Tao Xie - Students

Tao Xie - Students (Group Web)(Group Blog)

"Focus on the students, since graduating great students means you'll produce great research, while focusing on the research may or may not produce great students."- Nico Habermann (Tao Xie's academic grandfather)/David Notkin (Tao Xie's academic father)

Tao Xie is looking for bright, motivated (undergrad or grad) students and other colleagues to work with him on research projects related to his research interests.
Ph.D. Students:

JeeHyun Hwang (Jan 07-) co-advised with Laurie Williams

[SIGMETRICS 2008] XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine

Sihan Li (Aug 11-)
Rahul Pandita (Aug 09-)

Kiran Shakya (Dec 09-)
Yoonki Song (Jan 07-) co-advised with Emerson Murphy-Hill
Ruowen Wang (Aug 12-) co-advised with Peng Ning

[USENIX Security 2013] MetaSymploit: Day-One Defense Against Script-based Attacks with Security-Enhanced Symbolic Analysis

Xusheng Xiao (Aug 09-)

Wei (David) Yang (Aug 11-)

[USENIX Security 2013] WHYPER: Towards Automating Risk Assessment of Mobile Applications

Xiao (Lester) Yu (Aug 11-)

Part-Time PhD Students:

Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah (Full-time@Microsoft, Aug 10-)

John Majikes (Full-time@IBM, Sept 10-)

Undergraduate Students: (NCSU ASE REU Blog)

Khiry Arnold (Oct 09-)
Justin Ferguson (June 12-)
Xavier Primus (Oct 12-)
Khendr'a Reid (April 11-)
Vincent Sanders (Oct 12-)
Roshane Williams (July 11-)

High School Students

Other students who participate in research activities of the NCSU ASE group

Past students:

Ph.D.
- Kunal Taneja (Aug 06-December 12)
  Employment: Accenture Technology Lab, USA
  [ESEC/FSE 2011] Testing Software In Age Of Data Privacy: A Balancing Act
  [ISSTA 2011] eXpress: Guided Path Exploration for Efficient Regression Test Generation
- Suresh Thummalapenta (Jan 07-Dec 10) [Dissertation]
  Employment: IBM Research, India
         [OOPSLA 2011] Synthesizing Method Sequences for High-Coverage Testing
         [ICSE 2010] Mining API Mapping for Language Migration
         [ICSE 2009] Mining Exception-Handling Rules as Conditional Association Rules
         [ESEC/FSE 2009] MSeqGen: Object-Oriented Unit-Test Generation via Mining Source Code
         [ASE 2009] Alattin: Mining Alternative Patterns for Detecting Neglected Conditions
         [ASE 2008] SpotWeb: Detecting Framework Hotspots and Coldspots via Mining Open Source Code on the Web
         [ASE 2007] PARSEWeb: A Programmer Assistant for Reusing Open Source Code on the Web

Mithun Acharya (Jan 06-May 09) [Dissertation]
Employment: ABB Corporate Research, USA
[ESEC/FSE 2007] Mining API Patterns as Partial Orders from Source Code: From Usage Scenarios to Specifications

Ph.D. (Co-Supervised)

Xiaoyin Wang (PhD defended at Peking University in 2012) advised by Hong Mei, co-supervised with Lu Zhang
Employment: Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
[FSE 2012] Automating Presentation Changes in Dynamic Web Applications via Collaborative Hybrid Analysis
[FSE 2010] Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings in Web Applications
[ICSE 2009] Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings for Software Internationalization
[ICSE 2008] An Approach to Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports using Natural Language and Execution Information
Hao Zhong (PhD defended at Peking University in 2009) advised by Hong Mei, co-supervised with Lu Zhang
Employment: Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), China
[ICSE 2012] Inferring Method Specifications from Natural Language API Descriptions
[ICSE 2010] Mining API Mapping for Language Migration
[ASE 2009] Inferring Resource Specifications from Natural Language API Documentation
[ECOOP 2009] MAPO: Mining and Recommending API Usage Patterns

M.S.
- Justin Gorham (Aug 10-May 12)
- Kobina Inkumsah (Jan 06-May 08) [Master Thesis]
Employment: IBM Corporate, US
[ASE 2008] Improving Structural Testing of Object-Oriented Programs via Integrating Evolutionary Testing and Symbolic Execution
- Madhuri Marri (Jan 08-July 10)
  Employment: EMC Corporation, US
- Hai Yuan (Aug 05-May 06)
  Employment: Mobitrum Corporation, US
B.S.
- Belanov Apilli (June 08-May 10)
- Shengyen Tony Chen (June 10-Aug 10)
- Kyle L. Davis (Dec 09-May 10)
- Jonathan Fisher (March 11-May 12)
- William Lee Formyduval (April 09-Aug 09)
- Kamar Galloway (Dec 08-July 10)
- Justin Gorham (Jan 08-July 10)
- Anson Lewis (June 11-Aug 11)
- Charon Miller (July 09-May 11)
- John Cosgrove Stille (Oct 06-Aug 07) [NCSU Undergrad Research Award 06]
- Robinson Udechukwu (April 08-July 10)
- Charles Woelfel (May 09-May 10)
- Travis Weston (May 10-May 11)

Others

   Prasanth Anbalagan (M.S. Student, Jan 06-Dec 06)
      [ICSE 2007] Automated Inference of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented Refactoring
Suranjana Basu (M.S. Student, Aug 06-Feb 07)
   Haolan Fan (Aug 12-Dec 12)
   Nuo Li (Exchange Ph.D. student at Beihang U., Sept 07-Aug 09, defended) co-advised with Mao-zhong Jin
           Employment: ABB Corporate Research, China
   Evan Martin (Full-time@Google, Aug 05- not yet defended)
      [WWW 2007] A Fault Model and Mutation Testing of Access Control Policies
Tsy-Wang (Amos) Yang (M.S. Student, Full-time@Microsoft, Aug 06-Dec 07)
   Yuan Yao ( Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, Sept 12-March 13)
   Linghao Zhang (Exchange Ph.D. student at Nanjing U., Aug 10-July 11)

If you would like to work with him, please read his advice to students.

To get a quick start on research, you can read his advice on getting a start into research, his advice on writing research papers, and the overview of his past and current research.
You can read introductory readings of software testing research. You can also join his weekly research group meeting.

Dr. Xie's Ph.D. advisor is David Notkin, who received the University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award (2000) and whose Ph.D. advisor is Nico Habermann (1932-1993), whose Ph.D. advisor is Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002). All of them are Dr. Xie's role models of great software engineering researchers and educators. Dr. Xie's academic relatives can be found at his Software Engineering Academic Genealogy. Here is David Notkin's ACM Fellow Profile published in ACM SIGSOFT SEN Nov 2006.