About me
Hi there👋 I am Zihan Fang (房梓晗). I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, guided by Dr. Yu Huang. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Information Management from Soochow University, and my Master's degree in Data Science from Vanderbilt University. My research focus on enhancing the sustainability of online programming platforms (such as GitHub and Stack Overflow) and understanding the cognitive dynamics of software development. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my work!
Publications
“Math Is a Pain!”: Understanding Challenges and Needs of the Machine Learning Community on Stack Overflow. CSCW 2024
Zihan Fang, Yu Huang
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A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention. FSE 2023
Zihan Fang, Madeline Endres, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford, Westley Weimer, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award [PDF]
Awards
- C. F. Chen Best Paper Award in Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
- Richard Bennett/Dorothy Danforth Compton Prize Scholarship at Vanderbilt University
- SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2023
- NSF Student Travel Award
Service
- SIGCSE TS 2025 - PC member (Posters)
- SIGCSE TS 2025 - PC member (Computing Education Research)
Experience
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, present
- M.S. in Data Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 2021-2023
- B.S. in Information Management, Soochow University, China, 2016-2020