Na Meng 
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Gilbert Place, Room 4311A
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Na Meng
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Na Meng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech since 2021. She received her B.E. in Software Engineering from Northeastern University (NEU) in China in 2006, and received her M.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in China in 2009. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014, advised by Miryung Kim and Kathryn S. McKinley. She started working in Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2015.
Dr. Meng's research interests span Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Software Security, and Artificial Intelligence. She leads the NiSE (iNnovations in Software Engineering) research group, which conducts various empirical studies and develops novel automated approaches. The group's mission is to uncover new and intriguing phenomena in contemporary software practices, design innovative tools that advance software development as well as maintenance in the future, and create automated solutions that address real-world challenges--ultimately enhancing public well-being and improving human health. Dr. Meng received the NSF CAREER Award in 2019. Her research has been supported by NSF, ONR, CCI, and OpenAI.
01/2026: Our paper on "Combining Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations to Resolve Build Conflicts" got accepted by MSR 2026!
12/2025: Congratulations to Sheikh Shadab Towqir for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
Yeana Bond (PhD student, Spring 2025 - ) yeana@vt.edu
Ye Cao (MS student, Spring 2025 - ) yecao@vt.edu
Xiaoyan Zang (MS student, Fall 2025 - ) xiaoyanzang24@vt.edu
CS6704: Software Engineering Research [Spring17][Spring19][Spring21][Fall24]
CS5704: Software Engineering [Spring16][Spring18][Spring20][Spring24]
CS3304: Comparative Languages [Fall16][Fall17][Fall18][Fall20]
CS3704: Intermediate Software Design and Engineering [Fall15][Fall19][Spring22][Fall23][Fall24]
Security coding practices[SecDev22][ICPC22][IEEE S&P'22][TSE22][SecDev20][TIFS19][ICSE19][ICSE18]
Artificial intelligence and software engineering[IJCNN21][TDSC19][ICSME18a][ICSME17a]
Automated program generation[ESEC/FSE21][ITiCSE21][IJCAI19]
Automated program transformations [ASE20][ICPC19][MOBILESoft18][ICSE15][ICSE13][PLDI11]
Software bugs and fixes[ASE22][TOSEM'22][SANER22][ICSE21][JSS19][ICSME18b][EMSE17][ICSME17b][ICPC17]
Program comprehension[ICSE20][LCTES19][JSS18]
Cyber-Physical Systems[JOBE'22][CRC22]
The implementations from nearly all of my publications are publicly available. Other researchers have used several of these implementations in their publications. See projects and GitHub for details.
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)-PTGXR5RJ, CCI-P4TLGZ22, CCI-PMH7EUMV, CCI-PE6GLBAE, ONR N00014-22-1-2057, NSF-2006278