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Hao Zhang (张昊) (Holger Zhang)

A PhD student majoring in Software Engineering, at the DevOps+ Research Laboratory of Nanjing University.

About Me

I am a PhD student in Software Engineering at the DevOps+ Research Laboratory, Software Institute of Nanjing University, supervised by Guoping Rong. Prior to this, I obtained my M.Eng. degree at Nanjing University and completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Soochow University.

My research interests include AIOps and LLM4SE (logging practices, code generation & review & repair, and multi-agents), and related fields.

Education

  • 2025 - present: PhD student majoring in Software Engineering, Software Institute, Nanjing University.
  • 2023 - 2025: M.Eng. in Software Engineering, Software Institute, Nanjing University.
  • 2019 - 2023: B.S. in Computer Science, School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University.

Publications

  • Hao Zhang, Dongjun Yu, Lei Zhang, Guoping Rong*, Yongda Yu, Haifeng Shen, He Zhang, Dong Shao, Hongyu Kuang. AUCAD: Automated Construction of Alignment Dataset from Log-Related Issues for Enhancing LLM-based Log Generation. In the 16th International Conference on Internetware (Internetware 2025), June 20–22, 2025, Trondheim, Norway. 13 pages. (to appear) DOI:10.1145/3755881.3755889. preprint: arXiv:2412.18835.
  • Dongjun Yu, Xiao Yan, Zhenrui Li, Jipeng Xiao, Haochuan He, Yongda Yu, Hao Zhang, Guoping Rong*, Xiaobo Huang. SynthCoder: A Synthetical Strategy to Tune LLMs for Code Completion. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15495, 2025.

Projects

  • Jiangsu Graduate Practical Innovation Plan Project (江苏省研究生实践创新计划项目), Key Technology Research of Capacity Insight and Elastic Scaling for Cloud-Native Application (云原生应用容量洞察与弹性伸缩关键技术研究), 2024, completed, project leader.

Awards

  • 2025, Outstanding Graduate (Postgraduate) Student, Nanjing University. (2025届南京大学研究生优秀毕业生)
  • 2024, National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, Nanjing University. (2024年研究生国家奖学金)
  • 2023, Outstanding Graduate Student, Soochow University. (2023届苏州大学优秀毕业生)
  • 2023, Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Design (Thesis), Soochow University. (2023届苏州大学本科优秀毕业设计/论文)
  • 2024, The 3rd “ECloud Cup” Innovation Competition of Computing Network Application, University track, Grand prize, CMCC. (第三届“移动云杯”算力网络应用创新大赛 高校赛道特等奖)

Employment (Internship)

  • 2024/07/01 - persent at Xingyin Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., LTD (行吟信息科技(上海)有限公司), aka Red Note (小红书): Backend Engineering Intern, Shanghai, China.
  • 2022/07/08 - 2022/09/30 at Microsoft (Software Technology Center Asia, STCA): Software Engineering Intern, Suzhou, China.

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, Go.
  • DevOps: Linux operations and Shell programming, Microservices, Virtualization Technologies (Docker, K8s), etc.
  • Techniques to LLM: Context Engineering, Fine-tuning, Alignment, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Agents, etc.