Zhenyu Qi

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States

Email: qzydustin@arizona.edu
Profiles: LinkedIn · DBLP · Google Scholar
OpenReview · Semantic Scholar · ORCID

Research Interests

• Large Language Models for Code Generation and Software Engineering
• Program Analysis, Testing, and Software Security
• Reinforcement Learning for Coding and Decision-Making Systems

Education

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, advised by Dr. Sen He
  Jan 2024 - Present

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  M.S. in Computer Science
  Aug 2021 - Dec 2023

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
  B.S. in Computer Science
  Jan 2019 - May 2021

Academic Appointments

• Research Assistant, University of Arizona
  Supervised by Dr. Sen He
  Jan 2024 - Present

• Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona
  CSc 460: Database Design
  Sep 2023

Ongoing Research

• Enhanced Code Generation via a Performance-Guided LLM Ensemble
  Developing a performance-guided ensemble of large language models to improve code generation accuracy, efficiency, and overall performance.

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of RL-based LLM Distillation on Coding Tasks
  Investigating the impact of reinforcement learning-based distillation on LLMs for coding tasks.

Publications

Published

• Zhenyu Qi, Haotang Li, Hao Qin, Kebin Peng, Sen He, Xue Qin.
  Harnessing Large Language Models for Virtual Reality Exploration Testing: A Case Study.
  Automated Software Engineering, 33(1), Article 7, 2026.

• Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Tan Ahmed, Shuyuan Zhang, Sen He, Zhengkun Wang, Guoqiang Li.
  Ultra-Wideband Radar-Based Sensing Poultry Litter Moisture Content Monitoring System.
  Animals, 16(9), 1382, 2026.

• Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Sen He, Kebin Peng, Sheng Tan, Yunchao Ren, Tomas Cerny, Jiawei Zhao, Zhengkun Wang.
  UWB-PostureGuard: A Privacy-Preserving RF Sensing System for Continuous Ergonomic Sitting Posture Monitoring.
  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2026), 2026.

• Xin Du, Shan Zhong, Shengrong Gong, Yali Si, Zhenyu Qi.
  Enhancing Model Learning in Reinforcement Learning Through Q-Function-Guided Trajectory Alignment.
  Applied Intelligence, 2025.

• Wenjie Huang, Jinfu Chen, Huashan Chen, Zhenyu Qi, Xiaojia Yang, Kebin Peng, Sen He.
  A Study of Code Clone on Open Source VR Software.
  Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024.

• Yuantian Zhang, Weixia Cai, Huashan Chen, Zhenyu Qi, Hong Chen, Feng Liu, Sen He.
  A Learning-Based POMDP Approach for Adaptive Cyber Defense Against Multi-Stage Attacks.
  The 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2024.

Preprints

• Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Sheng-Hao Wang, Kebin Peng, Zhengkun Wang, Qing Guo, Sen He, Huanrui Yang.
  PaceVGGT: Pre-Alternating-Attention Token Pruning for Visual Geometry Transformers.
  arXiv:2605.08371, 2026.

• Haotang Li, Yunchao Ren, Zhenyu Qi, Sen He, Kebin Peng, Sheng Tan, Baichen Liu, Jiawei Zhao, Zhengkun Wang.
  UWB-Fat: Non-Intrusive Body Fat Measurement Using Commodity Ultra-Wideband Radar.
  arXiv:2605.08403, 2026.

• Zhenyu Qi, Qian Zhang, Haotang Li, Sen He, Jianjun Wang.
  Isolating Recurring Execution-Dependent Abnormal Patterns on NISQ Quantum Devices.
  arXiv:2604.17519, 2026.

• Kebin Peng, Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Huashan Chen, Zi Wang, Wei Zhang, Sen He, Huanrui Yang, Qing Guo.
  PhysDepth: Plug-and-Play Physical Refinement for Monocular Depth Estimation in Challenging Environments.
  arXiv:2412.04666, 2026.

• Huashan Chen*, Zhenyu Qi*, Haotang Li, Hong Chen, Jinfu Chen, Kebin Peng, In Kee Kim, Kyu Hyung Lee, Sen He, et al.
  Multi-LLM Orchestration for High-Quality Code Generation: Exploiting Complementary Model Strengths.
  arXiv:2510.01379, 2025.

• Yifan Xu, Jinfu Chen, Zhenyu Qi, Huashan Chen, Junyi Wang, Pengfei Hu, Feng Liu, Sen He.
  An Empirical Study on Virtual Reality Software Security Weaknesses.
  arXiv:2507.17324, 2025.

• Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Hao Qin, Huanrui Yang, Kebin Peng, Qing Guo, Sen He.
  MSSSeg: Learning Multi-Scale Structural Complexity for Self-Supervised Segmentation.
  arXiv:2512.23997, 2025.

• Md Hassan, Suman Ghimire, Md Mamun, Haotang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Tomas Cerny.
  A Systematic Literature Review: Advancing Microservice Deployment Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
  SSRN 6170085, 2025.

Presentations

• A Study of Code Clone on Open Source VR Software
  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024)
  Sacramento, CA.

Honors and Awards

• Research and Project (ReaP) Grant
  Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona
  2026

• Herbold Fellowship
  The Herbold Foundation
  2024

• Academic Distinction
  College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  2021

• Second Prize
  The 9th Lanqiao Cup Jiangsu Provincial Software Competition (C/C++)
  2019