Tao Xie is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of
Computer Science of the College of Engineering
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 reliability and dependability.
He leads the Automated
Software Engineering Research Group at North Carolina State
University. Here is his Curriculum
Vitae.
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 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2009. He received 2008 and 2009 IBM
Faculty Awards and a 2008 IBM
Jazz Innovation Award. He received the ASE 2009 Best Paper Award and an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. His research has been supported by NSF, NIST, ARO,
IBM, Microsoft Research, ABB Research, SOSI, and CACC. He was Program Co-Chair
of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM). He
has served on program
committees of various conferences and workshops, including
ICSE, ASE, ISSTA, and WWW.