About Me

Pinjia He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science and the School of Artificial Intelligence at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is the Assistant Dean (Research) at the School of Data Science.

His research spans software engineering, natural language processing, and systems. He is interested in the following topics:

• AI for Software Engineering: LLM for DevOps, LLM for code.
• Software Engineering for AI: LLM safety/security, the development/testing/operation of AI systems.

He is mainly known for his research on robust NLP systems and software log analysis. His work has been published at the top venues, such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, and OSDI; and has been cited more than 8,000 times according to Google Scholar. He won the IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award in 2025. His work has been starred 7,000+ times on GitHub, downloaded 100,000+ times by 450+ organizations and well recognized by the industry.

Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, mentored by Prof. Zhendong Su. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu. He received a B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from South China University of Technology.