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Tianyi Zhang

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2012Rising activity
Topic ModelingSoftware Engineering ResearchNatural Language Processing TechniquesAdversarial Robustness in Machine LearningSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques

Publications

131

Citations

6,988

Est. group size

~6

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
AI-generated

Tianyi Zhang's work centers on software engineering and natural language processing, particularly using large language models (LLMs) to generate and validate code, infrastructure configurations, and multi-agent reasoning systems. The publication record shows this researcher's name is also associated with a wide range of unrelated topics (medicine, biomechanics, finance, batteries, geology), which likely reflects multiple distinct individuals sharing the same name rather than a single unified research program. Prospective students should focus on the software engineering and LLM-related papers as most representative of this computer science PI's core work.

LLM-based code generationSoftware engineering automationMulti-agent systems and reasoningDevOps and infrastructure-as-codeNatural language processing

Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from single digits per year before 2021 to over 20-30 per year in 2023-2025, though this apparent growth may partly reflect conflation of multiple same-named authors.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 20.6/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 8 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 13 publications222023: 27 publications232024: 27 publications242025: 34 publications34252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×41
  • Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.×4
  • Critical Care Medicine×3
  • Lecture notes in computer science×2
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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