News

1. One coauthored paper has been accepted to ASE 2023.

2. Three coauthored papers have been accepted to ESEC/FSE 2023. 

3. One paper has been accepted to TSE 2023.

4. Our paper working on Corporate Dominance in Open Source Development was accepted to FSE 2022! 

5. I am a recipient of the ACM Distinguished Paper Award in the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022)！

Education & Employment

Assistant professor

2020.10 - Present

Beijing Institute of Technology

Research Internship 

2020.07 - 2020.09

Open Source Lab at HUAWEI

Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory, Advisors: Zhi Jin and Minghui Zhou

2015.09 - 2020.07

Peking University

Publications

1. [ICSE'24] Yuxia Zhang, Mian Qin, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou, and Hui Liu*. How Are Paid and Volunteer Open Source Developers Different? A Study of the Rust Project. In 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024（CCF-A）

2.  [TSE'24] Yuxia Zhang, Zhiqing Qiu, Klaas-Jan Stol, Wenhui Zhu, Jiaxin Zhu, Yingchen Tian, and Hui Liu*. Automatic Commit Message Generation: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Work. In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024（CCF-A)

3. [Saner'24] Qunhong Zeng, Yuxia Zhang*, Zeyu Sun, Yujie Guo, Hui Liu. COLARE: Commit Classification via Fine-grained Context-aware Representation of Code Changes. In The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, 2014（CCF-B）

4. [ASE'23] Bo Liu, Hui Liu*, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Guangjie Li, Yanjie Jiang. Automated Software Entity Matching Between Successive Versions. The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023（CCF-A）

5. [FSE'23] Wenxin Xiao, Hao He, Weiwei Xu, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou*. How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects? The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023（CCF-A）

6. [FSE'23] Xiaye Chi, Hui Liu*, Guangjie Li, Weixiao Wang, Yunni Xia, Yanjie Jiang, Yuxia Zhang, Weixing Ji. An Automated Approach to Extracting Local Variables. The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023（CCF-A） ACM Distinguished Paper Award!

7. [FSE'23] Bo Liu, Hui Liu*, Guangjie Li, Nan Niu, Zimao Xu, Yifan Wang, Yunni Xia, Yuxia Zhang, Yanjie Jiang. Deep Learning Based Feature Envy Detection Boosted by Real-World Examples. The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023（CCF-A）

8. [TSE'23] Runzhi He, Hao He, Yuxia Zhang, and Minghui Zhou*. Automating Dependency Updates in Practice: An Exploratory Study on GitHub Dependabot. in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Online 2023.  (CCF-A)

9. [FSE'22] Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou, Liu Hui*. Corporate Dominance in Open Source Development: Prevalence, Patterns, and Impact. The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022（CCF-A）

10. [FSE'22] Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu*, Yuxia Zhang*, Weixing Ji, Hao Zhong, Lu Zhang. Do Bugs Lead to Unnaturalness of Source Code? The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022 （CCF-A）

11. [TOSEM'22] Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu*, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou*, Zhi Jin, and Jiaxin Zhu. Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale. In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 2022. (CCF-A)

12. [IEEE Computer'22] Yuxia Zhang, Hao He, and Minghui Zhou*. Commercial Participation in OpenStack: Two Sides of a Coin. In Computer 2022, 55(2): 78-84. (SCI )

13. [ICSE'22] Yingchen Tian, Yuxia Zhang*, Klaas-Jan Stol, Lin Jiang, and Hui Liu*.  What Makes a Good Commit Message? In Proceedings of The 44th International Conference on Software Engineering. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2022. 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.11 (CCF-A)  ACM Distinguished Paper Award!

14. [TSE'22] Yanjie Jiang, Liu Hui*, Xiaoqing Luo, Zhihao Zhu, Xiaye Chi, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Yamin Hu, Pan Bian, and Lu Zhang. "BugBuilder: An Automated Approach to Building Bug Repository," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Online 2022.  (CCF-A)

15. [FSE'2021] Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, Yuhai Zhao, Lu Zhang. Which Abbreviations Should Be Expanded? The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.578-589. 2021. （CCF-A） 

16. [Journal of Software'21] Leping Li, Yuxia Zhang*, Hui Liu. A Hybrid Approach to Fine-grained Automated Fault Localization. In: Journal of Software, 2021 (CCF中文-A） 

17. [Journal of Software'21] Yingchen Tian, Kejun Li, Taiming Wang, Qingqing Jiao, Guangjie Li, Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu. A review of code smell research. In: Journal of Software, 2021 (CCF中文-A) 

18. [ICSE'20] Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou, Jianyu Wu, Zhi Jin. 2020. How do Companies Collaborate in Open Source Ecosystems? An Empirical Study of OpenStack. In: The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, 23-29 May 2020, Seoul, South Korea  (CCF-A) 

19. [TSE'19]  Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Audris Mockus, Zhi Jin. Companies' participation in OSS development - An empirical study of OpenStack. In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019（CCF-A）

20.  [EmSE'19] Sadika Amreen, Audris Mockus, Chris Bogart, Russell Zaretzki, Yuxia Zhang. ALFAA: Active Learning Fingerprint Based Anti-Aliasing for Correcting Developer Identity Errors in Version Control Data. In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2019（CCF-B） 

21.  [Science China'19] Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan. Software digital sociology. In: SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2019（CCF中文-A）

22. [Internetware'18] Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin. Which Projects to Develop: Companies' Participation in OpenStack. In: The 10th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, Sept. 16, 2018. Beijing, China.  ACM First Prize of Poster Track! 

23.  [ICSE-Poster'18] Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin. Companies' domination in FLOSS development: an empirical study of OpenStack. In: The 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 27 - June 03, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden 

24. [Journal of Software'18] Xin Tan, Zeyan Lin, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou. Analysis of Contribution Composition Patterns of Code Files. In: Journal of Software, 2018 （CCF中文-A） 

25.  [Journal of Software'18] Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin. How commercial organizations participate in OpenStack open source projects. In: Journal of Software, 2017 （CCF中文-A） 

26. [Computer Science'17] Yuxia Zhang. Study on bug-fixed traceability of Mozilla project. In: Computer Science, 2017 (CCF中文核心) 

27. [Science & Technology Review'16] Zhi Jin, Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang.  Open source software and its eco-systems: Today and tomorrow. In Science & Technology Review, 2016 (CCF中文核心) 

Academic Services

2023

• PC Member-- ICSE Research Track

• PC Member-- FSE Research Track

2022

• Reviewer -- Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 

• Data Showcase Committee Member -- The 19th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022 Data and Tool Showcase Track) 

• Publication Chair -- The 38th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2022)

• PC Member -- Internetware 2022 

2021

• Reviewer -- Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 

• Reviewer -- Empirical Software Engineering (EmSE)

• Reviewer -- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process 

• Session chair --  ESEC/FSE'21 

Teaching

• Undergraduate Course: Software Testing, 2021 - Present

Selected Awards

• ACM Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE2022

• Sept. 2019 Scientific Research Award of Peking University 

• Sept. 2018 Specialty Scholarship of Peking University 

• Sept. 2018 The First prize of poster track in Internetware conference, ACM Sigsoft 

• Sept. 2017 Specialty Scholarship of Peking University 

• Sept. 2016 Merit Student Award of Peking University 

Hobbies

Fitness, running, reading, and singing.