Sam Cheng

Welcome!

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisors are Professor Tianyin Xu and Professor Darko Marinov.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis in 2019.

Email: rcheng12@illinois.edu

Links: Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Twitter

Publications

• Testing Configuration Changes in Context to Prevent Production Failures
  Xudong Sun*, Runxiang Cheng*, Jianyan Chen, Ran Ang, Owolabi Legunsen, and Tianyin Xu (*co-primary)
  14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2020).
• A Visual Attention Grounding Neural Model for Multimodal Machine Translation
  Mingyang Zhou, Runxiang Cheng, Yong Jae Lee, and Zhou Yu
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).
  [pdf]
• Gunrock: Building A Human-Like Social Bot By Leveraging Large Scale Real User Data
  Chun-Yen Chen, Dian Yu, Weiming Wen, Yi Mang Yang, Jiaping Zhang, Mingyang Zhou, Kevin Jesse, Austin Chau, Antara Bhowmick, Shreenath Iyer, Giritheja Sreenivasulu, Runxiang Cheng, Ashwin Bhandare, and Zhou Yu
  Alexa Prize Proceedings 2018.
  [pdf][press]