I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li in the SaNDwich Lab. I also work closely with Prof. Collin McMillan at Notre Dame and Prof. Yu Huang at Vanderbilt University. Before joining Notre Dame, I received my B.Eng. degree in the same department at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), where I conducted research on recommender systems under the guidance of Prof. Yuhui Shi.
My research interests converge at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI),
Software Engineering (SE), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), where I conduct user
studies and build interactive tools to understand and improve how humans work with AI in
programming tasks. I have published in venues such as VL/HCC, ICSE, and TSE.
My research focuses on two directions:
I am actively seeking research internship or product team opportunities in the industry for Summer 2026, especially in areas related to AI-powered developer tools. I’m also always open to connecting, so feel free to reach out!
Ningzhi Tang, Emory Smith, Yu Huang, Collin McMillan, and Toby Jia-Jun Li
VL/HCC 2025
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Robert Wallace, Aakash Bansal, Zachary Karas, Ningzhi Tang, Yu Huang, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Collin McMillan
TSE 2025
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Ningzhi Tang*, Meng Chen*, Zheng Ning, Aakash Bansal, Yu Huang, Collin McMillan, and Toby Jia-Jun Li
VL/HCC 2024
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Ningzhi Tang
VL/HCC 2024: Graduate Consortium
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Ningzhi Tang*, Meng Chen*, Zheng Ning, Aakash Bansal, Yu Huang, Collin McMillan, and Toby Jia-Jun Li
PLATEAU 2023