My research interests include program analysis, software engineering and distributed/parallel systems. I focus on designing new techniques to improve software reliability and validating such techniques on real-world systems, including machine learning, big data, distributed systems and spreadsheets.

I received my Ph.D. (2015) and M.E. (2009) from Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), and B.E. (2006) from Wuhan University.

I was a research assistant (2009–2015) and assistant professor (2015–2016) at ISCAS.  Since Aug 2016, I am an associate professor at ISCAS.

I was a visiting scholar at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2013) and The Ohio State University (2014). 

• Characterizing and Detecting Bugs in WeChat Mini-Programs
  Tao Wang, Qingxin Xu, Xiaoning Chang, Wensheng Dou, Jiaxin Zhu, Jinhui Xie, Yuetang Deng, Jianbo Yang, Jiaheng Yang, Jun Wei, Tao Huang
  44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022, CCF A).
• Knowledge-Based Environment Dependency Inference for Python Programs
  Hongjie Ye, Wei Chen, Wensheng Dou, Guoquan Wu, Jun Wei
  44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022, CCF A).

• Race Detection for Event-Driven Node.js Applications
  Xiaocning Chang, Wensheng Dou, Jun Wei, Tao Huang, Jinhui Xie, Yuetang Deng, Jianbo Yang, Jiaheng Yang
  36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021, CCF A).

• Systemizing Interprocedural Static Analysis of Large-Scale Systems Code with Graspan
  Zhiqiang Zuo, Kai Wang, Aftab Hussain, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Yiyu Zhang, Shenming Lu, Wensheng Dou, Linzhang Wang, Xuandong Li, Chenxi Wang, Guoqing Harry Xu
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS 2021, CCF A).

• Semantic Table Structure Identification in Spreadsheets
  Yakun Zhang, Xiao Lv, Haoyu Dong, Wensheng Dou, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang, Jun Wei, Dan Ye
  30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2021, CCF A).

• The Performance of Selfish Mining in GHOST
  Qing Xia, Wensheng Dou, Fengjun Zhang, Geng Liang
  20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2021).
• The Impact Analysis of Multiple Miners and Propagation Delay on Selfish Mining
  Qing Xia, Wensheng Dou, Tong Xi, Jing Zeng, Fengjun Zhang, Jun Wei, Geng Liang
  45th IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2021).

• DeepCon: Contribution Coverage Testing for Deep Learning Systems
  Zhiyang Zhou, Wensheng Dou, Jie Liu, Chenxin Zhang, Jun Wei, Dan Ye
  28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2021, CCF B).
• Survey on Blockchain Consensus Protocol (区块链共识协议综述)
  Qing Xia, Wensheng Dou, Kaiwen Guo, Geng Liang, Chun Zuo, Fengjun Zhang
  Journal of Software (软件学报), 2021.
• CoFI: Consistency-Guided Fault Injection for Cloud Systems
  Haicheng Chen, Wensheng Dou, Dong Wang, Feng Qin
  35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020, CCF A).
• Learning to Detect Table Clones in Spreadsheets
  Yakun Zhang, Wensheng Dou, Jiaxin Zhu, Liang Xu, Zhiyong Zhou, Jun Wei, Dan Ye, Bo Yang
  29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020, CCF A).
• Detecting Cache-Related Bugs in Spark Applications
  Hui Li, Dong Wang, Tianze Huang, Yu Gao, Wensheng Dou, Lijie Xu, Wei Wang, Jun Wei, Hua Zhong
  29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020, CCF A)
  
• DistStream: An Order-Aware Distributed Framework for Online-Offline Stream Clustering Algorithms
  Lijie Xu, Xingtong Ye, Kai Kang, Tian Guo, Wensheng Dou, Wei Wang, Jun Wei
  40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020, CCF B).
• Understanding Exception-Related Bugs in Large-Scale Cloud Systems 
  Haicheng Chen, Wensheng Dou, Yanyan Jiang, Feng Qin 
  34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019, CCF A).
• An Experimental Evaluation of Garbage Collectors on Big Data Applications 
  Lijie Xu, Tian Guo, Wensheng Dou, Wei Wang, Jun Wei 
  45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2019, CCF A).
• Detecting Atomicity Violations for Event-Driven Node.js Applications 
  Xiaoning Chang, Wensheng Dou, Yu Gao, Jie Wang, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019, CCF A).

• Recent Progress in Program Analysis (程序分析研究进展)
  Jian Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jifeng Xuan, Yingfei Xiong, Qianxiang Wang, Bin Liang, Lian Li, Wensheng Dou, Zhenbang Chen, Liqian Chen, Yan Cai
  Journal of Software (软件学报), 2019.
• An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
  Yu Gao, Wensheng Dou, Feng Qin, Chushu Gao, Dong Wang, Jun Wei, Ruirui Huang, Li Zhou, Yongming Wu 
  26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018, CCF A). ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• How Are Spreadsheet Templates Used in Practice: A Case Study on Enron
  Liang Xu, Wensheng Dou, Jiaxin Zhu, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018 NIER).
• Expandable Group Identification in Spreadsheets
  Wensheng Dou, Shi Han, Liang Xu, Dongmei Zhang, Jun Wei 
  33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018, CCF A).
• Context-Based Event Trace Reduction in Client-Side JavaScript Applications 
  Jie Wang, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Yu Gao, Jun Wei 
  11th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST 2018).
• Detecting Faulty Empty Cells in Spreadsheets
  Liang Xu, Shuo Wang, Wensheng Dou, Bo Yang, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2018, CCF B).
• Rewriting High-Level Spreadsheet Structures into Higher-Order Functional Programs
  Florian Biermann, Wensheng Dou, Peter Sestoft 
  20th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2018).
• JSTrace: Fast Reproducing Web Application Errors
  Jie Wang, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei 
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS 2018, CCF B).
• Characterizing and Diagnosing Out of Memory Errors in MapReduce Applications
  Lijie Xu, Wensheng Dou, Feng Zhu, Chushu Gao, Jie Liu, Jun Wei 
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS 2018, CCF B).

• A Comprehensive Study on Real World Concurrency Bugs in Node.js
  Jie Wang, Wensheng Dou, Yu Gao, Chushu Gao, Feng Qin, Kang Yin, Jun Wei 
  32nd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017, CCF A).
• Mining API Type Specifications for JavaScript
  Shuai Wang, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2017).
• SpreadCluster: Recovering Versioned Spreadsheets through Similarity-Based Clustering
  Liang Xu, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Jie Wang, Jun Wei, Hua Zhong, Tao Huang 
  14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017).
• CACheck: Detecting and Repairing Cell Arrays in Spreadsheets
  Wensheng Dou, Chang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Jun Wei 
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2017, CCF A).

• Detecting Table Clones and Smells in Spreadsheets
  Wensheng Dou, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chushu Gao, Chang Xu, Liang Xu, Jun Wei 
  24th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2016, CCF A).
• VEnron: A Versioned Spreadsheet Corpus and Related Evolution Analysis
  Wensheng Dou, Liang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE SEIP 2016).

• Fast Reproducing Web Application Errors
  Jie Wang, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei 
  26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015, CCF B).
• Experience Report: A Characteristic Study on Out of Memory Errors in Distributed Data-Parallel Applications
  Lijie Xu, Wensheng Dou, Feng Zhu, Chushu Gao, Jie Liu, Hua Zhong, Jun Wei 
  26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015, CCF B).
• Discovering User-Defined Event Handlers in Presence of JavaScript Libraries
  Shuai Wang, Wensheng Dou, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  22nd Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2015).
• Towards Web Application Mobilization via Efficient Web Control Extraction
  Shuai Wang, Wensheng Dou, Guoquan Wu, Jie Wang, Chushu Gao, Jun Wei, Tao Huang 
  7th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2015).

• Is Spreadsheet Ambiguity Harmful? Detecting and Repairing Spreadsheet Smells due to Ambiguous Computation
  Wensheng Dou, Shing-Chi Cheung, Jun Wei 
  36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014, CCF A).

(1) ESEC/FSE 2018 Distinguished Paper Award (2018)

(2) Memeber of Youth Innovation Promotion Association at Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)

(3) MSRA Visiting Young Faculty Program (StarTrack 2017)

(4) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of China Computer Federation (CCF 2016)

(5) Outstanding Graduate of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS 2015)