Academic Qualification
Ph.D., University of Seoul, South Korea, 2013
M.E., Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 2008
B.Sc., Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 2005
Teaching Area
Software Engineering
Software Engineering Practices
Software Project Management
Research Area
AI for Software Engineering
Software Security
Mining Software Repositories
Professional Services
Conferences Co-Chair (Paper Awards), IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE), 2025-2026
Chair, IEEE Macau Computer Society Chapter, 2025-Present
Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, since 2026
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, since 2025
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024-2026
Associate Editor, Journal of Systems and Software, since 2024
Editorial Board Member, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), since 2024
Editorial Board Member, Science of Computer Programming (SCP), since 2024
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2022-2024
Board Member of Distinguished Reviewers, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2022-2024
Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2023-2026
General Co-Chair, 38th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2027)
General Co-Chair, 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2025)
General Chair, 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2023)
Program Co-Chair, 19th CCF International Conference on Service Science (ICSS 2026)
Program Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Advanced Security on Software and Systems (ASSS 2025)
Program Co-Chair, 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2024)
Program Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA 2021)
PC Member of Top-four International Conference in Software Engineering Field: ICSE 2025-2027, ISSTA 2025-2026, FSE 2023-2024&2026, ASE 2023-2024&2026
Working Experience
Jul. 2025 to Present: Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR
Sept. 2019 to Jun. 2025: Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR
Dec. 2016 to Aug. 2019: Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, China
Feb. 2016 to Dec. 2016: Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Nov. 2014 to Nov. 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Mar. 2014 to Aug. 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Mar. 2013 to Feb. 2014: Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Seoul, South Korea
Selected Publication
(*means the corresponding author)
Zhengquan Li, Yao Li, Tao Zhang*, Cuiyun Gao, and Zishuo Ding, “Towards More Accurate App Review Response Generation with Fine-Grained Filtering”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Accepted, 2026. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Jie Cai, Jiachi Chen, Tao Zhang*, Xiapu Luo, Xiaobing Sun, and Bin Li*, “Detecting Reentrancy Vulnerabilities for Solidity Smart Contracts with Contract Standards-Based Rules”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 20, pp. 3662-3676, 2025. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Yao Li, Sen Fang, Tao Zhang*, and Haipeng Cai, “Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 34, No. 8, Article No. 226, pp. 1-30, November 2025. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Yao Li, Dawei Yuan, Tao Zhang*, Haipeng Cai, David Lo, Cuiyun Gao, Xiapu Luo, and He Jiang, “Meta-Learning for Multi-Family Android Malware Classification”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 33, No. 7, Article No. 174, pp. 1-27, September 2024. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Yao Li, Tao Zhang*, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai, Sen Fang, and Dawei Yuan, “Do Pretrained Language Models Indeed Understand Software Engineering Tasks?”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 4639-4655, October 2023. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Youshuai Tan, Jinfu Chen, Weiyi Shang, Tao Zhang*, Sen Fang, Xiapu Luo, Zijie Chen, and Shuhao Qi, “STRE: An Automated Approach to Suggesting App Developers When to Stop Reading Reviews”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 4135-4151, August 2023. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Sen Fang, Tao Zhang*, Youshuai Tan, He Jiang, Xin Xia, and Xiaobing Sun, “RepresentThemAll: A Universal Learning Representation of Bug Reports”, Proc. of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’23), pp. 602-614, May 14-20, 2023. (CCF-A, Top-tier Conference)
Tao Zhang, Jiachi Chen, Xian Zhan, Xiapu Luo, David Lo, and He Jiang, “Where2Change: Change Request Localization for App Reviews”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 2590-2616, November 2021. (CCF-A, Top-tier Journal)
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society, February 2026
Fellow, British Computer Society (BCS), February 2026
Distinguished Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), September 2025
Top Reviewer Award 2023, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Apr. 2024
Distinguished Reviewer in 2023, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Feb. 2024
Top Reviewer Award 2020, Information and Software Technology (IST), May 2021
Best Paper Award, 16th Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE), Feb. 2014
Honor Prize, 18th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award, Feb. 2012
Bronze Prize, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest, Dec. 2011
Second Place Award, National Senior High School Mathematics Tournament, Oct. 1999
Professional Society Membership
CCF Distinguished Member
ACM/IEEE Senior Member
Member of CCF Technical Committee on Software Engineering
Member of Executive Board, IEEE Macau
