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Mingwei Zheng

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1995Rising activity

Publications

17

Citations

132

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

32

Publishing since 1995

Research summary
AI-generated

The bibliographic record under this name appears to combine work from multiple distinct research areas, including software engineering (e.g., studying why developers remove certain code constructs in Java), sensing and measurement (using near-infrared spectroscopy and dielectric data to estimate soil/gravel moisture), remote sensing for forest carbon estimation, atmospheric optics, and earlier work on oil and gas reservoir engineering. Because these topics are quite disparate and span very different subfields, this may reflect contributions from several different researchers sharing the same name rather than a single coherent research program. Prospective students should independently verify which specific publications and topics belong to the PI they are interested in.

Software engineering and program analysisSensing and measurement (NIR spectroscopy, dielectric sensing)Remote sensing and environmental data analysisMachine learning applicationsReservoir engineering and geoscience (earlier work)

Publication output was minimal or absent from 2017-2019, then increased gradually to about 1 paper per year from 2020-2023, followed by a noticeable rise to 2-3 papers per year in 2024-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
1718192020: 1 publication202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication222023: 1 publication232024: 3 publications3242025: 2 publications252026: 3 publications326
Publishes in
  • Construction and Building Materials×1
  • Forests×1
  • Measurement×1
  • Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.×1
  • Sensors×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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