Qihao Zhu

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 821 citations indexed

About

Qihao Zhu is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Qihao Zhu has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 821 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Information Systems, 13 papers in Software and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Qihao Zhu's work include Software Engineering Research (14 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (12 papers) and Design Education and Practice (6 papers). Qihao Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (14 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (12 papers) and Design Education and Practice (6 papers). Qihao Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Qihao Zhu's co-authors include Zeyu Sun, Yingfei Xiong, Jianxi Luo, Lu Zhang, Lili Mou, Wenjie Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Lu Zhang, Dan Hao and Yiling Lou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Food Hydrocolloids and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Qihao Zhu

29 papers receiving 811 citations

Hit Papers

A syntax-guided edit decoder for neural program repair 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A syntax-guided edit decoder for neural program repair
    2021 140 citations Qihao Zhu, Zeyu Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qihao Zhu China 14 422 326 238 152 88 33 821
Boyuan Chen Canada 14 260 0.6× 119 0.4× 165 0.7× 240 1.6× 30 0.3× 29 584
Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal Pakistan 16 429 1.0× 623 1.9× 190 0.8× 156 1.0× 50 0.6× 39 825
Mu Zhang China 15 435 1.0× 319 1.0× 264 1.1× 471 3.1× 703 8.0× 71 1.2k
Qianxiang Wang China 16 634 1.5× 297 0.9× 293 1.2× 300 2.0× 101 1.1× 68 847
Xiaoxing Ma China 20 673 1.6× 503 1.5× 532 2.2× 641 4.2× 303 3.4× 163 1.5k
Andrea Corradini Italy 17 170 0.4× 314 1.0× 594 2.5× 134 0.9× 42 0.5× 108 1.1k
Beijun Shen China 16 580 1.4× 261 0.8× 243 1.0× 131 0.9× 75 0.9× 97 755
Anand Kumar United States 11 81 0.2× 65 0.2× 81 0.3× 162 1.1× 29 0.3× 55 504
S.J. Mellor United Kingdom 6 179 0.4× 125 0.4× 162 0.7× 55 0.4× 5 0.1× 11 445
Anthony Ventresque Ireland 14 326 0.8× 286 0.9× 207 0.9× 131 0.9× 59 0.7× 65 720

Countries citing papers authored by Qihao Zhu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qihao Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Qihao Zhu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Qihao Zhu. The network helps show where Qihao Zhu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qihao Zhu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qihao Zhu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qihao Zhu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Qihao Zhu. Qihao Zhu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Xiaoke, et al.. (2025). Widespread increasing negative vegetation sensitivity to phenology reshapes GPP dynamics in alpine grassland. Journal of Environmental Management. 392. 126680–126680.
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Directional Diffusion-Style Code Editing Pre-Training. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51(9). 2583–2600.
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Chen, Junjie, et al.. (2025). LEAM++: Learning for Selective Mutation Fault Construction. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(8). 1–41.
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Zhu, Qihao, et al.. (2024). An in-situ pH-sensitive wood-based intelligent label with high and stable responsiveness for indicating milk freshness. Industrial Crops and Products. 220. 119266–119266. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao, et al.. (2024). Synthesis-Based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration. 869–881. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Weijing, et al.. (2024). On the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Unit Test Generation. 1607–1619. 15 indexed citations
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Ning, Yuping, Ruoting Liu, Wenrui Chi, et al.. (2024). A chitosan derivative/phytic acid polyelectrolyte complex endowing polyvinyl alcohol film with high barrier, flame-retardant, and antibacterial effects. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 259(Pt 1). 129240–129240. 37 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao, Leah Chong, Maria C. Yang, & Jianxi Luo. (2024). Reading Users’ Minds from What They Say: An Investigation into LLM-based Empathic Mental Inference. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao & Jianxi Luo. (2023). Toward Artificial Empathy for Human-Centered Design: A Framework. 10 indexed citations
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Luo, Jianxi, et al.. (2023). Generative Pre-Trained Transformers for 15-Minute City Design. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 1. 595–604. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Yiqian, et al.. (2023). A Probabilistic Delta Debugging Approach for Abstract Syntax Trees. 763–773. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Ruoting, et al.. (2023). Capillary-Assisted Monitoring of Milk Freshness via a Porous Cellulose-Based Label with High pH Sensitivity. Foods. 12(9). 1857–1857. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao, Xinyu Zhang, & Jianxi Luo. (2022). Generative Pre-Trained Transformers for Biologically Inspired Design. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Junjie, et al.. (2022). Learning to Construct Better Mutation Faults. 1–13. 25 indexed citations
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Lou, Yiling, et al.. (2022). FIRA. 970–981. 38 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao & Jianxi Luo. (2022). Generative Transformers for Design Concept Generation. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 1–61. 49 indexed citations
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2022). Lyra: A Benchmark for Turducken-Style Code Generation. Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 4238–4244. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao, et al.. (2021). A syntax-guided edit decoder for neural program repair. 341–353. 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Qihao, et al.. (2020). OCoR. 883–894. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2020). TreeGen: A Tree-Based Transformer Architecture for Code Generation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34(5). 8984–8991. 110 indexed citations

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