Celebration of Awesome ASEer Davis' 20ish Birthday!

Dinner by some Awesome ASEers for celebrating the Awesome ASEer Davis Li' 20ish Birthday!

Our Awesome ASE group has started a great tradition of celebrating our ASEers' birthdays!!

ASEer Wesley presented a poster in 2016 Digital Forensics Curriculum Standards Workshop

Graduating ASEer Wesley Brooks presented a poster in 2016 Digital Forensics Curriculum Standards Workshop.

Illinois ASEers: Play Hard, Work Harder, Work Smarter, Work Wiser.

Congratulation to Illinois ASEers, Awesome ASEr.ping128 (Ping Srisakaoukul), Awesome-ASEer-Android (Davis Li) and ASE Pexum (Chiao Hsieh) for dominating the popular game slither.io.

While taking a well-deserved break from studying for finals, three Illinois ASEers rank in the top ten in slither.io

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Illinois ASEer Siwakorn (Ping) Srisakaokul and Illinois Team to compete in ICPC World Finals

Every year the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) brings outstanding computer science students from around the world together for several days of symposia talks, networking, and intensive computing competition at the ICPC World Finals.

This year CS @ ILLINOIS will be sending three students to the world finals, held this year in Phuket, Thailand, May 15-20. One thing that stands out about this year’s Illinois team is that two of the three team members are freshmen. The team members are CS freshmen Lan Dao and Xin (“Victor”) Gao, and CS graduate student Siwakorn (PING!) Srisakaokul.

We wish Ping and his team the best of luck! Go get them! 

UIUC Software Engineering's Ranking According to "Rank CS departments by publication productivity"

According to the Rank CS departments by publication productivity website, constructed by a Rice CS Professor, based on top-venue publications in software engineering from 2005-2014, among the top 50 US Universities in Computer Science, our UIUC Software Engineering is ranked as below:

• Rank by group size: No 2, tie with USC and UCSD (No 1 is Carnegie Mellon University) (here is the snapshot taken on April 8, 2016)
• Rank by aggregate output: No 1 (No 2 is Carnegie Mellon University; No 3 is UC Davis) (here is the snapshot taken on April 8, 2016)
• Rank by maximal output: No 1, tie with University of Washington (No 2 is UC Davis; No 3 are Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech) (here is the snapshot taken on April 8, 2016)

The ranking methodology is described here. 

Our faculty and students in the Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering (PL-FM-SE) area at Illinois have been always pursuing and emphasizing impact of our research, NOT pursuing numbers. But it is good to see that we are doing also very well in terms of publication productivity.

We look forward to new students to join our Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering (PL-FM-SE) area at Illinois to make further bigger impact!

Illinois ASEer Wesley Brooks and team win 2016 UIUC Intramural Basketball Championship

On March 17, ASE member Wesley Brooks (middle, front row) and his team won the IM basketball championship for the third year in a row!

Illinois ASEers Watched NCAA Basketball Championship Game Before Working Hard

Chiao Hsieh, Wing Lam, and Wei Yang watched the NCAA Basketball Championship Game, and then after that, they held a Skype meeting with Peking University collaborators talking about deep learning, along with another ASEer Dengfeng Li (who couldn't come over to watch the game)! Play hard, work hard! Go, Illinois ASEers!!