Zhihao Chen is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor and master of computer science from South China University of Technology. Zhihao worked for five years for computer companies such as HP, CA, and EMC. He is doing research in Software Engineering under Professor Barry W. Boehm, participating in the CeBASE project, whose goal is to support the generation of an empirically based software development process covering high-level life-cycle models to low-level techniques.