Chenxi Zhang

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University

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Email: zhangchenxi@xidian.edu.cn

Chenxi Zhang is an Associate Professor at Xidian University, China. I received my Ph.D degree in Software Engineering from Fudan University, under the supervision of Prof. Xin Peng. Previously, I was a software engineer at Huawei.

My research is focused on Software Engineering, particularly in the areas of AIOps, Cloud-Native systems, and Software testing. I have published over ten papers in the top conferences in the field of software engineering, including ICSE, FSE, and ASE.

Research Interests:

  • AIOps: anomaly detection, root cause analysis, LLM4Ops, AgentOps
  • Cloud-Native Systems: architecture measurement, architecture anti-patterns
  • Testing: Restful API testing

news

Feb 05, 2026 Our paper about text-to-PromQL is accepted by TOSEM. :sparkles:
Jan 14, 2026 Our paper about LLM-powered trace analysis is accepted by WWW 2026.
Oct 22, 2025 Our paper about root cause analysis in microservice systems is accepted by ASE 2025.

selected publications

  1. WWW 2026
    TraceLLM: Evaluating and Exploring Large Language Models on Trace Analysis in Microservice-based Web Applications
    Tong Zhou, Xin Peng, Jie Zhang, and 4 more authors
    In The 2026 ACM Web Conference, WWW 2026, 2026
  2. arXiv
    PromAssistant: Leveraging Large Language Models for Text-to-PromQL
    Chenxi Zhang, Bicheng Zhang, Dingyu Yang, and 6 more authors
    CoRR, 2025
  3. ICSE 2024
    Trace-based Multi-Dimensional Root Cause Localization of Performance Issues in Microservice Systems
    Chenxi Zhang, Zhen Dong, Xin Peng, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-20, 2024, 2024
  4. ASE 2023
    Dynamic Graph Neural Networks-Based Alert Link Prediction for Online Service Systems
    Yiru Chen, Chenxi Zhang, Zhen Dong, and 7 more authors
    In 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023, 2023
  5. ICSE 2022
    DeepTraLog: Trace-Log Combined Microservice Anomaly Detection through Graph-based Deep Learning
    Chenxi Zhang, Xin Peng, Chaofeng Sha, and 5 more authors
    In 44th IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 25-27, 2022, 2022
  6. FSE 2022
    TraceCRL: contrastive representation learning for microservice trace analysis
    Chenxi Zhang, Xin Peng, Tong Zhou, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2022, Singapore, Singapore, November 14-18, 2022, 2022
  7. FSE 2022
    Trace analysis based microservice architecture measurement
    Xin Peng, Chenxi Zhang, Zhongyuan Zhao, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2022, Singapore, Singapore, November 14-18, 2022, 2022