About

Haoxiang Zhang’s research interests cover a wide range of topics in empirical software engineering, software repository mining, and intelligent software analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2020) under Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan from Queen’s University, Canada, studying the maintenance of crowdsourced knowledge on Stack Overflow. Before moving to Canada, he graduated with BS in Physics from the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He earned MSc in Electrical Engineering (2010) and Ph.D. in Physics (2013) under Dr. Michael Stavola from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, studying defects in multi-crystalline silicon. He was a physicist conducting R&D in diamond high pressure high temperature color treatment in New York City (2013-2015), and a postdoctoral research fellow conducting research in silicon-based atomic clock and multidimensional nonlinear spectrometer at the University of South Florida/National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida (2015-2017).