Ph.D. U. Washington  2005 M.S.  U. Washington  2002 M.S.  Peking U.          2000 B.S.   Fudan U.           1997 LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Blog WeiBo SinaBlog

Tao Xie               Hsieh /shear/ Associate Professor Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University 2278 EB II, 890 Oval Drive Campus Box 8206 Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Phone: (919) 515-3772 Fax:     (919) 515-7896 Request his talks through ACM Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) or IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP)! Google Scholar Citations

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• Recent and ongoing work on Software Analytics with successful technology transfer in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia is being produced. See the ICSE 2012 paper on StackMine, ACSAC 2012 paper on XIAO, SRDS 2012 short paper and ASE 2012 short paper on log mining along with MALETS 2011 position paper/presentation slides and ICSE 2012 SEIP Mini-Tutorial.
  
• The contributed Fitnex technique [DSN 2009] went into Pex releases (produced by Microsoft Research) since Sept. 2008; substantial collaborative work upon Pex has been published widely in top software engineering venues.
  
• Pex has had high download counts in industry and academia, e.g., more than 30,000 during a 20-month period of Feb. 2008-Oct. 2009.
• The contributed concept of Coding Duel games went into Pex for Fun releases (produced by Microsoft Research) since Summer 2010. See the ICSE 2013 SEE paper on Pex for Fun.
  
• Since its release in Summer 2010 till Oct. 2012, for only about two years, Pex for Fun has already had over 1 million game-play interactions made by players around the world.
• The jointly-developed NCSU/NIST ACPT (Access Control Policy Tool) is available as a beta release.
  
• As of Sept. 2012, ACPT had been downloaded more than 130 copies by industrial and government organizations including: NSA, MITRE, DISA, NOAA, SAIC, DNI, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Fermi Lab, BAE system, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, SMI, VA government, John Hopkins University, and organizations from foreign countries (the number of downloads is still growing every week).
  

• Cooperative testing and analysis: Pex Extensions [SCAM 12][FSE 12][ICSE 11][OOPSLA 11] ...
• Analysis of textual software artifacts: [USENIX Security 13][WWW 13][FSE 12][ICSE 12][ASE 09] ...
• Performance/energy-efficient applications: [SRDS 12s][ICSE 12][ASE 12s] ...
• (Big) data analytics applications [ICSE 13 SEIP][ASE 11s] ...
• Mobile/cloud applications: TouchDevelop [USENIX Security 13][NCSUCSC 13-3][FASE 13][ITiCSE 12][IEEE Software 12][IEEE Computer 12] ...
  
• Cyber-physical systems (e.g., medical device software): [MCPS 13][ASE 10s] ...
• Security and privacy: ACPT [USENIX Security 13][USENIX Security 13][FSE 12][ACSAC 12][TAAS 12][TNSM 12][ESEC/FSE 11] ...
  
• Educational software engineering: Pex4Fun [ICSE 13 SEE][GAS 13][SAICSIT 11][CSEE&T 11] ...
  

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• Software Engineering Community: Chronology, Community Dir, Genealogy, Conference Map, Statistics , ...
• Advice Portal:  Advice on Writing Research Papers, Mapping Out a Research Agenda, Research/advising Blog, ...
• NCSU ASE Group: Group News Blog, REU blog, K12 wiki, NCSU ASE Research overview, ...
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• Software Analytics Tutorials/Resources: Software Analytics, Text Analytics for SE, Mining SE Data, ...
• Software Testing Tutorials/Resources: Teaching Parameterized Unit Testing/Pex, Parameterized Unit Testing, Automated Developer Testing, ...