Changshu Liu

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PhD Student in Computer Science
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
email: cl144@illinois.edu
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About me

I received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and the Columbia University, in 2020 and 2023, respectively. I am currently working on my PhD degree under the supervision of Reyhaneh Jabbarvand at UIUC.

News

[Oct 2025] CES got accepted by ICSE 2026.

Research

My research interests include

  • LLM for Software Engineering

  • Code Reasoning

  • Agentic Framework for Software Engineering

  • Program Analysis

Recent Publications

  1. Liu, Changshu, Yang Chen, and Reyhaneh Jabbarvand. “Assessing Coherency and Consistency of Code Execution Reasoning by Large Language Models.” Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026). 2025 pdf

  2. Liu C, Chen Y, Jabbarvand R. CodeMind: Evaluating Large Language Models for Code Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09664, 2024. pdf

  3. Liu, Changshu, and Reyhan Jabbarvand. “A tool for in-depth analysis of code execution reasoning of large language models.” Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-DEMO 2025). 2025. pdf

  4. Liu, Changshu, et al. “Automated code editing with search-generate-modify.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2024. pdf

  5. Liu, Changshu, et al. “Self-supervised consensus representation learning for attributed graph.” Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on multimedia (ACM MM 2021). 2021. pdf


Teaching

Fall 2025, CS598:Machine Learning for Software Engineering, TA, UIUC
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