Chenye Ni

Ph.D. Student

Education

University of Auckland

Ph.D. in Computer Science, advised by Elliott Wen and Valerio Terragni.

Jul 2026 — now
Auckland, New Zealand
University of Auckland

Master of Science in Computer Science, First Class Honours.

Nov 2024 — Feb 2026
Auckland, New Zealand

Experience

Robotics Lab, University of Auckland

Research Assistant.

Jul 2026 — now
Auckland, New Zealand

Teaching

COMPSCI 331 — Large-Scale Software Development

Teaching Assistant, University of Auckland.

Mar — Jun 2026
COMPSCI 702 — Security for Smart-Devices

Teaching Assistant, University of Auckland.

Mar — Jun 2026

Awards

Tūwhana Doctoral Scholarship

Full funding for the Ph.D. at the University of Auckland.

2026
First in Course — COMPSCI 702

University of Auckland.

2026

Publications

A labelled corpus of Rust binary pairs for learning when build differences are benign.

AIware, 2026

Teaching low-level programming through games rather than exercises.

arXiv, 2026