Title
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education
PhD, Computer Science, 2006
University of Arizona
MS, Computer Science, 2000
University of Sci. & Tech. of China
BS, Computer Science, 1998
University of Sci. & Tech. of China
Research Areas
program profiling. In particular, he has designed efficient and effective dynamic slicing techniques
which have a lot of applications in debugging runtime errors, intrusion detection, and preventing
software piracy. He has designed architectural support for protecting sensitive data in symmetric
shared memory processors. He has also conducted research on program tracing and profiling, which
includes novel representations and creative compression techniques. Zhang is interested in program
analysis, both dynamic and static, and their applications in software engineering and security
related issues.
Notable Affiliations
Zhang is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Publications
X. Zhang, N. Gupta, and R. Gupta, "Pruning Dynamic Slices With Confidence", ACM SIGPLAN
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2006.
X. Zhang and R. Gupta, "Whole Execution Traces and their Applications", ACM Transactions on
Architecture and Code Optimization, 2005.
X. Zhang and R. Gupta, "Matching Execution Histories of Program Versions", Conference and 13th
ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2005.
