Rongchen Gao

I am a Ph.D. student at Nankai University, advised by Prof. Yongqian Sun in the AIOps@NKU Lab.

My research focuses on AI agents and their applications in software systems. I am particularly interested in reasoning, memory, and tool use for complex, long-horizon tasks. My current work centers on AIOps and AI4SE.

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News

• I started my Ph.D. in Software Engineering at Nankai University.Sep 2026
• Our paper OpsMem was accepted to the ISSRE 2026 Industry Track.Aug 2026
• I started a research internship at Huawei.Jul 2026
• Our paper Graph of States was accepted to ICML 2026.May 2026

Publications

1. Rethinking Tool Design for Agentic RCA: A Controlled Empirical Study

   arXiv 2026

   Yu Luo, Rongchen Gao, Zhenhui Zhou, Changchang Liu, Yuliang You, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Qiuai Fu, Shijie Wang, Dan Pei

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2. Beyond Memory: Harnessing Long-Horizon Agents with Explicit Belief States

   arXiv 2026

   Yu Luo, Jiamin Jiang, Yimin Zuo, Xidao Wen, Rongchen Gao, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Guiyang Liu, Cheng Zhang, Fang Situ, Qi Zhou, Dan Pei

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3. OpsMem: Dual-Memory Reasoning with Cross-Memory Resonance for Failure Diagnosis

   ISSRE 2026

   Yongqian Sun, Rongchen Gao, Yu Luo, Wenwei Gu, Shenglin Zhang, Qingyi Guo, Qiuai Fu, Yaoliang Wu, Dan Pei

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4. Graph of States: Solving Abductive Tasks with Large Language Models

   ICML 2026

   Yu Luo, Rongchen Gao, Lu Teng, Xidao Wen, Jiamin Jiang, Qingliang Zhang, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Jiasong Feng, Tong Liu, Wenjie Zhang, Dan Pei

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Education

• Nankai UniversityPh.D. in Software Engineering2026 – Present
• Nankai UniversityB.Eng. in Software Engineering2022 – 2026

Experience

• HuaweiResearch Intern, Tool Technology Innovation LabJul 2026 – Present
• Nankai UniversityTeaching Assistant, Software Testing and MaintenanceMar 2026 – Jun 2026