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, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, since 2025

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, since 2024

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-Present

Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2023-Present

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, 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 2025-2026, ISSTA 2025, FSE 2023-2024, ASE 2023-2024.

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)

1)        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)

2)        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)

3)        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)

4)        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)

5)        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)

6)        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)

7)        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)

Awards

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

Board Member of Supervisors, IEEE Macau