Publications
My research has been published in premier software engineering conferences and journals, including IEEE RE, ICSE, SANER, ESEM, IEEE IRI, and the Requirements Engineering journal. I have received multiple best paper awards and serve as a reviewer for top-tier venues in software engineering.
For the most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.
Conference & Workshop Papers
Cross-Cutting Security Analysis of LLM-Generated Code via Metamorphic Testing and Association Rule Mining
Zedong Peng, Chenggang Wang, Shangyue Zhu
2026 IEEE 27th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 129-134, 2026
Evaluating and Improving Pedagogical Fit in LLM-Based AI Tutors with the Pedagogical Suitability Index
Benjamin Barlog, Hudson Craig, Zedong Peng
2026 IEEE 27th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 86-91, 2026
Failure-Aware Enhancements for Large Language Model (LLM) Code Generation: An Empirical Study on Decision Framework
Jianru Shen, Zedong Peng, Lucy Owen
2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pp. 1-6, 2026
The AI Imitation Game: A Cognitive Comparison of Mimicry in Large Language Models
Victor Wen, Zedong Peng, Yusi Chen
2025 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 79-84, 2025
Advanced Vulnerability Scanning for Open Source Software to Minimize False Positives
Victor Wen, Zedong Peng
2024 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 156-157, 2024
Leveraging ChatGPT to Predict Requirements Testability with Differential In-Context Learning
Mahima Dahiya, Rashminder Gill, Nan Niu, Hemanth Gudaparthi, Zedong Peng
2024 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 170-175, 2024
What You See Is What You Test: Recommending Features from GUIs for Requirements-Based Testing
Zedong Peng, Juha Savolainen, Jianzhang Zhang, Nan Niu
2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 289-294, 2023
Resource-Centric Goal Model Slicing for Detecting Feature Interactions
Zedong Peng, Mahima Dahiya, Tessneem Khalil, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Yilong Yang
2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 58-63, 2023
Learning I/O Variables from Scientific Software's User Manuals
Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Sreelekhaa Nagamalli Santhoshkumar, Nan Niu, Upulee Kanewala
Computational Science–ICCS 2022: 22nd International Conference, pp. 503-516, 2022
Contextual Understanding and Improvement of Metamorphic Testing in Scientific Software Development
Zedong Peng, Upulee Kanewala, Nan Niu
Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pp. 1-6, 2021
Environment-Driven Abstraction Identification for Requirements-Based Testing
Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, Zhi Jin
2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE21), pp. 245-256, 2021
Co-AI: A Colab-Based Tool for Abstraction Identification
Zedong Peng, Nan Niu
2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pp. 420-421, 2021
Towards Norm Classification: An Initial Analysis of HIPAA Breaches
Vedarsh Shah, Zedong Peng, Ganesh Malla, Nan Niu
2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), pp. 415-420, 2021
I/O Associations in Scientific Software: A Study of SWMM
Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Nan Niu, Omar I. Abdul-Aziz
Computational Science–ICCS 2021: 21st International Conference, pp. 375-389, 2021
Semantic Frames for Classifying Temporal Requirements: An Exploratory Study
Aurek Chattopadhyay, Nan Niu, Zedong Peng, Jianzhang Zhang
4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE'21), 2021
Finding Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software
Xuanyi Lin, Zedong Peng, Nan Niu, Wentao Wang, Hui Liu
43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021), 2021
Unit Tests of Scientific Software: A Study on SWMM
Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Nan Niu
International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (SE4Science 2020), pp. 413-427, 2020
Correct Software by Design for Software-Defined Networking: A Preliminary Study
Liang Hao, Xin Sun, Lan Lin, Zedong Peng
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pp. 127-134, 2020
Journal Papers
Testing Software's Changing Features with Environment-Driven Abstraction Identification
Zedong Peng, Prachi Rathod, Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, Lin Shi, Zhi Jin
Requirements Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 405-427, 2022
Unit and Regression Tests of Scientific Software: A Study on SWMM
Zedong Peng, Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Nan Niu
Journal of Computational Science, Vol. 53, pp. 101347, 2021
Discovering Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software from User Forums
Xuanyi Lin, Michelle Simon, Zedong Peng, Nan Niu
Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2021
Preprints & Under Review
When Post-Anchor Metrics Fail: Stabilization Regimes in AI-Evidence Open-Source Projects
Hudson Craig, Benjamin Barlog, Chenggang Wang, Longwei Wang, Zedong Peng
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16979, 2026 (under review)
Advanced Vulnerability Scanning for Open Source Software: Detection and Mitigation of Log4j Vulnerabilities
Victor Wen, Zedong Peng
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00235, 2026 (under review)