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Dr. Tao Zhang is a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau SAR. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Seoul, followed by a one-year appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also holds a B.S. in Automation and an M.Eng in Software Engineering from Northeastern University, China.
Dr. Zhang serves as the Founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Macau Chapter and is the Conference Chair for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Senior Member of both ACM and IEEE, and a Distinguished Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF). He has also been named a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society.
With over 100 publications in leading journals and conferences in the fields of software engineering and security, his work has appeared in venues such as ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, TSE, TOSEM, EMSE, JSS, IST, TIFS, TDSC, and TSC. Dr. Zhang has held leadership roles as General Chair for numerous academic conferences, including ISSRE 2027, APSEC 2025, and SANER 2023. He also regularly serves as a Program Committee member for top-tier software engineering conferences such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, and ISSTA.
In his editorial roles, Dr. Zhang is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TRel), the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), and the IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJCS). Additionally, he is an Editorial Board Member of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) and Science of Computer Programming (SCP).
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