I have joined the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS) as an Assistant Professor (ZJU100 Young Professor). Before that, I recieved my Ph.D at MSF, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. I was very fortunate to work under the supervision Prof. John Grundy and Dr. Xin Xia during my Ph.D studies. Before starting my Ph.D, I worked as a research engineer under the supervision of Prof. Lingxiao Jiang and Prof. David Lo in Singapore Management University. My research interests include software engineering, blockchain technology, data mining, and deep learning, particularly in mining software repositories, search based software engineering, recommender systems. I will be looking for students interested in working on intelligent software engineering and related topics.
目前课题组仍有少量研究生名额，欢迎有保研意向的同学与我们联系!(zhipeng.gao@zju.edu.cn)

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In the Year of 2025:

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Less is More: Adaptive Program Repair with Bug Localization and Preference Learning Zhenlong Dai, Bingrui Chen, Zhuoluo Zhao, Xiu Tang, Sai Wu, Chang Yao, Zhipeng Gao*, Jingyuan Chen*. AAAI 2025 (Accepted as a Main Conference Paper, invited for oral presentation (4.6%), CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Towards Better Answers: Automated Stack Overflow Post Updating Yubo Mai, Zhipeng Gao*, Haoye Wang, Tingting Bi, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun. ICSE 2025 (Accepted as a Research Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2024:

pdf	Automating Comment Generation for Smart Contract from Bytecode Jianhang Xiang, Zhipeng Gao*, Lingfeng Bao, Xing Hu, Jiayuan Chen, Xin Xia. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	SelfPiCo: Self-Guided Partial Code Execution with LLMs Zhipeng Xue, Zhipeng Gao*, Shaohua Wang, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Shanping Li. ISSTA 2024 (Accepted as a Research Full Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Just-In-Time TODO-Missed Commits Detection Haoye Wang, Zhipeng Gao, Xing Hu, David Lo, John Grundy, Xinyu Wang IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	MPCoder: Multi-user Personalized Code Generator with Explicit and Implicit Style Representation Learning Zhenlong Dai, Chang Yao, Wenkang Han, Yuanying, Zhipeng Gao*, Jingyuan Chen* ACL 2024 (Accepted as a Main Conference Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Are Human Rules Necessary? Generating Reusable APIs with CoT Reasoning and In-Context Learning Yubo Mai, Zhipeng Gao*, Xing Hu, Lingfeng Bao, Yu Liu, Jianling Sun FSE 2024 (Accepted as a Research Full Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Easy over Hard: A Simple Baseline for Test Failures Causes Prediction Zhipeng Gao, Zhipeng Xue, Xing Hu, Weiyi Shang & Xin Xia FSE 2024 (Accepted as an Industry Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	What Makes a Good TODO comment? Haoye Wang, Zhipeng Gao*, Tingting Bi, John Grundy, Xinyu Wang, Minghui Wu & Xiaohu Yang ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching Zhipeng Gao, Yanqi Su, Xing Hu & Xin Xia ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Federated Learning for Software Engineering: A Case Study of Code Clone Detection and Defect Prediction Yanming Yang, Xing Hu, Zhipeng Gao, Jinfu Chen, Chao Ni, Xin Xia & David Lo IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2023:

pdf	ACWRecommender: A Tool for Validating Actionable Warnings with Weak Supervision Zhipeng Xue, Zhipeng Gao*, Xing Hu & Shanping Li ASE 2023 (Accepted as an Industry Challenge Paper, Distinguished Paper Award, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	A Closer Look at Different Difficulty Levels Code Generation Abilities of ChatGPT Dapeng Yan, Zhipeng Gao*, & Zhiming Liu ASE 2023 (Accepted as an Industry Challenge Paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	I know what you are searching for: Code snippet recommendation from stack overflow posts Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy, Xindong Zhang & Zhenchang Xing ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Still confusing for bug-component triaging? deep feature learning and ensemble setting to rescue Yanqi Su, Zheming Han, Zhipeng Gao, Zhenchang Xing, Qinghua Lu & Xiwei Xu ICPC 2023 (CCF-B).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2021:

pdf	Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy & Thomas Zimmermann ESEC/FSE 2021 (Accepted as a Research Full paper, CCF-A).   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Code2Que: A Tool for Improving Question Titles from Mined Code Snippets in Stack Overflow Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy & Yuan-Fang Li ASE 2021 (Accepted as a Tool Demo paper, CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Deep Just-In-Time Defect Localization Fangcheng Qiu, Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy & Xinyu Wang IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Automating User Notice Generation for Smart Contract Functions Xing hu, Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, & Xiaohu Yang ASE 2021 (Accepted as a Research Full paper, CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2020:

pdf	Technical Q&A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo & John Grundy ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, John Grundy, David Lo & Yuan-Fang Li ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	Checking Smart Contracts with Structural Code Embedding Zhipeng Gao, Lingxiao Jiang, Xin Xia, David Lo & John Grundy IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

pdf	When Deep Learning Meets Smart Contracts Zhipeng Gao ASE 2020 (Accepted as a Short Paper, CCF-A)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2019:

pdf	SmartEmbed: A Tool for Clone and Bug Detection in Smart Contracts through Structural Code Embedding Zhipeng Gao, Vinoj Jayasundara, Lingxiao Jiang, Xin Xia, David Lo & John Grundy ICSME 2019 (Accepted as a Tool Demo paper, CCF-B)   • arXiv    • Codes    • Slides

In the Year of 2017:

pdf	Data-driven answer selection in community QA systems Liqiang Nie, Xiaochi Wei, Dongxiang Zhang, Xiang Wang, Zhipeng Gao & Yi Yang IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (CCF-A)   • Codes    • Slides

Professional Services

Program Committee: In the Year of 2025: FSE 2025 Research Track, Internetware 2025 Research Track, ICSE 2025 Artifact Evaluation Track, CHASE 2025 Research Track, FORGE 2025 Data and Benchmarking Track In the Year of 2024: APSEC 2024 Technical Track, Internetware 2024 New Idea Track, Chinasoft 2024 Demo Competition Track In the Year of 2023: MSR 2023 Technical Track, Internetware 2023 Research Track, Internetware 2023 Web Chair

Journal Reviewer: Invited Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Invited Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) Invited Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) Invited Reviewer for Empirical Software Engineering (EmSE) Invited Reviewer for Automated Software Engineering (ASEJ) Invited Reviewer for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) Invited Reviewer for Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) Invited Reviewer for Information and Software Technology (IST)

Mentoring Experience

Zhipeng Xue (Ph.D student, Zhejiang University, Supervised from 2022.09)    - Papers: ISSTA2024, ASE2023, FSE2024,

Yubo Mai (Ph.D student, Zhejiang University, Supervised from 2023.06)    - Papers: FSE2024, ICSE2025,

Yu Liu (Ph.D student, Zhejiang University, Supervised from 2024.09)    - Papers: FSE2024,

Zhenlong Dai (Ph.D student, Zhejiang University, Co-supervised with Prof. Jingyuan Chen)    - Papers: AAAI2025, ACL2024,

Jianhang Xiang (Master student, Zhejiang University, Co-supervised with Prof. Lingfeng Bao)    - Papers: TOSEM2024

Xiaoting Zhang (Master student, Zhejiang University, Co-supervised with Prof. Xing Hu)    - Papers: TSE Submitted

Useful Links

How to write clean code

How to write great research paper

Experimentation in Software Engineering

Mining Massive Data Sets

Deep Learning Reading List