Chenxi Zhang

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

Oct 22, 2025	Our paper about root cause analysis in microservice systems is accepted by ASE 2025.

selected publications

arXiv

PromAssistant: Leveraging Large Language Models for Text-to-PromQL

Chenxi Zhang, Bicheng Zhang, Dingyu Yang, and 6 more authors

CoRR, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2503-03114,
  author = {Zhang, Chenxi and Zhang, Bicheng and Yang, Dingyu and Peng, Xin and Chen, Miao and Xie, Senyu and Chen, Gang and Bi, Wei and Li, Wei},
  title = {PromAssistant: Leveraging Large Language Models for Text-to-PromQL},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/2503.03114},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.03114},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2503.03114},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2503.03114}
}

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

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icse/ZhangD0ZC24,
  author = {Zhang, Chenxi and Dong, Zhen and Peng, Xin and Zhang, Bicheng and Chen, Miao},
  title = {Trace-based Multi-Dimensional Root Cause Localization of Performance
                    Issues in Microservice Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th {IEEE/ACM} International Conference on Software
                    Engineering, {ICSE} 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-20, 2024},
  pages = {110:1--110:12},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639088},
  doi = {10.1145/3597503.3639088}
}

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

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/kbse/ChenZDYPOYWQL23,
  author = {Chen, Yiru and Zhang, Chenxi and Dong, Zhen and Yang, Dingyu and Peng, Xin and Ou, Jiayu and Yang, Hong and Wu, Zheshun and Qu, Xiaojun and Li, Wei},
  title = {Dynamic Graph Neural Networks-Based Alert Link Prediction for Online
                    Service Systems},
  booktitle = {38th {IEEE/ACM} International Conference on Automated Software Engineering,
                    {ASE} 2023, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023},
  pages = {79--90},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00177},
  doi = {10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00177}
}

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

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icse/Zhang0SZFWL022,
  author = {Zhang, Chenxi and Peng, Xin and Sha, Chaofeng and Zhang, Ke and Fu, Zhenqing and Wu, Xiya and Lin, Qingwei and Zhang, Dongmei},
  title = {DeepTraLog: Trace-Log Combined Microservice Anomaly Detection through
                    Graph-based Deep Learning},
  booktitle = {44th {IEEE/ACM} 44th International Conference on Software Engineering,
                    {ICSE} 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 25-27, 2022},
  pages = {623--634},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510180},
  doi = {10.1145/3510003.3510180}
}

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

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigsoft/Zhang0ZSYCY22,
  author = {Zhang, Chenxi and Peng, Xin and Zhou, Tong and Sha, Chaofeng and Yan, Zhenghui and Chen, Yiru and Yang, Hong},
  title = {TraceCRL: contrastive representation learning for microservice trace
                    analysis},
  booktitle = {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},
  pages = {1221--1232},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3549146},
  doi = {10.1145/3540250.3549146}
}

FSE 2022

Trace analysis based microservice architecture measurement

Xin Peng, Chenxi Zhang, Zhongyuan Zhao, and 3 more authors

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigsoft/0001ZZIGC22,
  author = {Peng, Xin and Zhang, Chenxi and Zhao, Zhongyuan and Isami, Akasaka and Guo, Xiaofeng and Cui, Yunna},
  title = {Trace analysis based microservice architecture measurement},
  booktitle = {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},
  pages = {1589--1599},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3558951},
  doi = {10.1145/3540250.3558951}
}