Research Assistant

 Dr Zhi Li

Contact Details

E-mail: z.li@epsam.keele.ac.uk
Phone: 01782 733076
Room: CR109

Background

I am a post-doctoral research assistant for the EPIC (Evidence-based Practices Informing Computing) project, after successful completion, submission and defence of my PhD thesis in the Computing Department at The Open University. My PhD research was funded by a three-year research studentship from The Open University. I received my BSc from Fudan University in 1991 and MSc from the University of York in 2004. I had gained more than 10 years of industry work experience before entering academia in the University of Liverpool in 2001.

My current main research interest is evidence-based software engineering, with a focus on investigating the role SLR (Systematic Literature Review) plays in software engineering. My previous research topic (PhD) was about problem-oriented software engineering, with a focus on foundational/transformational approaches to requirements engineering. My MSc research was about web interfaces that allow users to prescribe differential levels of QoS (Quality of Service). I am a professional member of the ACM, affiliate member of IEEE (i.e., IEEE Computer Society) and was a student member of BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group. I helped the teaching of a course module by providing a guest presentation on evaluating an IEEE jounal paper using preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering.

Research Interests

I belong to theSoftware Engineering Research Group, School of Computing and Mathematics.

Key Publications

P. Brereton, B. Kitchenham, D. Budgen and Z. Li, Using a protocol template for case study planning (to appear), 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'08), Bari, Italy, June 2008.

Z. Li, Progressing problems from requirements to specifications in problem frames, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advances and Applications of Problem Frames, pages 53-59, ICSE'08, ACM Press, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.

L. Rapanotti, J. G. Hall and Z. Li, Deriving specifications from requirements through problem reduction, Journal of IEE Proceedings - Software, Volume 153, issue 5, pages 183-198, October 2006.

Z. Li, J. G. Hall and L. Rapanotti, From requirements to specifications: a formal approach, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Advances and Applications of Problem Frames, pages 65-70, ICSE'06, ACM Press, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

Z. Li, J. G. Hall and L. Rapanotti, Reasoning about decomposing and recomposing Problem Frames developments: a case study, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances and Applications of Problem Frames, pages 49-53, ICSE'04, IEEE CS Press, Edinburgh, UK, May 2004.

Dr S. Annenkov

Contact Details

E-mail: s.annenkov@maths.keele.ac.uk

Dr Jim Austin

Contact Details

E-mail: j.c.austin@mac03.keele.ac.uk