CV | Mingzhe Du

Full Name	Mingzhe Du
Email	dumingzhex@gmail.com
Address	Innovation 4.0, 3 Research Link, Singapore, 117602
Languages	Mandarin (native), English (professional)

2022 - Present
PhD Candidate in Computer Science

Nanyang Technological University, College of Computing and Data Science, Singapore
- Advisor: Prof. Anh Tuan Luu
2017 - 2019
Master of Information Technology

The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Advisor: Prof. Richard O. Sinnott
- Specialization: Distributed Computing (Honorable Dissertation)
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Information Security

Central South University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changsha, China
- Excellent Scholarships (GPA 3.7/4.0)

2021 - Present
Research Associate

National University of Singapore, Institute of Data Science
- Advisor: Prof. See-Kiong Ng
- Affiliated with Cisco-NUS Accelerated Digital Economy Corporate Laboratory.
2019 - 2021
Software Architect (Full Time)

ByteDance, Tiktok Search
- Architected a scalable, general-purpose search engine (Search Eternal) that now powers core search services for major ByteDance platforms, including Douyin, TikTok and TouTiao.
2018 - 2019
Research Intern

Microsoft, Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group
- Mentor: Wei Liu
- Designed and implemented a Transformer-based model for text-to-image synthesis, generating visually coherent images from textual descriptions.
2016
Software Engineer Intern

Alibaba, Ant Finance Core Clearing Team
- Developed components for a core system in Alipay's payment clearing flow, enabling the aggregation of millions of orders at minute-level latency for data exchange with banking partners.
2016
Software Engineer Intern

Tencent, Social Network Group
- Built and deployed a URL analysis platform to process and detect suspicious content in high-volume public message traffic, significantly improving the filtering of malicious information to enhance content security.

[NeurIPS'25] Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization.
[ACL'25] CodeArena: A collective evaluation platform for LLM code generation.
[NeurIPS'24] Mercury: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Large Language Models.
[ICLR'26] Beyond Prompt-Induced Lies: Investigating LLM Deception on Benign Prompts. (Oral)
[ICML'25] Position: Current Model Licensing Practices are Dragging Us into a Quagmire of Legal Noncompliance. (Oral)
[AAAI'25] Towards Verifiable Text Generation with Generative Agent. (Oral)
[ACL'25] AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge. (Oral and SAC Highlight Award)
[ICSE'25] Measuring the Influence of Incorrect Code on Test Generation.
[NeurIPS'25] EffiBench-X: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Measuring Efficiency of LLM-Generated Code.
[AAAI'24] From Static to Dynamic: Knowledge Metabolism for Large Language Models.

Conference Reviewer
- NeurIPS (24,25), ICLR (24,25,26), ICML (25,26), AISTATS (24,26), AAAI'26, AISI'26, CIKM'25, ECAI'25, NAACL'24, EMNLP'24, ECAI'24, CLEF'23
Journal Reviewer
- ACM Computing Survey, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Volunteer
- NeurIPS'25, ACL'25, WWW'24, EMNLP'24, AAAI'23
STEM Mentor
- The University of Melbourne (2019-Present)

2025
- Staff Research Award at Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore.
2022
- First Runner-Up Award at the Singapore Healthcare AI Datathon: Identifying ICU Patient with Central Lines at Risk of CLABSI.
2019
- First Prize at Catalyst 2019: A Path Recommendation System based on Data Aggregation and Analysis.
- First Prize at Codebrew 2019: After Dark (Finding Safe and Fast Routes for Pedestrians at Night).
2015
- Second Prize at the 8th National Information Security Competition: An Efficient Express Label System Based on Hierarchical Encryption.
- Technology Pioneer Award at the Cyberspace Security Talent Development and Entrepreneurship Forum.
- First Prize at the National Internet of Things Competition.
2014
- First Prize at the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM): Study on the Wreckage Position of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.