About
I am enthusiastic about making contributions to the AIOps ecosystem to facilitate collaboration between industry and academia.
Together with Prof. Dan Pei, we launched the 4th CCF AIOps Challenge and Workshop from November 2020 to May 2021.
Our team has released AIOps tools and benchmarks for multiple AIOps scenarios.
๐ Our team has released AIOpsLab, an open-source framework designed to evaluate, improve, and standardize AI agents for automating cloud operations.
It provides a reproducible environment for realistic service operations, allowing researchers and engineers to enhance agent performance and capabilities with improved observability.
I always seek self-motivated undergraduate,
master's, and Ph.D. intern students with strong programming skills. Please email me your CV if
you are interested in working with me.
Experience
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Microsoft
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M365 Research โย ย ย ย
Senior Researcher Redmond, Feb, 2024 - ย Now
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DKI โโโโโโโย ย
Senior Researcher Beijing, Jul, 2023 - ย Jan, 2024
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MSRA โโโโโโย
Researcher Beijing, Jul, 2021 - ย Jun, 2023
- Georgia Tech โโโโโย Visiting Scholar Atlanta, Sep, 2019 - Aug, 2020
- Alibaba โโโโโโโย ย ย
Research Intern Beijing, Dec, 2018 - Aug, 2019
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Sogou โโโโโโโโย
Research Intern Beijing, Dec, 2016 - ย Apr, 2018
Publications
* corresponding author,
+ equal contribution, ๐ paper, ๐ป code, ๐ฝ dataset, and ๐ BibTeX.
Benchmark, Survey
- FSE'25โOpsEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Large Language
Modelsโ Capability in IT Operations Domain
Yuhe Liu, Changhua Pei, Longlong Xu, Bohan Chen, Mingze Sun, Zhirui Zhang, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Kun Wang,
Haiming Zhang, Jianhui Li, Gaogang Xie, Xidao Wen, Xiaohui Nie, Minghua Ma, Dan Pei
- MLSys'25โAIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Cloud
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Yinfang Chen, Manish Shetty, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma*, Yogesh Simmhan, Jonathan Mace, Chetan Bansal, Rujia Wang, Saravan Rajmohan
- Constructing Large-Scale Real-World Benchmark Datasets for AIOps
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Zeyan Li, Nengwen Zhao, Shenglin Zhang, Yongqian Sun, Pengfei Chen, Xidao Wen,
Minghua Ma, Dan Pei.
- Large Language Model-Brained GUI Agents: A Survey
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Chaoyun Zhang, Shilin He, Jiaxu Qian, Bowen Li, Liqun Li, Si Qin, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang
- TOSEM'25โFailure Diagnosis in Microservice Systems: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis
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Shenglin Zhang, Sibo Xia, Wenzhao Fan, Binpeng Shi, Xiao Xiong, Zhenyu Zhong, Minghua Ma, Yongqian Sun, Dan Pei
- A Survey of Time Series Anomaly Detection Methods in the AIOps Domain
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Zhenyu Zhong and Qiliang Fan, Jiacheng Zhang, Minghua Ma, Shenglin Zhang,
Yongqian Sun, Qingwei Lin, Yuzhi Zhang, Dan Pei.
Conference
- NAACL'25โUFO: A UI-Focused Agent for Windows OS Interaction
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Chaoyun Zhang, Liqun Li, Shilin He, Xu Zhang, Bo Qiao, Si Qin, Minghua Ma, Yu
Kang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang.
- SANER'25โAIOpsArena: Scenario-Oriented Evaluation and Leaderboard for AIOps Algorithms in Microservices
Yongqian Sun, Jiaju Wang, Zhengdan Li, Xiaohui Nie, Minghua Ma, Shenglin Zhang, Yuhe Ji, Lu Zhang, Wen Long, Yongnan Luo, Hengmao Chen, Dan Pei
- ICDE'25โAllHands: Ask Me Anything on Large-scale Verbatim Feedback via Large Language Models
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Chaoyun Zhang, Zicheng Ma, Yuhao Wu, Shilin He, Si Qin, Minghua Ma, Xiaoting Qin, Yu Kang, Yuyi Liang, Xiaoyu Gou, Yajie Xue, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang
- SoCC'24โBuilding AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
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Manish Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Dax Vandevoorde, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
- SoCC'24 Deoxys: A Causal Inference Engine for Unhealthy Node Mitigation in Large-scale Cloud Infrastructure
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Chaoyun Zhang, Randolph Yao, Si Qin, Ze Li, Shekhar Agrawal, Binit Mishra, Tri Tran, Minghua Ma, Qingwei Lin, Murali Chintalapati, Dongmei Zhang
- ASE'24โEnd-to-End AutoML for Unsupervised Log Anomaly Detection
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Shenglin Zhang, Yuhe Ji, Jiaqi Luan, Xiaohui Nie, Ziโang Chen, Minghua Ma, Yongqian Sun, Dan Pei
- ASE'24โART: A Unified Unsupervised Framework for Incident Management in Microservice Systems
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Yongqian Sun, Binpeng Shi, Mingyu Mao, Minghua Ma, Sibo Xia, Shenglin Zhang, Dan Pei.
- ISSRE'24โEnhanced Fine-Tuning of Lightweight Domain-Specific Q&A model Based on Large Language Models
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Shenglin Zhang, Pengtian Zhu, Minghua Ma, Jiagang Wang, Yongqian Sun, Dongwen Li, Jingyu Wang, Qianying Guo, Xiaolei Hua, Lin Zhu, Dan Pei.
- ISSRE'24โEarly Bird: Ensuring Reliability of Cloud Systems Through Early Failure Prediction
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Yudong Liu, Minghua Ma*, Pu Zhao, Tianci Li, Bo Qiao, Shuo Li, Ze Li, Murali Chintalapati, Yingnong Dang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
๐ IEEE the 35th ISSRE Best Industry Paper Candidates
- ISSRE'24โLarge Language Models Can Provide Accurate and Interpretable Incident Triage
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Zexin Wang, Jianhui Li, Minghua Ma*, Ze Li, Yu Kang, Chaoyun Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Murali Chintalapati, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Changhua Pei, Gaogang Xie.
- ISSRE'24โCan We Trust Auto-Mitigation? Improving Cloud Failure Prediction with Uncertain Positive Learning
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Haozhe Li, Minghua Ma*, Yudong Liu, Pu Zhao, Shuo Li, Lingling Zheng, Ze Li, Murali Chintalapati, Yingnong Dang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- KDD'24โPre-trained KPI Anomaly Detection Model Based on
Disentangled Transformer
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Zhaoyang Yu, Changhua Pei, Xin Wang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Saravan
Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Xidao Wen, Jianhui li, Gaogang Xie, Dan Pei.
- KDD'24โMicroservice Root Cause Analysis With Limited
Observability Through Intervention Recognition in the Latent Space
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Zhe Xie, Shenglin Zhang, Yitong Geng, Yao Zhang, Minghua Ma, Xiaohui Nie,
Zhenhe Yao, Longlong Xu, Yongqian Sun, Wentao Li, Dan Pei.
- ACL'24โEverything of Thoughts: Defying the Law of Penrose
Triangle for Thought Generation
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Ruomeng Ding, Chaoyun Zhang, Lu Wang, Yong Xu, Minghua Ma, Wei Zhang, Si Qin,
Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- FSE'24โMonitorAssistant: Simplifying Cloud Service Monitoring via
Large Language Models
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Zhaoyang Yu, Minghua Ma*, Chaoyun Zhang, Si Qin, Yu Kang, Chetan Bansal,
Saravan Rajmohan, Yingnong Dang, Changhua Pei, Dan Pei, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- FSE'24โAutomated Root Causing of Cloud Incidents using In-Context
Learning with GPT-4
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Xuchao Zhang, Supriyo Ghosh, Chetan Bansal, Rujia Wang, Minghua Ma, Yu Kang,
Saravan Rajmohan.
- TheWebConf'24โRevisiting VAE for Unsupervised Time
Series Anomaly Detection: A Frequency Perspective
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Zexin Wang, Changhua Pei, Minghua Ma, Xin Wang, Zhihan Li, Dan Pei,
Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Haiming Zhang, Jianhui li, Gaogang Xie.
- VLDB'24โImDiffusion: Imputed Diffusion Models for Multivariate
Time
Series Anomaly Detection
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Yuhang Chen, Chaoyun Zhang, Minghua Ma, Yudong Liu, Ruomeng Ding, Bowen Li,
Shilin He,
Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- ICSE'24โXpert: Empowering Incident Management with Query
Recommendations via Large Language Models
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Yuxuan Jiang, Chaoyun Zhang, Shilin He, Zhihao Yang, Minghua Ma, Si Qin, Yu
Kang,
Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- EuroSys'24โAutomatic Root Cause Analysis via Large Language
Models for Cloud Incidents
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Yinfang Chen, Huaibing Xie, Minghua Ma*, Yu Kang, Xin Gao, Liu Shi, Yunjie
Cao,
Xuedong Gao, Hao Fan, Ming Wen, Jun Zeng, Supriyo Ghosh, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang,
Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang.
- ISSRE'23โCODEC: Cost-Effective Duration Prediction System for
Deadline Scheduling in the Cloud
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Haozhe Li, Minghua Ma, Yudong Liu, Si Qin, Bo Qiao, Randolph Yao,
Harshwardhan
Chaturvedi, Tri Tran, Murali Chintalapati, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin and Dongmei
Zhang.
- FSE'23โAssess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with
Large
Language Models
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Pengxiang Jin+, Shenglin Zhang+, Minghua Ma, Haozhe
Li, Yu
Kang, Liqun Li, Yudong Liu, Bo Qiao, Chaoyun Zhang, Pu Zhao, Shilin He, Federica Sarro,
Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- FSE'23โDetection is Better Than Cure - A Cloud Incidents
Perspective
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Vaibhav Ganatra, Anjaly Parayil, Supriyo Ghosh, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan
Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace.
- FSE'23โTraceDiag: Adaptive, Interpretable and Efficient Root
Cause
Analysis on Large-Scale Microservice Systems
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Ruomeng Ding, Chaoyun Zhang, Lu Wang, Yong Xu, Minghua Ma, Xiaomin Wu, Meng
Zhang, Qingjun Chen, Xin Gao, Xuedong Gao, HaoFan, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin,
Dongmei
Zhang.
- KDD'23โRobust Multimodal Failure Detection for
Microservice Systems
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Chenyu Zhao+, Minghua Ma+, Zhenyu Zhong, Shenglin
Zhang,
Zhiyuan Tan, Xiao Xiong, LuLu Yu, Jiayi Feng, Yongqian Sun, Yuzhi Zhang, Dan Pei,
Qingwei
Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- DSN'23โCharacterizing Large-Scale Private and Public Cloud
Workloads
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Xiaoting Qin, Minghua Ma, Yuheng Zhao, Jue Zhang, Chao Du, Yudong Liu,
Anjaly Parayil, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Inigo Goiri, Eli Cortez, Si Qin,
Qingwei
Lin, Dongmei Zhang.
- TheWebConf'23โEDITS: An Easy-to-difficult Training Strategy for
Cloud
Failure Prediction
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Tianci Li, Pu Zhao, Yudong Liu, Minghua Ma, Lingling Zheng, Murali
Chintalapati, Bo Liu, Paul Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei
Lin
and Dongmei Zhang.
- ICSE-SEIP'23โAegis: Attribution of Control Plane Change Impact
across
Layers and Components for Cloud Systems
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Xiaohan Yan, Ken Hsieh, Yasitha Liyanage, Minghua Ma, Murali Chintalapati,
Qingwei Lin, Yingnong Dang and Dongmei Zhang.
- ICSE-SEIP'23โTraceArk: Towards Actionable Performance Anomaly
Alerting for Online Service Systems
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Zhengran Zeng, Yuqun Zhang, Yong Xu, Minghua Ma, Bo Qiao, Wentao Zou,
Qingjun Chen, Meng Zhang, Xu Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Xuedong Gao, Hao Fan, Saravan
Rajmohan,
Qingwei Lin and Dongmei Zhang.
- ICSE-SEIP'23โCONAN: Diagnosing Batch Failures for Cloud Systems
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Liqun Li, Xu Zhang, Shilin He, Yu Kang, Hongyu Zhang, Minghua Ma, Yingnong
Dang, Zhangwei Xu, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin and Dongmei Zhang.
- FSE'22โAn Empirical Investigation of Missing Data Handling in
Cloud
Node Failure Prediction
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Minghua Ma, Yudong Liu, Yuang Tong, Haozhe Li, Pu Zhao, Yong Xu, Hongyu
Zhang, Shilin He, Lu Wang, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin.
- FSE'22โAn Empirical Study of Log Analysis at Microsoft
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Shilin He, Xu Zhang, Pinjia He, Yong Xu, Liqun Li, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma,
Yining Wei, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin.
- KDD'22โMulti-task Hierarchical Classification for Disk Failure
Prediction in Online Service Systems
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Yudong Liu, Hailan Yang, Pu Zhao, Minghua Ma, Chengwu Wen, Hongyu Zhang,
Chuan Luo, Qingwei Lin, Chang Yi, Jiaojian Wang, Chenjian Zhang, Paul Wang, Yingnong
Dang,
Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang.
- TheWebConf'22โUniParser: A Unified Log Parser for Heterogeneous
Log
Data
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Yudong Liu, Xu Zhang, Shilin He, Hongyu Zhang, Liqun Li, Yu Kang, Yong Xu, Minghua
Ma, Qingwei Lin, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang.
- DEXA'22โMining Fluctuation Propagation Graph among Time Series
with
Human-in-the-Loop
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Mingjie Li, Minghua Ma, Xiaohui Nie, Kanglin Yin, Li Cao, Xidao Wen, Zhiyun
Yuan, Duogang Wu, Guoying Li, Wei Liu, Xin Yang, Dan Pei.
- ATC'21โJump-Starting Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
for
Online Service Systems
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Minghua Ma, Shenglin Zhang, Junjie Chen, Jim Xu, Haozhe Li, Yongliang Lin,
Xiaohui Nie, Bo Zhou, Yong Wang, Dan Pei.
- VLDB'20โDiagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in
Cloud
Databases
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Minghua Ma, Zheng Yin, Shenglin Zhang, Sheng Wang, Christopher Zheng,
Xinhao Jiang, Hanwen Hu, Cheng Luo, Yilin Li, Nengjun Qiu, Feifei Li, Changcheng Chen,
Dan
Pei.
- ISSRE'18โRobust and Rapid Adaption for Concept Drift in Software
System Anomaly Detection
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Minghua Ma, Shenglin Zhang, Dan Pei, Xin Huang, Hongwei Dai.
๐ IEEE the 29th ISSRE Best Research Paper
- IWQoS'17โYou Can Hide, but Your Periodic Schedule Canโt
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Minghua Ma, Kai Zhao, Kaixin Sui, Lei Xu, Yong Li, Dan Pei.
- IWQoS'16โYour Trajectory Privacy Can Be Breached Even If You Walk
in
Groups
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Kaixin Sui, Youjian Zhao, Dapeng Liu, Minghua Ma, Lei Xu, Li Zimu, Dan Pei.
- UbiComp'16โEDUM: Classroom Education Measurements via Large-scale
WiFi
Networks
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Mengyu Zhou, Minghua Ma, Yangkun Zhang, Kaixin Sui, Dan Pei, Thomas
Moscibroda.
- MobiSys'16โCharacterizing and Improving WiFi Latency in
Large-Scale
Operational Networks
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Kaixin Sui, Mengyu Zhou, Dapeng Liu, Minghua Ma, Dan Pei.
- INFOCOM'16โWiFi can Be the Weakest Link of Round Trip Network
Latency
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Changhua Pei, Youjian Zhao, Guo Chen, Ruming Tang, Yuan Meng, Minghua Ma,
Ken Ling, Dan Pei.
Journal
- TSC'23โRobust Failure Diagnosis of Microservice System
through Multimodal Data
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Shenglin Zhang, Pengxiang Jin, Zihan Lin, Yongqian Sun, Bicheng Zhang, Sibo Xia,
Zhengdan Li, Zhenyu Zhong, Minghua Ma, Wa Jin, Dai Zhang, Zhenyu Zhu,
Dan Pei.
- TNSM'19โAutomatic and Generic Periodicity Adaptation for KPI
Anomaly
Detection
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Nengwen Zhao, Jing Zhu, Yao Wang, Minghua Ma, Wenchi Zhang, Dapeng Liu,
Ming Zhang, Dan Pei.
Preprint
- Large Language Models can Deliver Accurate and Interpretable Time Series Anomaly Detection
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Jun Liu, Chaoyun Zhang, Jiaxu Qian, Minghua Ma, Si Qin, Chetan Bansal, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
- TaskWeaver: A Code-First Agent Framework
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Bo Qiao, Liqun Li, Xu Zhang, Shilin He, Yu Kang, Chaoyun Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Hang Dong,
Jue
Zhang, Lu Wang, Minghua Ma, Pu Zhao, Si Qin, Xiaoting Qin, Chao Du, Yong Xu,
Qingwei
Lin,
Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang.
- Enhanced Fairness Testing via Generating Effective Initial Individual Discriminatory
Instances
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Minghua Ma, Zhao Tian, Max Hort, Federica Sarro, Hongyu Zhang, Qingwei Lin,
Dongmei Zhang.
- DockerMock: Pre-Build Detection of Dockerfile Faults through Mocking Instruction
Execution
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Mingjie Li, Xiaoying Bai, Minghua Ma, Dan Pei.
Services
- Organizer
- 2021: AIOps Challenge Technical Chair
- PC Member
- 2025: FSE, FSE Industry, ASE, ISSRE, KDD, COLM
- 2024: FSE Industry, ISSRE, APSEC, KDD, TheWebConf, MILETS
- 2023: ASE, KDD, MILETS
- Journal Reviewer