Zhimin Zhao

Zhimin Zhao

Ph.D. candidate at Queen's University

Zhimin (Jimmy) Zhao is a PhD candidate in SAIL@Queen’s. He received his Master degree from CG@Penn and Bachelor degree from ISC@BIT.

🔎 His research focuses on LLMOps, MLOps, SE4AI, AI4SE, LLM4Code, etc.

P.S. My Chinese name is “赵志民” and my English name is “Zhimin (Jimmy) Zhao.”

Email: z DOT zhao AT queensu DOT ca

🔥 News

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📝 Publications

  •   TSE’25  On the Workflows and Smells of Leaderboard Operations (LBOps): An Exploratory Study of Foundation Model Leaderboards

    Zhimin Zhao, Abdul Ali Bangash, Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2025.

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  •   FORGE’25  SE Arena: An Interactive Platform for Evaluating Foundation Models in Software Engineering

    Zhimin Zhao

    International Workshop on the Foundation Model for Software Engineering, Ottawa, April 2025.

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  •   EMSE’24  An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management

    Zhimin Zhao, Yihao Chen, Abdul Ali Bangash, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan

    Empirical Software Engineering, 2024.

    [paper] [code]

🎖 Honors and Awards

💬 Service

Journal

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Conference

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💻 Internships

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📖 Educations

  • 2021 - (now), Ph.D. in Computer Science, Queen’s University, Canada.
  • 2014 - 2016, M.S. in Computer Graphics and Game Technology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  • 2010 - 2014, B.Eng. in Information Countermeasure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.

📐 Teaching

Teaching & Invited Talks @Queen’s

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📊 Experience