π About Me
I am pursuing my PhD degree at the College of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
I have published over 10 papers at the AI/SE conferences and journals including ACL, TSE, TOSEM, EMNLP, and JSS. My research papers can be found on my Google Scholar.
Research Interests
My research focuses on:
- Code Generation
- Interpretability of LLMs
π₯ News
- 2025.05: Β ππ One paper is accepted by ACL!.
- 2025.05: Β ππ One paper is accepted by TSE!.
- 2025.05: Β ππ One paper is accepted by TOSEM!.
- 2025.05: Β ππ One paper is accepted by TOSEM!.
π Publications
Only publications for which I am the first author are listed here. The full list can be found via my Google Scholar profile.

Beyond Sequences: Two-dimensional Representation and Dependency Encoding for Code Generation.
Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Wei Cheng, Taolue Chen.
In The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, To appear, 2025. CCF A

Anchor Attention, Small Cache: Code Generation with Large Language Models.
Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Harald C. Gall, Taolue Chen.
In Transactions on Software Engineering, To appear, 2025. CCF A

Context-aware Code Generation with Synchronous Bidirectional Decoder.
Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Tingting Han, Taolue Chen.
Journal of Systems and Software, 2024. CCF B

Syntax-aware Retrieval Augmented Code Generation.
Xiangyu Zhang, Yu Zhou, Guang Yang, Taolue Chen.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings, 2023. CCF B
π Educations
- 2024.06 - now, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), major in Software Engineering.
- 2021.09 - 2024.04, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), major in Software Engineering.
- 2017.09 - 2021.06, Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyοΌJUST), major in Software Engineering.