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

Jul 28, 2026	Our paper about code change understanding enhanced root cause analysis for microservice systems is accepted by ASE 2026.
Jun 30, 2026	Our paper about automated microservice decomposition is accepted by ASE 2026.
Feb 05, 2026	Our paper about text-to-PromQL is accepted by TOSEM.

selected publications

ASE 2026

Enhancing Trace-Based Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems via Code Change Understanding

Min Zhang, Chenxi Zhang, Senyu Xie, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE ’26), October 12–16, 2026, Munich, Germany, 2026

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TOSEM

PromCopilot: Simplifying Prometheus Metric Querying in Cloud Native Online Service Systems via Large Language Models

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

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., Feb 2026

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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 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, Feb 2026

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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, Feb 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, Feb 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, Feb 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, Feb 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}
}