Minghui Zhou is a professor in School of Computer Science, Peking University. She obtained her B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. from National University of Defense Technology in 1995, 1999 and 2002 respectively. Her research interests include empirical software engineering, software measurement, mining software repositories and software digital archeology.
Prof. Zhou has published more than 50 research papers, and many of them are published in top-tier conferences and journals, such as ICSE, FSE, TSE, and TOSEM. She received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in (FSE) 2010, and COMPASAC Best Paper Award in 2012. One paper is the front page paper of TOSEM (2016). She has served in the Technical Program Committee of various major conferences including ICSE, FSE, MSR and ESEM, and as Demo Co-Chair of FSE 2014 and PC Co-Chair of Internetware 2014. She also serves as reviewer for several Journals such as TSE, JSS and CSUR. She co-organizes a Shanon meeting (the only Dagstuhl-like Seminar in Asia) in 2017. She has been serving on the OW2 technical committee and board committee since 2009. She served as the chief consultant for OW2 (open source consortium) president in 2013. She has been invited as the external expert reviewer by Siemens Research since 2014. She was awarded MOE New Century Excellent Talents (2012), CVIC Software Talent Award (2015), and received National Technology Invention Second Prize twice (in 2008 and 2015 respectively).
Prof. Zhou has acquired peer-reviewed research funding and industry funding for over 10 million RMB. As PI, she won the first key project of the Natural Science Foundation of China that targets data-driven software engineering. As sub-PI, she participates in the first national funding in China (973) to investigate open source ecosystems.
