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[Chinese Edition of Bio 中文简历]
Short Version:
Tao
Xie is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA. He worked as a visiting researcher at
Microsoft Research. His research interests are in software engineering.
He received
an NSF CAREER Award, a
Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award, a Microsoft Research Software
Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF)
Award, a
Google
Faculty Research Award, a Facebook Testing and Verification Research
Award, an IBM Jazz
Innovation Award, and three-time IBM Faculty Awards. He was the Program Chair of 2015 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software
Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) and will be a Program Co-Chair of 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
He was the Program/General Chair of 2017/2018 ACM Richard Tapia
Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia). He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal of Software
Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR). He has been an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
(TSE) and the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), along
with an
Editorial Board Member of ACM's flagship publication Communications of ACM (CACM). He was
an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society
Distinguished
Visitor. He was selected by Lero as a David Lorge Parnas Fellow in
2019. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2015, an
IEEE Fellow in 2018, and an AAAS Fellow in 2019. His
homepage is at http://taoxie.cs.illinois.edu.
Long Version:
Tao Xie is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Before July 2013, he
was an Associate 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 at
Seattle 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. He worked as a visiting researcher at Microsoft
Research. His research interests are in software engineering,
with focus on software testing, software analytics, software security, intelligent software engineering (the intersection
between software engineering and artificial intelligence), and educational software engineering. He heads the Automated
Software Engineering Group at Illinois CS, and is a
member of the Programming
Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering (PL-FM-SE)
area at Illinois CS, along with Illinois Information Trust Institute and Illinois Informatics Institute (previously with ZJU-UIUC Institute). He was an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer
Society Distinguished Visitor. He was selected by Lero as a David Lorge Parnas Fellow in
2019. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2015, an IEEE Fellow
in 2018, and an AAAS Fellow in 2019 (after only 10, 12, and 14 years of post-PhD professional
experience, respectively). His homepage is at http://taoxie.cs.illinois.edu.
He
has contributed to broad software
engineering and computing research communities with extensive
professional services. He has served as the ACM
SIGSOFT History Liaison in the SIGSOFT
Executive Committee. He served as a member and the SGB Liaison of the
ACM History Committee. He received a National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
in 2009. He received a Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award, a Google
Faculty Research Award, a Microsoft Research Software
Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF)
Award, a Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award,three-time IBM
Faculty
Awards, and an IBM
Jazz
Innovation Award. He received 2010 North Carolina State University
Sigma Xi
Faculty Research Award (the only faculty member in the university receiving this award in 2010). He was among ten faculty members in the College of
Engineering at Illinois selected as Donald
Biggar Willett Scholars for 2015. He received the 2018 TSE Best Paper Award, the IEEE
Software Best Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Paper Award
at ICSE 2013, the ASE 2009
Best Paper Award, and an ACM
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. His research has been supported
by
NSF, NIST, ARO, Google, IBM, Microsoft Research, Fujitsu Lab, and ABB
Research. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal of Software
Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR). He is an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT),an Advisory Board Member/Awards Chair of the IEEE Software
Magazine, an Editorial Board Member of ACM's flagship publication Communications of ACM (CACM), and a Leading Editor of the Journal
of Computer Science and Technology (JCST).
He was a Program Co-Chair of 2009 IEEE International Conference
on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
and a Program Co-Chair of 2011/2012 International Working Conference
on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
He was the Program Chair of 2015 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software
Testing and Analysis (ISSTA).
He was the Program/General Chair of 2017/2018 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia). He will be a Program Co-Chair of 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). He has served on program committees of
various major conferences, such as ICSE, FSE, ISSTA, OOPSLA, ASE, WWW,
S&P (Oakland), and CCS.