Publications
The Multifaceted Nature of Mentoring in OSS: Strategies, Qualities, and Ideal Outcomes
Jan 2025
- Zixuan Feng, Igor Steinmacher, Marco Gerosa, Tyler Menezes, Alexander Serebrenik, Reed Milewicz, Anita Sarma
- The 18th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2025)
Investigating the Impact of Interpersonal Challenges on Feeling Welcome in OSS
Nov 2024
- Bianca Trinkenreich, Zixuan Feng, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Marco Gerosa, Anita Sarma, Igor Steinmacher
- The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025)
Guiding the way: A systematic literature review on mentoring practices in open source software projects
April 2024
- Zixuan Feng, Katie Kimura, Bianca Trinkenreich, Anita Sarma, Igor Steinmacher
- Information and Software Technology
How to Support ML End-User Programmers through a Conversational Agent
14 - 20 April 2024
- Emily Arteaga Garcia, João Felipe Pimentel, Zixuan Feng, Marco Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma
- The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024)
- Conference
- First round acceptance rate: 6%
Promoting and Studying Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the ASF Community (Full report)
September 2023
- Zixuan Feng
- Apache Software Foundation Reports and Statements
- Read blog here
The State of Survival in OSS: the Impact of Diversity
3 - 9 December 2023
- Zixuan Feng
- ESEC/FSE 2023 in San Francisco (ESEC/FSE 2023)
- Conference
OSS Unsung Heroes: Crafting Productive Communities invisibly
2 - 6 April 2023
- Zixuan Feng
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2023)
- Conference
The State of Diversity and Inclusion in Apache: A Pulse Check
14 - 15 May 2023
- Zixuan Feng, Mariam Guizani, Marco Gerosa, Anita Sarma
- The 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2023)
- Conference
- Acceptance rate: 30%
A Case Study of Implicit Mentoring, its Prevalence, and Impact in Apache
Mon 14 - Fri 18 November 2022
- Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed
- ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
- Conference
- Acceptance rate: 22%
Implicit Mentoring: The Unacknowledged Developer Efforts in Open Source
Feb 23 2022
- Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed
Tech Report: Rumble Strip Design Analysis to Contribute to Low Exterior Noise Using Finite Element Modeling
Aug 2022
- Zixuan Feng is listed as the first author of the paper in Appendix A and as the second author of the paper in Appendix B.
TALK
The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America 2024
Navigating the Growing Diversity Challenges in OSS - Zixuan Feng, Oregon State University & Diane Mueller, Bitergia
The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America 2024
Beyond Code: Recognizing the Crucial Role of 'Glue Work' in Open Source - Zixuan Feng, Oregon State University & Julia Furst, Veeam
Student Research Competition (SRC) (FSE 2023)
The State of Survival in OSS: The Impact of Diversity
Linux Plumber Conference (Linux 2023)
OSS Empowering Engagement: Introducing a Dynamic Dashboard for Proactive Retention Strategies
Graduate Consortium (VL/HCC 2024)
OSS Unsung Heroes: Crafting Productive Communities invisibly
The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference (FOSSY 2023)
From Conversations to Action: Creating a healthy, diverse open source community
Research talk (ESEC/FSE 2022)
A Case Study of Implicit Mentoring, its Prevalence, and Impact in Apache (ESEC/FSE 2022)
SERVICE & Experience
Research Intern
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2024 Summer
Proceeding service
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2024): Proceedings Chair
Paper Reviewer
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
Paper Sub-reviewer
ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024)
Graduate Research Assistant
Summer 2021 - Present
My research focuses on using empirical investigations to gain knowledge of how software developers collaborate. My goal is to design and strategy to build software methodologies that will assist software engineers and teams in becoming more productive.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Winter 2019 - Summer 2021
- CS 453/553 Scientific Visualization
- CS 444/544 Operating System II
- CS 458 Information Visualization
- ST 201 Principles of Statistics
Teaching Experience:
Graduate Research Assistant
Summer 2018 - Fall 2020
The project was funded by Oregon Department of Transportation
- Data Processing, Analysis, Visualization (Python, Bash, C++, OpenGL, Gephi)
- Numerical Modeling (Finite Element Analysis, ABAQUS)
- Statistical Modeling (R programming, MATLAB)
Technical Report Submission: see publications
Mentor (High School Students)
Saturday Academy's Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering Program in affiliation with University of Portland.
Summer 2021
Mathematics and Computer Science Tutor
Fall 2017 - Fall 2018
Oregon State University, INTO Learning Center
- Mathematics Tutor
- GRE Guantitative Tutor
- Academic Writing Tutor
- Registered TOFEL TEST Proctor