在TOSEM、FSE、ASE、IST、SANER等在内的国际重要期刊和会议上发表论文多篇，包括CCF推荐的A/B类期刊/会议论文9篇（其中第一作者/通讯作者6篇）、SCI二区的国际期刊IEEE Transactions on Reliability论文一篇 (第一作者)。共主持浙江省探索青年项目1项，参与国家基金项目4项、江苏省杰出青年基金项目1项，以及浙江省基金项目2项。

其中部分论文如下：

[1] YangyangZhao*, Yibiao Yang, Yuming Zhou, Zuohua Ding. DEPICTER: A design-principle guided and heuristic-rule constrained software refactoring approach[J]. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2022. (SCI 二区)

[2]Yangyang Zhao, Bogdan Vasilescu, et al. The impact of continuous integration on other software development practices: a large-scale empirical study[C]//Proceedings of 2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). IEEE, 2017: 60-71..(ASE, CCF-A) 

[2] Yangyang Zhao, Hareton Leung, et al. Towards an understanding of change types in bug fixing code. [J]. Information and Software Technology, 2017, 86: 37-53. (IST, CCF-B)

[3] Yangyang Zhao, Yibiao Yang, et al. Understanding the value of considering client usage context in package cohesion for fault-proneness prediction[J]. Automated Software Engineering, 2016: 1-61. (ASE, CCF-B)

[4] Yangyang Zhao, Yibiao Yang, et al. An empirical analysis of package-modularization metrics: Implications for software fault-proneness[J]. Information and Software Technology, 2015, 57: 186-203. (IST, CCF-B)

[5] Chenglin Li, Yangyang Zhao*, Yibiao Yang. An empirical study of the bug link rate [C]. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE 22st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS). IEEE, 2022. (通讯作者，CCF推荐C类会议)

[6]Yuming Zhou, Yibiao Yang, Hongmin Lu, Lin Chen, Yanhui Li, Yangyang Zhao, et al. How far we have progressed in the journey? an examination of cross-project defect prediction[J]. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018, 27(1): 1-51. (TOSEM , CCF-A)

[7] Yibiao Yang, Yuming Zhou, Jinping Liu, Yangyang Zhao, et al. Effort-aware just-in-time defect prediction: simple unsupervised models could be better than supervised models[C]//Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering. ACM, 2016: 157-168. (FSE, CCF-A)

[8] Yibiao Yang, Yangyang Zhao, et al. An empirical investigation into the effect of slice types on slice-based cohesion metrics[J]. Information and Software Technology, 2016, 75: 90-104. (IST, CCF-B)