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)

Publications Google Scholar

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

Look for the full publication list? Please see my CV or visit Google Scholar.

Invited Talks and Presentations

第一届软件工程前沿论坛 优博论坛    - Hangzhou, China, June 27, 2021 (invited by Dr. Xin Xia)

中国软件大会 NASAC-FMAC 2020优秀博士生论坛    - Chongqing, China, November 11, 2020 (invited by Dr. Yanyan Jiang and Dr. Yan Cai)

Checking Smart Contracts with Structural Code Embedding    - Invited to ESEC/FSE 2021 as part of the Journal First Paper Track.

Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets    - Invited to ESEC/FSE 2021 as part of the Journal First Paper Track.

Technical Q&A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting    - Invited to ICSE 2021 as part of the Journal First Paper Track.

Professional Services

Invited Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Invited Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) Invited Reviewer for Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Invited Reviewer for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) Invited Reviewer for Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) External Reviewer of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Invited Reviewer for International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) Invited Reviewer for International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

Useful Links

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