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

• 02/2026: Released VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction. Check out our paper and huggingface collections!
• 10/2025: Released VisCoder2: building multi-language visualization coding agents. Check out our paper and huggingface collections!

Selected Publications

Jiarong Liang*, Zhiheng Lyu*, Xiangchao Chen, Zijie Liu, Ping Nie, Yuyu Zhang, Wenhu Chen. SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Tasks for Software Engineering Agents [Code]

Jiarong Liang*, Max Ku*, Ka-Hei Hui, Ping Nie, Wenhu Chen. VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction Under review ICML’26 [Code] [HF]

Yuansheng Ni, Songcheng Cai, Xiangchao Chen*, Jiarong Liang, Zhiheng Lyu, Jiaqi Deng, Kai Zou, Ping Nie, Fei Yuan, Xiang Yue, Wenhu Chen. VisCoder2: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents. In ICLR’26 [Paper] [Project Page] [Code] [HF]

Contact

• Email: jiarongliangcs [at] gmail.com