Cheng Ding

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Hi, it’s Cheng Ding.

I’m a second-year PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), advised by Prof. Milos Gligoric.

I got my Bachelor degree at the University of Science of Technology of China (USTC). I was previously a research intern at UIUC working with Prof. Tianyin Xu and Prof. Owolabi Legunsen on Runtime Verification.

My research interests are in software testing, programming languages and databases.

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Mar 6, 2026 Our paper ‘Understanding and Finding JIT Compiler Performance Bugs’ is accepted at OOPSLA 2026!
Feb 23, 2026 I will join Databricks as a Software Engineer Intern in Summer 2026!
Dec 24, 2025 I will serve as an Artifact Evaluation Committee member for the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2026.
Dec 3, 2025 Our paper ‘TypeJinja: Static Type Checking of Jinja Templates at dbt Labs’ is accepted at ICSE SEIP 2026!
Nov 14, 2025 I will serve as an Artifact Evaluation Committee member on International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2026.