@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-llms, title = "{LLM}s as Lab Engineers: A Benchmark for Analytical Method Lifecycle Management", author = "Chen, Xiaoyi and Monshizadeh, Mahsa and Zhang, Chaoqi and Lang, Jianjun and Wu, Yang and Mortensen, Genevieve and Liu, Xiaozhong and Tang, Haixu", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.2015/", pages = "40533--40553", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }