Pengrui Lu

Undergraduate @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ACM Honors Class

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lupengrui@sjtu.edu.cn

Shanghai, China

I am a senior undergraduate student in Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where I am a member of the ACM Honors Class — an elite program for the top 5% of students with a spirit of innovation and challenge.

I am currently a research intern at SII and GAIR Lab, advised by Prof. Pengfei Liu. I was a research intern at UC Merced, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, from August to December 2025.

My research interests focus on LLM/AI evaluation and benchmarking, including building robust evaluation frameworks for large language models, multimodal systems, and AI coding agents.

news

Feb 08, 2026 New preprint: ProjDevBench: Benchmarking AI Coding Agents on End-to-End Project Development is now available on arXiv!
Feb 08, 2026 Our paper ProjDevBench was featured on 量子位 (QbitAI), a leading Chinese tech media outlet!
Jul 21, 2025 New preprint: ResearcherBench: Evaluating Deep AI Research Systems on the Frontiers of Scientific Inquiry is now available on arXiv!

selected publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

  1. arXiv
    ProjDevBench: Benchmarking AI Coding Agents on End-to-End Project Development
    Pengrui Lu*, Shiqi Zhang*, Yunzhong Hou*, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01655, 2026
  2. arXiv
    ResearcherBench: Evaluating Deep AI Research Systems on the Frontiers of Scientific Inquiry
    Tianze Xu*, Pengrui Lu*, Lyumanshan Ye, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16280, 2025
  3. arXiv
    DeepResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world Environments
    Yuxiang Zheng, Dayuan Fu, Xiangkun Hu, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.03160, 2025