Xiang Chen received the B.Sc. degree in the school of management from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 2002. Then he received his M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer software and theory from Nanjing University, China in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, China. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 papers in refereed journals or conferences, such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, IET Software, Software Quality Journal, Knowledge-based Systems, International Conference on Software Engineering, The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, International Conference Automated Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, International Conference on Program Comprehension, and International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. His research interests include software engineering, in particular software testing and maintenance, software repository mining, and empirical software engineering. He received ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper awards in ICSE 2021. He is the editorial board member of Information and Software Technology.