Minghui Zhou is a Distinguished Professor of Peking University Boya Program, and Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science, Peking University.
Her main research interests include open-source software development and ecosystem (open-source digital sociology), software data analytics, empirical software engineering, and intelligent system. She has published over 120 refereed papers in top international journals and conferences including TSE, TOSEM, ICSE, FSE, ASE and CSCW.
She and her collaborators invented novel concepts and fine metrics for global and open source software development, including developer fluency, long-term contributor, maintainer scalability, and open source co-opetition.
She developed tools that have been widely adopted by corporations and open source communities. The Mulan permissive software license (MulanPSL) that she developed has been adopted by over 300,000 open-source repositories, and the GFI-bot, LicenseHelper, and LibraryAdvisor have greatly helped open source governance on newcomer onboarding and software supply chain.
She has received three times ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards and has twice won the National Technology Invention Second Prize in China (rank 5th and 6th). In 2024 she won the First Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award (rank 1st). She is a recipient of the prestigious National Distinguished Youth Fund in China.
She constantly served the top tier software engineering international conferences ICSE, FSE, ASE etc al. She was the PC Co-Chair of ASE 2024, and serves on the Steering Committee of ASE since 2024. She is the editor of the prestigious journals TSE, EMSE and AUSE. She is Associate Director of the China Computer Federation (CCF) Open Source Development Committee (CCF ODTC).
More details see: https://minghuizhou.github.io/
