Lecture Series on Advanced Software Testing Dr. Tao Xie Time: June 19 – June 23, 2009 Schedule June 19, 10:00-12:00 Invited talk: Improving Software Productivity and Quality via Mining Program Source Code About Dr. Tao Xie (谢涛)
Tao Xie's research is under two major themes: automated software testing and mining software engineering data. Besides doing research, he has contributed to understanding the software engineering research community. He has served as ACM SIGSOFT history liaison in the SIGSOFT Executive Committee. He received a 2008 IBM Faculty Award and a 2008 IBM Jazz Innovation Award. He is Program Co-Chair of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM). He has co-organized 2010 Dagstuhl Seminar on “Practical Software Testing: Tool Automation and Human Factors” and 2007 Dagstuhl Seminar on “Mining Programs and Processes”. He has served on program committees of various conferences and workshops, including ICSE, ASE, ISSTA, and WWW. Homepage: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/xie/ |

Tao Xie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005, advised by David Notkin. Before that, he received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2002, an M.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2000, advised by Hong Mei, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University in 1997. His research interests are in software engineering, with an emphasis on improving software quality and productivity. He leads the Automated Software Engineering Research Group at North Carolina State University.