Wenjie Li
    TechRxiv preprint , 2026

Industry and Research Experience

  • Jul. 2024 - Dec. 2025
    Backend Developer, PolarDB
    Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China
    • Contributed to the product development of PolarDB, Alibaba Cloud's cloud-native relational database.
  • Apr. 2024 - Jun. 2024
    Copilot and Incident Analytics Project
    Microsoft, Suzhou, China
    • Built an LLM-based incident consultation system and an internal Copilot knowledge question-answering system with retrieval and document synchronization.
  • Jun. 2023 - Sep. 2023
    Software Engineering Intern
    Alibaba.com, Hangzhou, China
    • Designed and executed a MySQL migration of approximately 200 million records while preserving data consistency and integrity.
  • Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021
    Software Engineering Intern
    Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China
    • Managed MySQL cluster machines and developed Go scripts for routine health checks and failure recovery.

Selected Open-Source Project

  • Chinese-WebNovel-Skill
    A modular Codex skill for planning, drafting, continuing, and revising Chinese web novels.
    • Python; 904 stars | 100 forks (updated October 21, 2026).