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Italy
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
82
Citations
21748
World Ranking
982
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Xiaofeng Wang is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Their research focuses predominantly on the field of Computer Science, with 92 publications. Within this domain, their work covers several subfields including Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Thematic areas of Xiaofeng Wang's research include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software Engineering Research, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Open Source Software Innovations, Software System Performance and Reliability, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies.

Recent notable publications by Xiaofeng Wang include: Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering; Software Startups -- A Research Agenda (2023) in Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation (2023) in Journal of Information Technology; Understanding Hypotheses Engineering in Software Startups through a Gray Literature Review (2020) in Information and Software Technology; and Clues in Tweets (2022) presented at the Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

Xiaofeng Wang frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key co-authors include Jorge Melegati, Eduardo Guerra, Pekka Abrahamsson, Dron Khanna, and Henry Edison.

Their work is regularly published in several venues, with multiple contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In addition to journal and conference papers, Xiaofeng Wang has contributed to book publications. One such publication is part of a collection released by Springer Science+Business Media, titled Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (2021).

Best Publications

  • Effective and efficient malware detection at the end host

    Clemens Kolbitsch;Paolo Milani Comparetti;Christopher Kruegel;Engin Kirda

  • The Tangled Web of Password Reuse

    Anupam Das;Joseph Bonneau;Matthew Caesar;Nikita Borisov

  • Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones.

    Roman Schlegel;Kehuan Zhang;Xiao-yong Zhou;Mehool Intwala

  • Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: A Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow

    Shuo Chen;Rui Wang;XiaoFeng Wang;Kehuan Zhang

  • Coevolving Systems and the Organization of Agile Software Development

    Richard Vidgen;Xiaofeng Wang

  • 'Lots Done, More To Do': the Current State of Agile Systems Development Research

    Pekka Abrahamsson;Kieran Conboy;Xiaofeng Wang

  • Leaky Cauldron on the Dark Land: Understanding Memory Side-Channel Hazards in SGX

    Wenhao Wang;Guoxing Chen;Xiaorui Pan;Yinqian Zhang

  • IoTFuzzer: Discovering Memory Corruptions in IoT Through App-based Fuzzing.

    Jiongyi Chen;Wenrui Diao;Qingchuan Zhao;Chaoshun Zuo

  • Signing Me onto Your Accounts through Facebook and Google: A Traffic-Guided Security Study of Commercially Deployed Single-Sign-On Web Services

    Rui Wang;Shuo Chen;XiaoFeng Wang

  • People over process: key people challenges in agile development

    Kieran Conboy;Sharon Coyle;Xiaofeng Wang;Minna Pikkarainen

  • Privacy in the Genomic Era

    Muhammad Naveed;Erman Ayday;Ellen W. Clayton;Jacques Fellay

  • Learning your identity and disease from research papers: information leaks in genome wide association study

    Rui Wang;Yong Fuga Li;XiaoFeng Wang;Haixu Tang

  • Reinforcement Learning to Play an Optimal Nash Equilibrium in Team Markov Games

    Xiaofeng Wang;Tuomas Sandholm

  • Defending against denial-of-service attacks with puzzle auctions

    Xiaofeng Wang;M.K. Reiter

  • Knowing your enemy: understanding and detecting malicious web advertising

    Zhou Li;Kehuan Zhang;Yinglian Xie;Fang Yu

  • Sedic: privacy-aware data intensive computing on hybrid clouds

    Kehuan Zhang;Xiaoyong Zhou;Yangyi Chen;XiaoFeng Wang

  • People over Process: Key Challenges in Agile Development

    K. Conboy;S. Coyle;Xiaofeng Wang;Minna Pikkarainen

  • Leagile software development

    Xiaofeng Wang;Kieran Conboy;Oisin Cawley

  • Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming

    Alberto Sillitti;Angela Martin;Xiaofeng Wang;Elizabeth Whitworth

  • A Study of the Characteristics of Behaviour Driven Development

    Carlos Solis;Xiaofeng Wang

  • What happens when software developers are (un)happy

    Daniel Graziotin;Fabian Fagerholm;Fabian Fagerholm;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Why Early-Stage Software Startups Fail: A Behavioral Framework

    Carmine Giardino;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering

    Daniel Graziotin;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Commandersong: a systematic approach for practical adversarial voice recognition

    Xuejing Yuan;Yuxuan Chen;Yue Zhao;Yunhui Long

  • Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12.

    Jun Tang;Aleksandra Korolova;Xiaolong Bai;Xueqiang Wang

  • Key Challenges in Early-Stage Software Startups

    Carmine Giardino;Sohaib Shahid Bajwa;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • “Failures” to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups

    Sohaib Shahid Bajwa;Xiaofeng Wang;Anh Nguyen Duc;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

    Henry Edison;Xiaofeng Wang;Kieran Conboy

  • A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services

    Nattakarn Phaphoom;Xiaofeng Wang;Sarah Samuel;Sven Helmer

  • Assimilation of agile practices in use

    Xiaofeng Wang;Kieran Conboy;Minna Pikkarainen

  • Software Startups - A Research Agenda

    Michael Unterkalmsteiner;Pekka Kalevi Abrahamsson;Xiaofeng Wang;Anh Nguyen-Duc

  • Affordable and Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing Clusters: The Bolzano Raspberry Pi Cloud Cluster Experiment

    Pekka Abrahamsson;Sven Helmer;Nattakarn Phaphoom;Lorenzo Nicolodi

  • Do feelings matter? On the correlation of affects and the self-assessed productivity in software engineering

    Daniel Graziotin;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Lean Internal Startups for Software Product Innovation in Large Companies: Enablers and Inhibitors

    Henry Edison;Nina M. Smørsgård;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

    Daniel Graziotin;Fabian Fagerholm;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research

    Paul Ralph;Nauman bin Ali;Sebastian Baltes;Domenico Bianculli

  • Software Developers, Moods, Emotions, and Performance

    Daniel Graziotin;Xiaofeng Wang;Pekka Abrahamsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Abrahamsson
Pekka Abrahamsson Tampere University
Kieran Conboy
Kieran Conboy University of Galway
Dou Zhang
Dou Zhang Central South University
Qian Liu
Qian Liu Chengdu University
Haixu Tang
Haixu Tang Indiana University
Richard Vidgen
Richard Vidgen University of New South Wales
De-Shuang Huang
De-Shuang Huang Tongji University
Jishan Zhang
Jishan Zhang University of Science and Technology Beijing
Ita Richardson
Ita Richardson University of Limerick
Linzhong Zhuang
Linzhong Zhuang University of Science and Technology Beijing

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