Zhang's Academic & Professional Portfolio

Personal Portfolio

Dr. Weixing Zhang

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany and under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anne Koziolek. Before that, I was doing my PhD at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Strüber, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Regina Hebig, and Dr. Jan-Philipp Steghöfer. And I received my Ph.D. degree in 2025 from University of Gothenburg.

My research interests include SE, MDE and DSL, Empirical SE, AI4SE. And I also have a strong background in software development and project management in industry. I worked in industry for over 7 years before starting my academic career.

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I've been the target of defamation since the beginning of 2025. A cybercriminal has been continuously defaming me. For details, please refer to "Important Notice" tab on this page.

Dr. Weixing Zhang

weixing.zhang@kit.edu

"敬天愛⼈。 ——稻盛和夫（⽇本）"

News & Updates

2026/03/17: Paper "Round-trip Engineering for Tactical DDD: A Constraint-Based Vision for the Masses" is accepted by FSE'26!
2025/12/09: Provided a guest lecture "Software Repository Mining in Empirical Software Engineering" for the course "Empirical Software Engineering" at KIT.
2025/10/15: Successfully defended my Doctoral dissertation at the University of Gothenburg.
2025/10/01: Joined Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as a Post-Doctoral Researcher.
2025/06/10: Presented on the First Large Language Models for Software Engineering Workshop (LLM4SE 2025).
2024/08/29: Presented on the 50th Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2024).
2023/11/29: Passed the Licentiate thesis defense.
2023/10/23: Presented on 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023)
2023/02/20: Presented on 11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2023)
2020/09/01: Joined the CSE department at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Gothenburg a Ph.D. student.

Services

Reviewer for:

The special issue "Software Language Engineering" of Journal of Systems and Software
The journal of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Conference Committee Member:

Artifact Evaluation Committee Member, [European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2026]
Program Committee Member, [The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE), 2026]

Education

2020 - 2025

Ph.D. in Software Engineering

University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Dissertation: Evolution of Textual Domain-Specific Languages in the Context of Model-Driven Engineering

2010 - 2013

Master in Automation

Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Work Experience

2025 - Present

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Research on Model-Driven Engineering.

2020 - 2025

Teaching Assistant & Doctoral Researcher

Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lab sessions, Supervision, Lectures.
(Please see the "Teaching" section.)

2017 - 2019

Project Manager & Software Team Leader

Focus & Fusion Healthcare, Hangzhou, China

Programming, Software R&D Team management,Complex Problem Solving, TUV audit.
Interdisciplinary Project Management.

2012 - 2017

Software Engineer

UniTTec Co,. Ltd., Hangzhou, China

Embedded Middleware & Application Development.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2026, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Course: Programming

Role: Assessor. Participated in the grading of student programs.
Spring 2026, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Course: Natural Language Processing & Software Engineering

Role: Assessor. Participated in the assessment of student oral exams.
Fall 2025, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Course: Empirical Software Engineering

Role: Guest Lectuer. Provided a guest lecture "Software Repository Mining in Empirical Software Engineering.".
Fall 2024, Beijing Jiaotong University

Role: Guest Lectuer. Provided a guest lecture "Model-Driven Engineering in Railway Signaling Systems.".
Fall 2024, University of Gothenburg

Course: Software Engineering for Data-Intensive AI Applications

Role: Lectuer. Provided part of the lectures in the whole course.

This project course addresses issues relevant for software engineering with respect to systems that use artificial intelligence techniques such as machine learning. The course addresses how software systems need to be developed, structured, and deployed in order to be able to achieve the performance required for realistic applications.
Spring 2024, University of Gothenburg

Course: Software Analysis and Design

Role: Leader of the TA group, Grader. Responsibilities included TA management, grading.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with concepts, methods, and tools for object oriented analysis and design of software systems, with emphasis on methods applied in large product development projects. The course introduces common design principles and patterns that support the development of maintainable, reusable and extensible software. The course gives an introduction to UML. Analysis- and design models are expressed using UML models such as use case diagrams, class diagram, sequence diagrams, and state diagrams. Furthermore, techniques and guidelines are introduced for analysis of software domain and requirements.
Fall 2023, University of Gothenburg

Course: Software evolution project

Role: Teaching Assistant. Focused on Python implementation, technical support, and student mangement.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with situations, activities, and techniques typical for software evolution, such as adding a new feature, refactoring, automating variability or testing, improving performance, re-balancing non-functional requirements, and so on.
Fall 2022, University of Gothenburg

Course: Software Architecture

Role: Teaching Assistant, Grader. Responsibilities included lab sessions, grading student course papers.

The aim of this course is to equip students with basic knowledge and skills about software architecture design and its role in the development and maintenance of software systems.
Spring 2021 and Spring 2022, University of Gothenburg

Course: Software Language Engineering for Domain-Specific Languages

Role: Teaching Assistant, Grader. Responsibilities included group management, leading weekly lab sessions for multiple groups of students, and grading student projects.

This course teaches engineering skills of domain-specific languages (DSLs) based on Eclipse and Xtext. We developed DSLs for a variety of domains, including robotics, 3d printing, mobile apps, mind mapping, systems software (e.g., Linux kernel).
Fall 2020, University of Gothenburg

Course: Team-Programming

Role: Teaching Assistant. Responsibilities included group management, leading weekly lab sessions for multiple groups of students, and grading student projects.

The purpose of this course is to give the students an introduction to the project management area and the tools and techniques used to manage software development projects.

Grants and Awards

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2022 SoSyM-First Paper Award

Awarded October 2022

Selected Projects

BUMBLE

Researcher

The ITEA project BUMBLE (Blended Modelling for Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering) has created a system and software development framework based on textual and graphical modelling notations/languages, providing automatic generation and management of fully-fledged blended modelling environments from arbitrary domain-specific modelling languages (DSMLs). In this project, I developed a textual concrete syntax with a corresponding editor for EAST-ADL. [More Information]

Important Notice

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