🎉 Welcome to Zeru Cheng’s Academic Website! 🎉

Hello! I’m a 3rd year Software Engineering undergrad at Nanjing University. I’m also a member of the DevOps+ Research Laboratory, with privilege of working closely with Jinwei Xu, Yanjing Yang and under the guidance of research assistant Lanxin Yang. My research interests lie in Software Security Assurance, Large language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV).

📖 Education

Nanjing University

2023.09 - 2027.07 (Expected)

B.E. in Software Engineering

GPA: 92.0/100 (4.60/5.00)

🔥 News

2025.06: 🎉🎉 Our Paper One Size Does Not Fit All: Investigating Efficacy of Perplexity in Detecting LLM-Generated Code is accepted by TOSEM.
2024.12: 🎉🎉 Our Paper One Size Does Not Fit All: Investigating Efficacy of Perplexity in Detecting LLM-Generated Code is released.

📝 Publications

TOSEM

One Size Does Not Fit All: Investigating Efficacy of Perplexity in Detecting LLM-Generated Code

Jinwei Xu, He Zhang, Yanjing Yang, Lanxin Yang, Zeru Cheng, Jun Lyu, Bohan Liu, Xin Zhou, Alberto Bacchelli, Yin Kia Chiam, Thiam Kian Chiew

Paper Code

📚 Projects

Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

This is my entry for Nanjing University EL Programming Design Competition. It integrates AI technology into traditional cultural works, exploring novel ways of disseminating traditional culture. Due to the fact that it is still in the review stage, the code cannot be made public at present.

Unity OpenAI API

"Ma Lan on Cloud" Education Platform

This is our entry for the Challenge Cup competition. This platform integrates sections such as travel maps, 3D digital exhibition halls, platform courses, question-and-answer systems, and audio-visual resources. It will provide users with a one-stop channel for learning digital ideological and political knowledge. Due to the fact that it is still in the review stage, the code cannot be made public at present.

Vue.js RESTful API Echarts Flask

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"Tomato" Bookstore Website

An online bookstore platform with user-friendly interface and comprehensive book management system.

Vue.js RESTful API Spring Boot MySQL

GitHub

FxNexus

The entry for the Citibank Cup, a set of foreign exchange data dashboards, was created using the TradingView library to customize some data display components.

Vue.js TradingView JavaScript HTML/CSS Data Visualization

API Shield

A detection system for API abnormal traffic, including a complete set of tools for the entire process of traffic scanning, identification and analysis. Due to the fact that it is still in the review stage, the code cannot be made public at present.

Vue.js Python API Security Machine Learning Data Analysis

🏅 Honors and Awards

Nantional Scholarship, 2024
Top 0.2% nationwide, the highest honor for undergraduates in China, ¥10,000
NJU | 2024
BYD Scholarship, 2024
The social scholarship donated by BYD Company, ¥10,000
NJU | 2025
Meritorious Winner
2025 The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
America | 2025
First Prize
2024 Nanjing University EL Programming Design Competition
Nanjing, China | 2024
Second Prize
2025 National University Biotechnology Internet of Things Design Regional Competition
Hangzhou, China | 2025
Third Prize
2024 National Student Software Innovation Regional Competition
Nanjing, China | 2024
Outstanding Student Leader，2023，2024