David Lo

31.7k citations
606 papers · 19.8k · 15 hit papers · h-index 73

Impact in

  • Software top 0.01%
    • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
    • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
    • Software Engineering Research
    • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
    • Web Data Mining and Analysis

Papers in

    • Software Engineering Research 435
    • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices 69
    • Web Data Mining and Analysis 53
    • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques 210
    • Software Reliability and Analysis Research 163

David Lo

575 papers receiving 19.4k citations

David Lo's Hit Papers

LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road Ahead 2025 · 37 citations
370+5+10Years since publication100200300400

Peers

David Lo
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  • Software 8.7k
  • Information Systems 16.1k
  • Signal Processing 3.5k
  • Computer Science Applications 1.6k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 5.0k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Lo, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities
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2019451
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Deep code comment generation
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2018397
3
Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
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2024339
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Where should the bugs be fixed? More accurate information retrieval-based bug localization based on bug reports
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2012337
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Where should the bugs be fixed? - more accurate information retrieval-based bug localization based on bug reports
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2012294
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A discriminative model approach for accurate duplicate bug report retrieval
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2010268
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Towards more accurate retrieval of duplicate bug reports
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2011254
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Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction
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2015241
9
HYDRA: Massively Compositional Model for Cross-Project Defect Prediction
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2016234
10
History Driven Program Repair
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2016228
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Practitioners' expectations on automated fault localization
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2016227
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Deep code comment generation with hybrid lexical and syntactical information
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2019202
13 2017199
14 2012181
15 2018169
16 2017168
17 2018168
18 2014155
19 2020148
20 2017143

About David Lo

David Lo is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Signal Processing, having authored 606 papers that have together received 19.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Software Engineering Research (435 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (210 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (163 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (128 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (108 papers), Topic Modeling (72 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (69 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (53 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (8.7k citations), Information Systems (16.1k citations), Signal Processing (3.5k citations), Computer Science Applications (1.6k citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (5.0k citations). David Lo has collaborated with scholars based in Singapore, China and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Xin Xia, Ferdian Thung, Siau‐Cheng Khoo, Shaowei Wang, Xinyu Wang, C. P. Sun, Lingxiao Jiang, Yuan Tian, Pavneet Singh Kochhar and Shanping Li. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Empirical Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology and Automated Software Engineering.

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