Angello Astorga Awarded a Generation Google Scholarship

Angello Astorga, currently an undergraduate student at Ohio State University CS Department and incoming PhD student in our Illinois ASE group, has been awarded a Generation Google Scholarship.

Read more about the scholarship here.

Tao Xie Guest-Edited IEEE Software's Special Issue on Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond

Antonia Bertolino, M. Brian Blake, Pankaj Mehra, Hong Mei, and Tao Xie. Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond. IEEE Software, Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond, Guest Editors' Introduction, Volume 32, Issue 1, pages 35-37, January/February, 2015.

Read more here.

Listen more here: audio interview with guest editors

Log2 Paper Accepted as a USENIX ATC 2015 Research Paper

Rui Ding, Hucheng Zhou, Jian-Guang Lou, Hongyu Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Qiang Fu, Dongmei Zhang, and Tao Xie. Log2: A Cost-Aware Logging Mechanism for Performance Diagnosis. In Proceedings of the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2015), Santa Clara, CA, June 2015.

Code Hunt Paper Accepted as an ICSE 2015 JSEET Paper

Judith Bishop, Nigel Horspool, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, and Jonathan de Halleux. Code Hunt: Experience with Coding Contests at Scale. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), JSEET, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
[PDF] Acceptance Ratio: 28%: 20 full+7 short/72
Read more here: the Code Hunt Game homepage

Paper Accepted as a WWW 2015 Research Paper

Yun Ma, Shuhui Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Ruirui Xiang, Yunxin Liu, and Tao Xie. Measurement and Analysis of Mobile Web Cache Performance. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015.
[PDF] Acceptance Ratio: 14%

AppContext Paper Accepted as an ICSE 2015 Research Paper

Wei Yang , Xusheng Xiao, Benjamin Andow, Sihan Li , Tao Xie , and William Enck. AppContext: Differentiating Malicious and Benign Mobile App Behavior Under Contexts. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering 
(ICSE 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015.

[PDF] Acceptance Ratio: 19%

Tao Xie Chosen as Willett Scholar

Tao Xie was among ten faculty in the College of Engineering selected as Donald Biggar Willett Scholars for 2015. This recognition is targeted for faculty members who, at a relatively early stage in their careers, are excelling in their contributions to the University of Illinois.

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