Wing Lam Passed Preliminary Exam and on Job Market

Our ASEer, Wing Lam, passed his Preliminary Exam on Nov 24, 2020, and is expected to graduate in July 2021.

Wing works with Professor Darko Marinov and Professor Tao Xie. His research interests are in Software Engineering, with a focus on flaky tests, test-input generation, code-clone detection, automatic program repair, record and replay, and parameterized unit tests. He has published over 10 papers in Software Engineering and Programming Languages conferences including ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, and OOPSLA.

Wing is on the job market now and is interested in research positions in both academia and industry. Good luck, Wing!

Congratulations to Tao for winning Xplorer Prize

 Prof. Tao Xie is recently awarded with Xplorer Prize. Tao is among the 6 winners in the "Information and Electronics" categories along with the other 49 winners from top academics in China.

As a winner of the Xplorer Prize, Tao would be awarded near 500,000 US$ within five years. The prize is recognized as one of the highest academia achievements of people under 45 years, so it is highly competitive as the ratio between applicants and final winners is 25:1. 

Congratulations to Tao for winning Xplorer Prize!

Tao in the awarding ceremony.

Prof. Wei invited as special speaker in group meeting

In this Thursday's ASE group meeting, we have the honor to invite Prof. Wei Yang as a special speaker. He talks about his ongoing research and his recent born twin babies. Congratulations to Wei for being a father!

Prof. Wei Yang is currently a assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He teaches and does research on software engineering and security. Wei has a strong bond with the ASE group as a former PhD student in the group and graduated from UIUC in 2018 before being a professor in UT Dallas.

Prof. Wei Yang