Jincheng He

Research Interests

• Software Architecture — Architectural recovery, evolution, and sustainability of large-scale systems.
• Software Sustainability — Maintainability, performance, and dependency analysis across OSS.
• Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering — Applying LLMs to issue classification, traceability, and smell detection.
• Empirical Software Engineering — Mining software repositories and analyzing longitudinal project data.

Publications

1. 2020
   The Characteristics and Impact of Uncompilable Code Changes on Software Quality Evolution

   Jincheng He, Sitao Min, Kelechi Ogudu, Michael Shoga, Alex Polak, Iordanis Fostiropoulos, Barry Boehm, Pooyan Behnamghader

   2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)

   DOI BibTeX
2. 2025
   A Purpose-oriented Study on Open-source Software Commits and Their Impacts on Software Quality

   Jincheng He, Zhongheng He

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02232

   arXiv BibTeX
3. 2025
   Tracing Sustainability in ARchitectures (TSAR)

   Manuscript in progress

Teaching

• CSCI 510 — Software Management and Economics
• CSCI 561 — Foundations of AI
• CSCI 570 — Analysis of Algorithms
• CSCI 585 — Database Systems
• CSCI 577A — Software Engineering

Talks

• "Taxonomic Study on Commits and Relationship to Uncompilability" — Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering - COCOMO Forum (Nov 2019)
• "The Characteristics and Impact of Uncompilable Code Changes on Software Quality Evolution" — Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering - COCOMO Forum (Sep 2020)
• "Software Change Analysis from the Perspective of Software Architectural Design Decisions" — Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering - Annual Research Review (June 2023)

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