Jiarong Liang (梁家榕)

Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo

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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.

✨ I am actively looking for PhD opportunities for 2026/2027, research collaborations, and internships in LLM/VLM-related areas. If you have interesting ideas or are interested in my research, feel free to reach out anytime.

news

Apr 07, 2026 Released SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Software Engineering Tasks for Agents. Check out our paper, project page, and dataset!
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

  1. arXiv
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    SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Software Engineering Tasks for Agents
    Jiarong Liang*, Zhiheng Lyu*, Zijie Liu, Xiangchao Chen, and 3 more authors
    2026
    arXiv Website GitHub Repo stars Huggingface X (formerly Twitter) URL LinkedIn post
  2. arXiv
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    VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction
    Jiarong Liang*, Max Ku*, Ka-Hei Hui, Ping Nie, and 1 more author
    2026
    arXiv Website GitHub Repo stars Huggingface X (formerly Twitter) URL LinkedIn post
  3. ICLR 2026
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    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
    arXiv Website GitHub Repo stars Huggingface