Nan Niu

About

Nan Niu is a Professor & RF-SMART and Morales Family Director at University of North Florida's School of Computing. His current research interests focus on requirements engineering in machine learning, continuous deployment, and model-driven contexts. He is also investigating practical and automated ways to manage software traceability and to test scientific software. His earlier work focused on the intersection of software engineering and human-information interaction, with an emphasis on enabling principled ways to improve developer's productivity in carrying out daily activities like refactoring and reuse. His work has won a most influential paper award and four best paper awards. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

Work

University of North Florida
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Professor and Director

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University of Cincinnati
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Associate Professor

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University of Cincinnati
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Assistant Professor

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Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor

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Lenovo
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Software Developer

China

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Education

University of Toronto
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Ph.D.

University of Alberta
Canada

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M.Sc.

Beijing Institute of Technology
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B.Eng.

Publications

POS Tagging on Code Identifiers: How Far Are We?

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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

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An Automated Approach to Discovering Software Refactorings by Comparing Successive Versions

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Mining user privacy concern topics from app reviews

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Journal of Systems and Software

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An Empirical Study on Common Sense-Violating Bugs in Mobile Apps

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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

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BugBuilder: An Automated Approach to Building Bug Repository

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Deep Learning Based Feature Envy Detection Boosted by Real-World Examples

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conference-paper

Testing software’s changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification

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Requirements Engineering

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Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images

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Journal of Systems and Software

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Scientific Software Testing Goes Serverless: Creating and Invoking Metamorphic Functions

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IEEE Software

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XAI tools in the public sector: a case study on predicting combined sewer overflows

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Unit and regression tests of scientific software: A study on SWMM

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Journal of Computational Science

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Discovering Metamorphic Relations for Scientific Software From User Forums

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Computing in Science & Engineering

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A first look at developers’ live chat on Gitter

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conference-paper

Requirements Engineering in the Days of Artificial Intelligence

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IEEE Software

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Safety Patterns for SysML: What Does OMG Specify?

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book-chapter

Complementarity in Requirements Tracing

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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

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In-Place Traceability for Automated Production Systems: A Survey of PLC and SysML Tools

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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

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Corrections to “Requirements Socio-Technical Graphs for Managing Practitioners’ Traceability Questions”

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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

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Special issue on just-in-time requirements engineering for software integration

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Journal of Industrial Information Integration

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Automatically Tracing Dependability Requirements via Term-Based Relevance Feedback

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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

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Requirements Socio-Technical Graphs for Managing Practitioners’ Traceability Questions

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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

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Advancing viewpoint merging in requirements engineering: a theoretical replication and explanatory study

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Requirements Engineering

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Optimal Group Size for Software Change Tasks: A Social Information Foraging Perspective

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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

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Visual Requirements Analytics: A Framework and Case Study

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Requirements Engineering

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Traceability-Enabled Refactoring for Managing Just-in-Time Requirements

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conference-paper

A Systems Approach to Product Line Requirements Reuse

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IEEE Systems Journal

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Analysis of Architecturally Significant Requirements for Enterprise Systems

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IEEE Systems Journal

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Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability through Refactoring

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Requirements Engineering

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Automated Support for Combinational Creativity in Requirements Engineering

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conference-paper

Long-Term Product Line Sustainability through Planned Staged Investments

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IEEE Software

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Supporting Requirements Traceability through Refactoring

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conference-paper

Departures from Optimality: Understanding Human Analyst's Information Foraging in Assisted Requirements Tracing

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conference-paper

Enterprise Information Systems Architecture -- Analysis and Evaluation

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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

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Keeping Requirements on Track via Visual Analytics

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conference-paper

Enhancing Candidate Link Generation for Requirements Tracing: The Cluster Hypothesis Revisited

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conference-paper

Information Foraging as a Foundation for Code Navigation

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conference-paper

Extracting and Modeling Product Line Functional Requirements

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conference-paper

So, You Think You Know Others' Goals? A Repertory Grid Study

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IEEE Software

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