Jiarong Liang

Hi, I’m Jiarong Liang. I’m currently a Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo, advised by Wenhu Chen, working on natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs).

I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at South China University of Technology and my M.S. at Washington University in St. Louis.

news

Feb 08, 2026	Released VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction. Check out our paper and huggingface collection!
Oct 01, 2025	Released VisCoder2: building multi-language visualization coding agents. Check out our paper and huggingface collection!

selected publications

SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Tasks for Software Engineering Agents

Jiarong Liang^*, Zhiheng Lyu^*, Xiangchao Chen, Zijie Liu, and 3 more authors

2026

VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction

Jiarong Liang, Max Ku, Ka-Hei Hui, Ping Nie, and 1 more author

2026

@misc{liang2026visphyworldprobingphysicalreasoning,
  title = {{VisPhyWorld}: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction},
  author = {Liang, Jiarong and Ku, Max and Hui, Ka-Hei and Nie, Ping and Chen, Wenhu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.13294},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13294},
  huggingface = {https://huggingface.co/collections/TIGER-Lab/visphyworld},
}

VisCoder2: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents

Yuansheng Ni^*, Songcheng Cai^*, Xiangchao Chen^*, Jiarong Liang, and 7 more authors

In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

@inproceedings{ni2026viscoder2,
  title = {{VisCoder2}: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents},
  author = {Ni, Yuansheng and Cai, Songcheng and Chen, Xiangchao and Liang, Jiarong and Lyu, Zhiheng and Deng, Jiaqi and Zou, Kai and Nie, Ping and Yuan, Fei and Yue, Xiang and Chen, Wenhu},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  huggingface = {https://hf.co/collections/TIGER-Lab/viscoder2},
}