Wenchao Gu

Dr. Wenchao GU is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Software Engineering & AI at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working under the supervision of Prof. Chunyang Chen. His academic journey includes a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (2024), an MSc in Information Science from Tohoku University (2017), and a B.Eng in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University (2015).

Research Interests: Dr. GU's work focuses on Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE), leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to advance source code understanding, analysis, and generation. Key areas include code optimization, vulnerability detection, and UI code generation. His research bridges theoretical innovations with practical tools for automated code efficiency improvement, semantic code retrieval, and natural language generation in software development workflows.

Publication Trends: His recent work emphasizes iterative LLM refinement via evolutionary search (2025), segmented deep hashing for scalable code retrieval (2025), and contrastive learning in code search (2023). Earlier studies explored AST-guided transformers for code summarization (2022) and semantic dependency learning in code retrieval (2021).

• Scientific Awards:
  • Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2025
  • The Aoba Foundation Scholarship (2015)
  • JASSO Scholarship (2012)
  • Tohoku University President Fellowship (2012)

Mentorship: Dr. GU supervises 11 current students (including 1 PhD) and has advised 5 graduated Master's students. He actively seeks candidates with web/Android development expertise for UI code generation projects.