Shenglin Zhang

Shenglin Zhang (张圣林)

Shenglin Zhang is a Professor in the College of Software at Nankai University, where he also serves as Vice Dean, overseeing research, discipline development, and digital transformation. He is a Ph.D. and Master’s advisor and a Research Fellow at the Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation (Advanced Computing and Critical Software). He is a recipient of Nankai University’s Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program.

His research interests lie in AIOps for the resilience of critical information infrastructure, with a particular focus on anomaly detection, fault localization, root cause analysis, and failure prediction. He has published more than 40 papers as the first author or sole corresponding author in CCF Category A conferences and journals. His work has been cited more than 4,700 times according to Google Scholar. He has filed 30 Chinese invention patents, 13 of which have been granted. He has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and more than 30 industry-sponsored research projects in collaboration with Huawei, ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Ant Group, ZTE, and other leading technology companies.

Professor Zhang received the Industry Track Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2026 as the sole recipient of the award that year. He has also received the Best Paper Award at ISSRE on three occasions, holding the record for the highest number of individual Best Paper Awards in the conference’s 35-year history. His additional honors include the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics (third contributor), the First Prize of the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, Huawei’s Best Technical Collaboration Professor Award, Nankai University’s Excellent Mentor Award, and the Outstanding Contribution Award for University–Industry Collaboration from Kylin Software. His students have received four Outstanding Master’s Thesis Awards and one Outstanding Graduate Award from Nankai University.

Professor Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2017 and his B.Eng. in Network Engineering from Xidian University in 2012. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also worked as an intern in the Operations Department at Baidu from 2014 to 2017 and was a Visiting Scholar at Alibaba from 2018 to 2019.

Together with Professor Dan Pei of Tsinghua University, Professor Zhang co-founded the CCF AIOps Challenge (https://competition.aiops.cn/) and served as Program Chair for both its inaugural edition (2018) and sixth edition (2023). Over eight consecutive years, the competition has grown into one of the three flagship annual activities of the CCF Technical Committee on Internet, attracting more than 2,500 teams and over 6,000 participants. It has played a significant role in advancing AIOps education, fostering academic exchange, and promoting technological innovation in China, while providing an internationally recognized platform for researchers and practitioners.

Building on this effort, Professor Zhang and Professor Pei also co-founded the CCF OpenAIOps Community (https://www.aiops.cn/), an open collaborative platform dedicated to advancing open-source research and software development in AIOps. The community currently provides 29 open datasets, 28 open-source models, and five benchmark leaderboards. With more than 1.4 million cumulative visits from users across over 100 countries and regions, it has become one of the world’s most influential academic communities in the field of AIOps.

Professor Zhang has served on the Program Committees of more than 20 CCF Category A and B international conferences. He was the Artifact Evaluation Track Chair of ISSRE 2024. He currently serves as a Standing Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Internet, Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the CCF China Software Conference 2026, Co-Chair of the Competition Committee for the CCF China Network Conference 2025, and Executive Committee Member of both the CCF Technical Committee on Software Engineering and the CCF Technical Committee on Services Computing. He previously served as Chair of the Publicity Committee for the CCF China Network Conference 2025 and Vice Chair of the Tianjin Chapter of the CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum (YOCSEF) from 2023 to 2024.

Research Interests

  • Failure detection, diagnosis, and prediction for service/network management
  • Resource scheduling for cloud-native scenario

Professional Activities

 

  • Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair of ISSRE 2024
  • TPC member of FSE 2025 industry track
  • Senior Area Chair of KDD 2026
  • TPC member of KDD 2025 ADS track
  • TPC member of CIKM 2025
  • TPC member of WSDM 2023/2024/2025
  • TPC member of IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2022/2023
  • TPC member of ICNP 2022/2023
  • TPC member of WWW 2022
  • TPC member of IEEE ISSRE 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025
  • TPC member of ICA3PP 2023
  • TPC member of PRICAI 2023
  • IEEE member
  • ACM member
  • Reviewer of JSAC/TDSC/IoTJ/ASUR/TNSM/JCST
  • TPC member of HDR-Nets 2019/2020
  • TPC member of AIOps Workshop 2020

Courses

Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2026 Industry Track Distinguished Paper Award, ACM FSE
  • 2024 Best Industry Paper Award, IEEE ISSRE
  • 2023 Best Research Paper Award, IEEE ISSRE
  • 2018 Best Research Paper Award, IEEE ISSRE

Invited Talks

  • Failure Diagnosis for Large-Scale Cloud Services, Academic Saloon on AIOPS 2023, Beilin, Germany, 05/23/2023
  • Failure Detection, Diagnosis, and Prediction for Large-Scale Cloud Services, Asia Pacific Advanced Network, 03/09/2023, online
  • Failure Detection, Diagnosis, and Prediction for Large-Scale Cloud Services, MS-AIOps workshop (co-located with ISSRE 2021), 10/28/2021, Wuhan, China

Publications

Selected publications can be found here.

Media Links

Contacts

  • Email: zhangsl at nankai.edu.cn

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