Zhaoxu Zhang (张兆旭)

Email: zhaoxuzh at usc dot edu
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I am Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), supervised by Prof. William G.J. Halfond. I received my B.Eng. degree at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2020 supervised by Prof. Yepang Liu.

My research interests is the combination of Software Engineering and Testing, Natural Language Processing and Bug Reproduction.

News

  • [April 16, 2023] Our second paper on mobile bug report reproduction is accepted to FSE 2024!
  • [September 21, 2023] I passed my Qualifying Exam and became a Ph.D. candidate now!
  • [January 16, 2023] Our paper on mobile bug report reproduction is accepted to ISSTA 2023!
  • [December 24, 2020] Started my PhD life in USC!
  • [June 1, 2020] Recieved the honor of Summa Cum Laude Graduate from SUSTech

Education

  • University of Southern California
    Sep. 2020 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Honor: Graduate School Fellowship
    Los Angeles, California USA
  • Southern University of Science and Technology
    Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
    B.E. in Computer Science
    Honor: Summa Cum Laude
    Shenzhen, Guangdong China

Publications

* denotes equal contribution
  1. [FSE 2024 (to appear)] Zhaoxu Zhang, Fazle Mohammed Tawsif, Komei Ryu, Tingting Yu, William G.J. Halfond. Mobile Bug Report Reproduction via Global Search on the App UI Model. In the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, July 15-19, 2024 (Acceptance Rate 121/483=25%).

  2. [ISSTA 2023] Zhaoxu Zhang, Robert Winn, Yu Zhao, Tingting Yu, William G.J. Halfond. Automatically Reproducing Android Bug Reports Using Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning. In the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 17-21, 2023 (Acceptance Rate 117/372=31.4%). [pdf] [website] [tool]

  3. [SANER 2020] Zhaoxu Zhang*, Hengcheng Zhu*, Ming Wen, Yida Tao, Yepang Liu, Yingfei Xiong. How Do Python Framework APIs Evolve? An Exploratory Study. In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering London, Ontario, Canada, February 18-21, 2020. [pdf] [slides] [talk]

Service

  • Journal reviewer: TOSEM 2024 (sub-reviewer), TOSEM 2023, IoT 2023 (sub-reviewer)
  • PC member: ISSTA 2023 Artifact Evaluation Track

Honors and Award

  • Summa Cum Laude Graduate, 南方科技大学十佳毕业生 (June 2020)
  • SUSTech Annual Outstanding Student, First Level (October 2018)
  • SUSTech Annual Outstanding Student, First Level (October 2017)