The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Lingming Zhang

Lingming Zhang
Lingming Zhang
Associate Professor
(217) 244-8921
2104 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Research Statement

Zhang's main research interests are in Software Engineering, and its synergy with Machine Learning, Programming Languages, and Formal Methods.

Research Interests

  • AI for Systems and Security
  • Code LLMs and Agents
  • Software Engineering

Research Areas

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 427 (CSE 426) - Software Engineering I
  • CS 527 - Topics in Software Engineering
  • CS 591 SE - Advanced Seminar
  • CS 591 SE - SOFTWARE ENGINEER. SEM.
  • CS 591 SE - Software Engineering Seminar
  • CS 598 AST - Adv Software Testing and Debug
  • CS 598 LMZ - ADV Software Test. & Debugging
  • CS 598 LMZ - Software Engr with LLM Agents
  • CS 598 LMZ - Software QA w Generative AI

News Notes

  • 10/23/2026

    Siebel School is bringing significant NLP and AI expertise to the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Over 30 graduate students and 30 faculty are a part of the accepted 30 main conference papers, 25-plus COLM 2026 papers, and 20-plus findings papers. EMNLP is an international academic conference on natural language processing and AI, hosted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) SIGDAT, a special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing.