Short Bio

I'm currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University (SDU). In Oct. 2023, I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), under the supervision of Prof. Jacky Wai Keung. From Jan. to Sept. 2022, I was very honored to visit the Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education (Peking University), where my supervisors are Prof. Zhi Jin and Prof. Ge Li. My current research focuses on software engineering and natural language processing. Before pursuing the Ph.D., I received my B.Mgt. degree in Information System from the University of Jinan (UJN) in 2018 and received my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science with Distinction from the CityU in 2019.

I'm looking for self-motivated CS students (local/international) with proficient programming capability in at least Python. I have one quota for the master's program per year (2024Fall: 1/1), and our group also welcomes undergraduate students to participate in our research activities and group meetings. Feel free to drop me your CV. Thanks!

Selected Publications (*corresponding author)

Exploring and Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models in Automated Code Translation
Zhen Yang, Fang Liu, Zhongxing Yu, Jacky Wai Keung, Jia Li, Shuo Liu, Yifan Hong, Xiaoxue Ma, Zhi Jin, Ge Li
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024) (CCF-A)

Delving into Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Code Change Learning: An Empirical Study
Shuo Liu, Jacky Wai Keung, Zhen Yang*, Fang Liu, Qilin Zhou, Yihan Liao
In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) (CCF-B)

Improving Domain-Specific Neural Code Generation with Few-shot Meta-Learning
Zhen Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Zeyu Sun, Yunfei Zhao, Ge Li, Zhi Jin, Shuo Liu, Yishu Li
Information and Software Technology (IST 2023) (JCR: Q1; IF: 3.9; CCF B)

On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization
Zhen Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Xiao Yu, Yan Xiao, Zhi Jin, Jingyu Zhang
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2022) (JCR: Q1; IF: 4.4; CCF A)

CASMS: Combining clustering with attention semantic model for identifying security bug reports
Xiaoxue Ma, Jacky Wai Keung, Zhen Yang, Xiao Yu, Yishu Li, Hao Zhang
Information and Software Technology (IST 2022) (JCR: Q1; IF: 3.9; CCF B)

AComNN: Attention Enhanced Compound Neural Network For Financial Time-Series Forecasting With Cross-Regional Features
Zhen Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Md Alamgir Kabir, Xiao Yu, Yutian Tang, Miao Zhang, Shuo Feng
Applied Soft Computing Journal (ASC 2021) (中科院一区; JCR: Q1; IF: 8.7)

A Multi-Modal Transformer-based Code Summarization Approach for Smart Contracts
Zhen Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Xiao Yu, Xiaodong Gu, Zhengyuan Wei, Xiaoxue Ma, Miao Zhang
In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021), Virtual, May 18 - 20, 2021 (CCF-B)

Smart Contracts Vulnerability Auditing with Multi-semantics
Zhen Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Miao Zhang, Yan Xiao, Yangyang Huang, Tik Hui
In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2020), Madrid, Spain, Jul 13 - 17, 2020 (CCF-C)