Xin Tan（谭鑫）

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science & Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), China

Email: xintan[AT]buaa[DOT]edu[DOT]cn

I am an assistant professor in School of Computer Science & Engineering, BUAA. I received my Ph.D. degree in July 2021 from Peking University. During my Ph.D. studies, I am honored and fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Minghui ZHOU. My research interests mainly focus on software repository mining, empirical software engineering, and open source ecosystems.

Education

  • 09/2016~present, Peking University, PhD student in computer science under the supervision of Prof. Minghui Zhou

  • 09/2012~07/2016, Northwestern Plytechnical University (NWPU), Bachelor diploma of software engineering


Publication

  1. [ICSE'22] An Exploratory Study of Deep Learning Supply Chain. [CCF A]

Xin Tan, Kai Gao, Minghui Zhou, Li Zhang

  1. [ICSE'22] Recommending Good First Issues in GitHub OSS Projects. [CCF A]

Wenxin Xiao, Hao He, Weiwei Xu, Xin Tan, Jinhao Dong, Minghui Zhou

  1. [TOSEM'22] Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale. [CCF A]

Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin, Jiaxin Zhu

  1. [ESEC/FSE'20] A First Look at Good First Issues on GitHub. [CCF A]

Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zeyu Sun.

In: The 2020 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Nov. 8–13, 2020, California, United States.

  1. [ICSE'20] Scaling Open Source Communities: An Empirical Study of the Linux Kernel. [CCF A]

Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Brian Fitzgerald.

In: The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, May 23–29, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

  1. [IEEE Software'20] Scaling Open Source Software Communities: Challenges and Practices of Decentralization.

Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou.

  1. [EMSE'20] Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help. [CCF B]

Paul Ralph and Sebastian Baltes and Gianisa Adisaputri and Richard Torkar and Vladimir Kovalenko and Marcos Kalinowski and Nicole Novielli and Shin Yoo and Xavier Devroey and Xin Tan and Minghui Zhou and Burak Turhan and Rashina Hoda and Hideaki Hata and Gregorio Robles and Amin Milani Fard and Rana Alkadhi

Accepted by the journal Empiricial Software Engineering in May, 2020.

  1. [CSCW'19] How to Communicate when Submitting Patches: an Empirical Study of the Linux Kernel. [CCF A]

Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou.

In: The 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, November 9th-13th 2019, Austin, Texas.

  1. [ESEC/FSE ’19-Poster] Reducing the Workload of the Linux Kernel Maintainers: Multiple-Committer Model. [CCF A]

Xin Tan.

In: The 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, August 26–30, 2019, Tallinn, Estonia.

  1. [Science China'19] Software digital sociology [CCF A]

Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan

In: SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2019 (Chinese).

  1. [ICSE-Poster'18] Companies' domination in FLOSS development: an empirical study of OpenStack. [CCF A]

Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin

In: The 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 27-June 03, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

  1. [Journal of Software'18] Analysis of Contribution Composition Patterns of Code Files. [CCF A]

Xin Tan, Zeyan Lin, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou.

In: Journal of Software, 2018 (Chinese).

  1. [Internetware'17] Understanding the Variation of Software Development Tasks: a Qualitative Study

Xin Tan, Hanmin Qin, Minghui Zhou.

In: The 9th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, September 23-23, Shanghai, China.

  1. [Computer Science'15] Automated Test Case Generation Based on SPEA2+SDE

Xin Tan, Yaopeng Peng, Shuai Yang, Wei Zheng.

In: Computer Science, 2015 (Chinese).

  1. [Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University'15] Software Fault Localization Using Semi-Supervised Learning.

Wei Zheng, Xiaoxue Wu, Xin Tan, Yaopeng Peng.

In: Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2015 (Chinese).

Academic Services

  • 2021: session chair of ESEC/FSE'21, reviewer of Journal of Software: Evolution and Process

  • 2019: FSE co-reviewer, ASE co-reviewer, ICSE co-reviewer, ICSME co-reviewer

  • 2018: FSE co-reviewer, ASE co-reviewer, ICSE co-reviewer, ESEM co-reviewer, ICSME co-reviewer, MSR co-reviewer

  • 2017: FSE co-reviewer, ASE co-reviewer, ICSE co-reviewer, MSR co-reviewer

Selected Awards

  • 2020.06 President Scholarship of PKU (Graduate scholarship with the highest honor, the largest amount of funding, and the widest impact)

  • 2018.09 Excellent scientific research award of PKU

  • 2018.09 Founder Scholarship

  • 2017.09 Special scholarship of PKU

  • 2016.07 Outstanding graduates of NWPU


  • 2013-2016 The first scholarship of NWPU

  • 2013-2016 Zeng XianZe scholarship

Hobbies

Yoga, traveling, and hiking.