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About Me

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, China. I got my Ph.D degree in December 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Keqing He from Wuhan University, China.

My research focuses on mining knowledge from rich Software Engineering data and developing knowledge-based intelligient approaches to improving developers' productivity and software quality. During my research work, I am interested in adopting various techniques including data mining, knowledge graph, natural language processing, machine learning, and program analysis.

My Chinese homepage can be found at here.

Experience

2024.10 - Present, Associate Professor, Central China Normal University
2021.04 - 2024.10, Assistant Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
2018.12 - 2021.03, Postdoc, Zhejiang University

Education

2014.09 - 2017.12, PhD, Wuhan University
2012.09 - 2014.06, MSc, Wuhan University
2008.09 - 2012.06, BSc, Wuhan University

Publications

Journal

[1] Siyu Nan, Jian Wang, Neng Zhang, Duantengchuan Li, Bing Li. "DDASR: Deep Diverse API Sequence Recommendation". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2024.
[2] Zheng Lin, Neng Zhang*, Chao Liu, Zibin Zheng. "An empirical study of ChatGPT-related projects and their issues on GitHub". Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA, CCF-C, 中科院一区), 2024.
[3] Neng Zhang, Ying Zou, Xin Xia*, Qiao Huang, David Lo, Shanping Li. "Web APIs: Features, Issues, and Expectations -- A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Web APIs from Two Publicly Accessible Registries Using Stack Overflow and A User Survey". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2023.
[4] Neng Zhang, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia*, Ying Zou, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing. "Chatbot4QR: Interactive Query Refinement for Technical Question Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2022.
[5] Bin Tang, Meng Yan*, Neng Zhang, Ling Xu, Xiaohong Zhang, Haijun Ren. "Co-attentive Representation Learning for Web Services Classification". Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA, CCF-C, 中科院一区), 2021.
[6] Neng Zhang, Jian Wang*, Yutao Ma. "Mining Domain Knowledge on Service Goals from Textual Service Descriptions". IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC, CCF-A), 2020.
[7] Neng Zhang, Jian Wang*, Keqing He, Zheng Li, Yiwang Huang. "Mining and Clustering Service Goals for RESTful Service Discovery". Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS, CCF-B), 2019.
[8] Fang Xie, Jian Wang*, Ruibin Xiong, Neng Zhang, Yutao Ma, Keqing He. "An Integrated Service Recommendation Approach for Service-based System Development". Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA, CCF-C, 中科院一区), 2019.
[9] Neng Zhang, Jian Wang, Yutao Ma, Keqing He, Zheng Li, Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu. "Web Service Discovery Based on Goal-oriented Query Expansion". Journal of Systems and Software (JSS, CCF-B), 2018.
[10] Ruibin Xiong, Jian Wang, Neng Zhang, Yutao Ma. "Deep Hybrid Collaborative Filtering for Web Service Recommendation". Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA, CCF-C, 中科院一区), 2018.
[11] Neng Zhang, Keqing He, Jian Wang, Zheng Li. "WSGM‐SD: An Approach to RESTful Service Discovery Based on Weighted Service Goal Model". Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE, SCI), 2016.
[12] Zheng Li, Keqing He, Jian Wang, Neng Zhang. "An On-demand Services Discovery Approach Based on Topic Clustering". Journal of Internet Technology (JIT, SCI), 2014.
[13] Jia Zhang, Jian Wang, Patrick Hung, Zheng Li, Neng Zhang, Keqing He. "Leveraging Incrementally Enriched Domain Knowledge to Enhance Service Categorization". International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR, SCI), 2012.

Conference

[1] Xiangping Chen, Furen Xu, Yuan Huang*, Neng Zhang, Zibin Zheng. "JIT-Smart: A Multi-task Learning Framework for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction and Localization". ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE, CCF-A), Research Track, 2024.
[2] Peilin Zheng, Bowei Su, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen, Neng Zhang, Zibin Zheng*. "LENT-SSE: Leveraging Executed and Near Transactions for Speculative Symbolic Execution of Smart Contracts". ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA, CCF-A), Technical Track, 2024.
[3] Chao Liu, Xuanlin Bao, Hongyu Zhang, Neng Zhang, Haibo Hu, Xiaohong Zhang, Meng Yan*. "Guiding ChatGPT for Better Code Generation: An Empirical Study". IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER, CCF-B), Research Track, 2024.
[4] Xiaoqi Yue, Chao Liu*, Neng Zhang, Haibo Hu, Xiaohong Zhang. "VisRepo: A Visual Retrieval Tool for Large-Scale Open-Source Projects". Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware, CCF-C), Tool DEMO Track, 2024.
[5] Neng Zhang, Qinde Chen*, Zibin Zheng, Ying Zou. "iASTMapper: An Iterative Similarity-Based Abstract Syntax Tree Mapping Algorithm". IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE, CCF-A), Research Track, 2023.
[6] Zibin Zheng, Neng Zhang*, Jianzhong Su, Zhijie Zhong, Mingxi Ye, Jiachi Chen. "Turn the Rudder: A Beacon of Reentrancy Detection for Smart Contracts on Ethereum". IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, CCF-A), Techincal Track, 2023.
[7] Zhongqi Chen; Neng Zhang*; Pengyue Si; Qinde Chen; Chao Liu; Zibin Zheng. "ShellFusion: An Answer Generator for Shell Programming Tasks via Knowledge Fusion". IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, CCF-A), Tool DEMO Track, 2023.
[8] Neng Zhang*, Chao Liu, Xin Xia, Christoph Treude, Ying Zou, David Lo, Zibin Zheng. "ShellFusion: Answer Generation for Shell Programming Tasks via Knowledge Fusion". IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, CCF-A), Technical Track, 2022.
[9] Neng Zhang, Jian Wang*, Keqing He, Zheng Li. "An Approach of Service Discovery based on Service Goal Clustering". IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC, CCF-C), Research Track, 2016.
[10] Jian Wang, Neng Zhang, Ceng Zeng, Zheng Li, Keqing He. "Towards Services Discovery based on Service Goal Extraction and Recommendation". IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC, CCF-C), Research Track, 2013.

Chinese

[1] 杨博, 张能, 李善平, 夏鑫*. "智能代码补全研究综述". 软件学报, 2020
[2] 李征, 王健*, 张能, 李昭, 何成万, 何克清. "一种面向主题的领域服务聚类方法". 计算机研究与发展, 2014
[3] 张能, 王健*, 李征, 何克清. "一种领域服务目标知识库的构建方法". 小型微型计算机系统, 2014