Haoyu Gao
About Me
I am currently a third-year PhD student at the University of Melbourne (started from Feb 2023). I am supervised by A/Prof Christoph Treude and Dr. Mansooreh Zahedi.
My research focuses on supporting developers in documentation maintenance and knowledge acquisition in both traditional and AI-based software systems. I am particular interested in using qualitative methods to empirically understand issues and phenomenons in the software ecosystems from the lens of both software artefacts and developers, as well as building automated pipelines using machine learning methods.
Before starting of my Ph.D, I obtained my Master’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and my Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied mathematics from Fuzhou University, China.
Publications
[TSE’25] H. Gao, C. Treude, and M. Zahedi. Adapting Installation Instructions in Rapidly Evolving Software Ecosystems: In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2025
[FSE’23] H. Gao, C. Treude, and M. Zahedi. Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs. In ESEC/FSE’23: Proceedings of the Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023.
[ESEM’24] H. Gao, M. Zahedi, C. Treude, S. Ronsenstock, and M. Cheong. Documenting Ethical Considerations in Open Source AI Models. In ESEM’24: 18th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2024.
[ICSME’25] P. Banyongrakkul, M. Zahedi, P. Thongtanunam, C. Treude, and H. Gao. From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers. In ICSME’25: 41st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
[ACL Findings’25] H. Lin, C. Liu, H. Gao, P. Thongtanunam, and C. Treude. CodeReviewQA: The Code Review Comprehension Assessment for Large Language Models. In Findings of ACL’25 : The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
CV
Please check my CV if you are interested.
Contact:
If you would like to collaborate, feel free to reach out by sending an email :)
Address: 700 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053, Victoria, Australia
Email: haoyug1@student.unimelb.edu.au