Shilin He （何世林）

About

Shilin He is now working as an Applied Scientist in Bytedance Douyin on AI4SE and AI Coding directions. Prior to that, He was a Senior Researcher in the DKI group @ Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) during 2020-2025. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) under the supervision of Prof. Michael R. Lyu in 2020.

Shilin's research interests include AI4SE, LLM, Agent, and etc. He has published over 40 papers on top-tier conference and journal papers such as ICLR/ACL and ICSE/FSE, with a total citation of 4000+. He is the program committee member of top-tier conferences like FSE and ISSTA, and reviewer of conferences and journals such as ACL/EMNLP, and FSE/TSE/TOSEM.

2025-06: Our team has FTE and Intern Openings (for master and Ph.D. Students) on AI4SE and AI coding directions, feel free to contact me if you are interested.

News

• 2025-06: We release a new benchmark for issue-resolving task, SWE-bench-Live.
• 2025-06: Our paper "Large language Model-Brained GUI Agents: A Survey" is accepted by Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
• 2025-05: Our paper "DI-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Dependency Inference with Testable Repositories at Scale" is accepted by ACL 2025.
• 2025-02: Our paper "OpenRCA: Can Large Language Models Locate the Root Cause of Software Failures?" has been accepted to ICLR 2025.

Selected Projects

• SWE-bench-Live: A live benchmark for issue resolving that goes beyond SWE-bench.
• UFO: A desktop agent OS based on Windows, open-sourced on GitHub with 7400 stars.
• TaskWeaver: A multi-agent framework designed for reliable planning and code execution, open-sourced on GitHub with 5800 stars.

Publication

Experience

• 2025 - Present:   Applied Scientist @ Bytedance
• 2020 - 2025:   Senior Researcher @ MSRA, DKI Group
• 2018 - 2019:   Research Intern @ Tencent AI Lab, NLP Group
• 2017 - 2017:   Research Intern @ MSRA, Software Analytics Group

Education

• 2016 - 2020:   Ph.D., the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• 2012 - 2016:   Bachelor, South China University of Technology

Services

• Program Committee Member:  FSE 2025, ISSTA 2025, APSEC 2024, ISSTA 2024, ESEC/FSE 2024
• Invited Speaker:  ISEC 2024
• Reviewer:   ICLR, ICML, EMNLP, ACL, EMSE, TOSEM, CSUR, VLDB, TSE, DSN, etc