Peking University
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Dr. Lu Zhang is a Professor in the Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, P.R. China. He received both PhD and BSc in Computer Science from Peking University in 2000 and 1995 respectively. His PhD advisor is Professor Fuqing Yang. He was a visiting post-doctoral researcher in School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK from September 2000 to February 2001. From April 2001 to January 2003, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK. From April 2003, he joined the Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University. Professor Lu Zhang's current research interests include software maintenance and evolution, software analysis and testing, program comprehension, software reuse and component-based software development.

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1. Chenglong Wang, Jiajun Jiang, Jun Li, Yingfei Xiong, Xiangyu Luo, Lu Zhang, and Zhenjiang Hu, "Transforming Programs between APIs with Many-to-Many Mappings," Proceedings of 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016), 17-22 July 2016.[Download] [BibTex]

2. Jie Zhang, Ziyi Wang, Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, Lei Zang, Shiyang Cheng, Lu Zhang, "Predictive Mutation Testing," Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2016), 18-20 July, 2016.

3. Junjie Chen, Wenxiang Hu, Dan Hao, Yingfei Xiong, Hongyu Zhang, Lu Zhang and Bing Xie, "An Empirical Comparison of Compiler Testing Techniques," Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), 18-20 May 2016.[Download] [BibTex]

4. Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Lei Zang, Yanbo Wang, Xingxia Wu, Tao Xie, "To Be Optimal Or Not in Test-Case Prioritization," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. [Download] [BibTex]

5. Yafeng Lu, Yiling Lou, Shiyang Chen, Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, Yangfan Zhou and Lu Zhang, "How Does Regression Test Prioritization Perform in Real-World Software Evolution?" Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), 18-20 May 2016.[Download] [BibTex]

5. Minghui Zhou, Audris Mockus, Xiujuan Ma, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei, "Inflow and Retention in OSS Communities with Commercial Involvement: A Case Study of Three Hybrids," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 25, No. 2, April 2016, Article 13. [Download] [BibTex]

7. Lili Mou, Ge Li, Lu Zhang, Tao Wang and Zhi Jin, “Convolutional Neural Networks over Tree Structures for Programming Language Processing,” Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), February 12-17, 2016, 1287-1293. [Download] [BibTex]

8. Jinkun Lin, Chuan Luo, Shaowei Cai, Kaile Su, Dan Hao, and Lu Zhang, "TCA: An Efficient Two-Mode Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Combinatorial Test Generation," Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), November, 2015, pp. 494-505. [Download] [BibTex]

9. Qing Gao, Hansheng Zhang, Jie Wang, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei, "Fixing Recurring Crash Bugs via Analyzing Q&A Sites," Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), November, 2015, pp. 307-318. [Download] [BibTex]

10. Yanzhen Zou, Ting Ye, Yangyang Lu, John Mylopoulos, and Lu Zhang, "Learning to Rank for Question Oriented Software Text Retrieval," Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), November, 2015, pp. 1-11. [Download] [BibTex]

11. Lili Mou, Hao Peng, Ge Li, Yan Xu, Lu Zhang, and Zhi Jin, "Discriminative Neural Sentence Modeling by Tree-Based Convolution," Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), 17-21 September 2015, pp. 2315-2325.[Download] [BibTex]

12. Qing Gao, Yingfei Xiong, Yaqing Mi, Lu Zhang, Weikun Yang, Zhaoping Zhou, Bing Xie, and Hong Mei, "Safe Memory-Leak Fixing for C Programs," Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), 20-22 May 2015, pp. 459-470. [Download] [BibTex]

13. Daming Zou, Ran Wang, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, Zhendong Su, and Hong Mei, "A Genetic Algorithm for Detecting Significant Floating-Point Inaccuracies," Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), 20-22 May 2015, pp. 529-539. [Download] [BibTex]

14. Hao Tang, Xiaoyin Wang, Lingming Zhang, Bing Xie, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei, "Summary-Based Context-Sensitive Data-Dependence Analysis in Presence of Callbacks," Proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2015), January 12-18 2015, pp. 83-95. [Download] [BibTex]

15. Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Gregg Rothermel, and Hong Mei, "A Unified Test-Case Prioritization Approach," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2014, Article 10.[Download] [BibTex]

16. Jie Zhang, Junjie Chen, Dan Hao, Yingfei Xiong, Bing Xie, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei, "Search-Based Inference of Polynomial Metamorphic Relations," Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014), September 2014, pp. 701-712. [Download] [BibTex]

17. Xiaoyin Wang, Yingnong Dang, Lu Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Erica Lan, and Hong Mei, "Predicting Consistency-Maintenance Requirement of Code Clones at Copy-and-Paste Time," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 8, August 2014, pp. 773-794. [Download] [BibTex]

18. Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang and Sarfraz Khurshid, "Injecting Mechanical Faults to Localize Developer Faults for Evolving Software," Proceedings of 28th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2013), (part of SPLASH 2013), October 26-31 2013, pp. 765-784. [Download] [BibTex]

19. Dan Hao, Tian Lan, Hongyu Zhang, Chao Guo, and Lu Zhang, "Is This a Bug or an Obsolete Test?" Proceedings of 27th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2013), 3-5 July 2013, pp. 602-628. [Download] [BibTex]

20. Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Gregg Rothermel, and Hong Mei, "Bridging the Gap between the Total and Additional Test-Case Prioritization Strategies," Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), 18-26 May 2013, pp. 192-201. [Download] [BibTex]

21. Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, and Jiasu Sun, "Locating Need-to-Externalize Constant Strings for Software Internationalization with Generalized String-Taint Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 4, April 2013, pp. 516-536. [Download] [BibTex]

22. Hong Mei, Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Ji Zhou, and Gregg Rothermel, "A Static Approach to Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.38, No. 6, 2012, pp. 1258-1275. [Download] [BibTex]

23. Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Yingfei Xiong, and Hong Mei, "Automating Presentation Changes in Dynamic Web Applications via Collaborative Hybrid Analysis," Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-20), 10-17 November, 2012, 16. [Download] [BibTex]

24. Xiaoyin Wang, Yingnong Dang, Lu Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Erica Lan, and Hong Mei, "Can I Clone This Piece of Code Here?" Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), 3-7 September, 2012, pp. 170-179. [Download] [BibTex]

25. Lingming Zhang, Darko Marinov, and Lu Zhang, and Sarfraz Khurshid, "Regression Mutation Testing," Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2012), 15-20 July, 2012, pp. 331-341. [Download] [BibTex]

26. Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Xingxia Wu, Hong Mei, and Gregg Rothermel, "On-Demand Test Suite Reduction," Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), 2-9 June 2012, pp. 738-748. [Download] [BibTex]

27. Sichen Meng, Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei, "A History-Based Matching Approach to Identification of Framework Evolution," Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), 2-9 June 2012, pp. 353-363. [Download] [BibTex]

28. Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, and Jiasu Sun, "Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings in Web Applications," Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-18), 7-11 November, 2010, pp. 87-96. [Download] [BibTex]

29. Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jiefeng Cheng, Lu Zhang, Hong Mei, and Jeffrey Xu Yu, "Matching Dependence-Related Queries in the System Dependence Graph," Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010), 20-24 September, 2010, pp. 457-466. [Download] [BibTex]

30. Lu Zhang, Shan-Shan Hou, Jun-Jue Hu, Tao Xie, and Hong Mei, "Is Operator-Based Mutant Selection Superior to Random Mutant Selection?" Proceedings of 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Vol. 1, 2-8 May 2010, pp. 435-444. [Download] [BibTex]

31. Hao Zhong, Suresh Thummalapanta, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang, and Qing Wang, "Mining API Mapping for Language Migration," Proceedings of 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Vol. 1, 2-8 May 2010, pp. 195-204. [Download] [BibTex]

32. Hao Zhong, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, and Hong Mei, "Inferring Resource Specifications from Natural Language API Documentation," Proceedings of the 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2009), 16-20 November 2009, pp. 307-318. (Best Paper Award and Distinguished Paper Award) [Download] [BibTex]

33. Lu Zhang, Shan-Shan Hou, Chao Guo, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, "Time-Aware Test-Case Prioritization using Integer Linear Programming," Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2009), 19-23 July 2009, pp. 213-223. [Download] [BibTex]

34. Hao Zhong, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang, Jian Pei, and Hong Mei, "MAPO: Mining and Recommending API Usage Patterns," Proceedings of 23rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2009), 6-10 July 2009, pp. 318-343. [Download] [BibTex]

35. Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, and Jiasu Sun, "Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings for Software Internationalization," Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), 16-24 May 2009, pp. 353-363. [Download] [BibTex]

36. Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, John Anvik, and Jiasu Sun, "An Approach to Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports using Natural Language and Execution Information," Proceedings of 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2008), May 2008, pp. 461-470. [Download] [BibTex]

37. Wei Zhao, Lu Zhang, Yin Liu, Jiasu Sun, and Fuqing Yang, "SNIAFL: Towards a Static Noninteractive Approach to Feature Location," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 195-226. [Download] [BibTex]

38. Ying Pan, Lei Wang, Lu Zhang, Bing Xie, and Fuqing Yang, "Relevancy Based Semantic Interoperation of Reuse Repositories," Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-12), 31 Oct-5 Nov 2004, pp. 211-220. [Download] [BibTex]

39. Wei Zhao, Lu Zhang, Yin Liu, Jiasu Sun, and Fuqing Yang, "SNIAFL: Towards a Static Non-Interactive Approach to Feature Location," Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2004), 23-28 May 2004, pp. 293-303. (Distinguished Paper Award) [Download] [BibTex]