Ting Zhang 张婷

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Research Scientist @ Singapore Management University (SMU)

Email: happygirlzt@gmail.com


About Me

My name is Ting Zhang, a.k.a., happygirlzt. I am a research scientist at SMU since Feb 2024. Prior to this, I defended my doctoral dissertation titled "Supporting Software Engineers with Large Language Model-Based Automation" on 13 Dec 2023. I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. David Lo and Prof. Lingxiao Jiang. Previously, I got my Master degree from Nanyang Technological University and Bachelor degree from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).

Research Interests

My research aims to support software developers in (1) understanding the sentiment expressed in software artifacts (ICSME'20, ICPC'22), (2) enhancing software development efficiency and effectiveness (ICSME'22, ASE'22, TOSEM'22, SANER'23, MSR'23).

Publications

    * indicates I am the corresponding author.
  • [TOSEM 2023] Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far are We?
    Junda He, Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu, Ting Zhang, Kisub Kim, Zhou Yang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung and David Lo.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [MSR 2023] PICASO: Enhancing API Recommendations with Relevant Stack Overflow Posts
    Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ting Zhang*, Ferdian Thung, Kisub Kim, and David Lo.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [SANER 2023] Multi-Modal API Recommendation
    Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ting Zhang*, Ferdian Thung, Kisub Kim, and David Lo.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [TOSEM 2023, ASE 2023 Journal First] Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?
    Ting Zhang, DongGyun Han, Venkatesh Vinayakarao, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [FSE 2022 Demo] iTiger: An Automatic Issue Title Generation Tool
    Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [FSE 2022 Demo] CodeMatcher: A Tool for Large-Scale Code Search Based on Query Semantics Matching
    Chao Liu, Xuanlin Bao, Xin Xia, Meng Yan, David Lo, and Ting Zhang.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [ASE 2022] Summarization for Technical Queries: Benchmark and New Approach
    Chengran Yang, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, Yucen Shi, Ting Zhang, Zhou Yang, Xin Zhou, Jieke Shi, Junda He, DongGyun Han and David Lo.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [ICSME 2022] Automatic Pull Request Title Generation
    Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, DongGyun Han, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [ICPC 2022] Benchmarking Library Recognition in Tweets
    Ting Zhang, Divya Prabha Chandrasekaran, Ferdian Thung and David Lo.
    [PDF] [Code]

  • [ICSME 2020] Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering: How Far Can Pre-trained Transformer Models Go?
    Ting Zhang, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, Stefanus Agus Haryono, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang.
    [PDF] [Code]

Pre-print (Under Journal Submission)

  • Cupid: Leveraging ChatGPT for More Accurate Duplicate Bug Report Detection
    Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo.
    [PDF]

  • Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models
    Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo.
    [PDF]

  • Evaluating Pre-trained Language Models for Repairing API Misuses
    Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Asankhaya Sharma, and Lingxiao Jiang
    [PDF]

Teaching

  • I occasionally teach algorithms in YouTube, where I proudly have 13k+ subscribers.
  • I was a teaching assistant for
    • IS706: Software Mining and Analysis (2022 Spring, SMU)
    • Probability & Mathematical Statistics (2017 Summer, SYSU)
    • Discrete Mathematics (2016 Summer, SYSU)

Talks

  • 22 Nov 2023, Automatic Program Repair event at National University of Singapore, Repairing API misuse
  • 20 Nov 2023, North Carolina State University, Large Langague Models for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering

Internship

  • Veracode: Repairing API misuse bugs. May - August 2022

Services

Selected Honors & Awards

SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Computing, AY2023/2024.
Full Scholarship for the Ph.D. study, 2020 - 2023.
Second-class Scholarship in SYSU, AY2015/2016.

Misc

I enjoy cycling, running, and swimming. I am currently a member of the SMU Aquathlon team. I was a member of the SYSU rowing team. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to represent SYSU in several national and international-level rowing competitions. Check out the moments.