معرفی
Liping Zhao is a Senior Lecturer in Information Management. His expertise spans Software Engineering (SE), Requirements Engineering (RE), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). He holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Leeds. He is a founding member of the Asian Pacific Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs and led the UK’s first multi-disciplinary service science network (2007–2010).
He has received IBM Faculty Awards (2004, 2005, 2008) and a Best Tool Demo Award for TRAM (Transforming Textual Requirements into Analysis Models). He serves as an Associate Editor for Springer’s Requirements Engineering and Wiley’s Expert Systems, and guest-edited special issues on topics like Knowledge Intensive Service Systems and Problem Orientation.
His research focuses on applying NLP/ML to software engineering tasks, blockchain systems, and service-oriented computing. Key contributions include a theory of pattern-based software design and datasets like FN-REQ (frame-annotated requirements) and TRAM. His work addresses challenges in requirements classification, blockchain architectures, and business problem validation through ML.
Recent projects include process mining for blockchain applications, hierarchical classification of software requirements, and developing taxonomies for blockchain systems. His datasets and tools are publicly available via Zenodo and Mendeley, supporting reproducible research and industry collaboration.
