Tao Xie - Awards

Tao Xie - Selected Awards and Honors

Also See Below the Keynote Speakers at Conferences/Workshops

2023 ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
2022 ISSRE 2022 Best Paper Candidate (one of three candidates)
2022 Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
2022 Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow
2022 Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Foundational Contribution Award
2022 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award, PhD Co-Advisor
2021 ACM Fellow (class of 2021)
2021 CCF Fellow
2021 CCF Distinguished Speaker
2021 ASE Most Influential Paper Award (for an ASE 2007 paper)
2021 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
2021 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (for an ESEC/FSE 2021 paper)
2020 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (for an ESEC/FSE 2020 paper)
2020 XPLORER PRIZE, a highly prestigious/selective award for young scientists working in mainland China/Hong Kong/Macao, being one of 50 winners across all science disciplines
2020 IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Service Award
2019 AAAS Fellow (class of 2019)
2019 CCF Distinguished Member
2019 David Lorge Parnas Fellow, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre
2018 Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) (the only award-winning paper selected out of 109 papers accepted by TSE in 2018)
2018 ICSE 2012 Paper selected as the single representative paper in year 2012, and among the 20 representative papers (one paper a year) selected from over 5,000 research papers published by Microsoft Research Asia during its 20 years.
2018 Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award
2018 IEEE Fellow (class of 2018) "for contributions to software testing and analytics"
2018 CCF Senior Member
2017- Selected as one of 7 Mentors for the Illinois Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) Program Sponsored by NSF
2017-2018 Selected to Participate in the Engineering Faculty Leadership Forum (EFLF), College of Engineering at Illinois (only 11 faculty members are invited to join this annual program in 2017)
2017 Selected to Attend Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) (selection based on record of accomplishment, proven ability to communicate, and promise)
2016 Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award (one of 32 Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborators from academia over the past 25 years)
2015-2016 Illinois Technology Foundation (ITF) Fifty for the Future Faculty Award (awarded to nominating faculty for PhD student Wing Lam, the winner of a 2015-2016 Illinois Technology Foundation Fifty for the Future Awardee)
2015 ACM Distinguished Scientist (class of 2015)
2015 Overseas and Hong Kong/Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Award (formerly Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar) (Extension Category) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (one of 20 awards in 2015 across all disciplines of math/physical/chemical/life/earth/engineering/material/information/management/medical sciences)
2015 Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, College of Engineering at Illinois (one of the ten faculty members in the College of Engineering at Illinois being selected for such honor in 2015)
2015 ICSE 2012 Paper rated among the most practically relevant software engineering research (ranked the second place) of the last five years in an industrial relevance study published in ESEC/FSE 2015.
2014 Google Faculty Research Award
2014-2017 Academic Advisory Committee Member, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
2014 ECOOP 2009 Paper being the 4th Most Cited ECOOP Paper among the Past Five Years of ECOOP papers, according to Google Scholar Metrics (Snapshot Taken in 2014)
2013 IEEE Software Best Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Paper Award at ICSE 2013
2013 Microsoft Research Award
2012 ASE 2007 Paper being the Most Cited ASE Paper among the Past Five Years of ASE papers, according to Google Scholar Metrics (Snapshot Taken in 2012)
2012 Overseas and Hong Kong/Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Award (formerly Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (one of the 137 awards in 2012 across all disciplines of math/physical/chemical/life/earth/engineering/material/information/management/medical sciences)
2012 IEEE Senior Member
2012 ACM Senior Member
2011 Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Award
2011 Acknowledged as one of the 14 reviewers (based on the quality and number of submitted reviews) among 386 reviewers of the ACM TOSEM journal over 2009 and 2010
2011 Selected to participate in the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP), 2011-2015
2011 Selected to participate in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP), 2011-2016
2010 USENIX LISA 2010 Best Student Paper Award
2010 IBM Faculty Award
2010 NCSU Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award (the only faculty member in the university receiving this award in 2010)
2010 Selected as one of the 9 overseas scholars in the Dragon Star Program supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2009 ASE 2009 Best Paper Award
2009 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (for an ASE 2009 paper)
2009 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2009 Acknowledged as one of the 12 reviewers (based on the quality and number of submitted reviews) among 334 reviewers of the ACM TOSEM journal over 2007 and 2008
2009 Inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
2009 IBM Faculty Award
2008 IBM Faculty Award
2008 IBM Jazz Innovation Award
2007 Microsoft Research Award
2007 Best Student Paper Award in ETX 2007
2006 ASE 2006 paper nominated for the Best Paper Award in ASE 2006
2005 The 3rd Place of 2005 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals, awarded at the 2005 ACM Award banquet.
2004 The 3rd Place of 2004 ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition at OOPSLA 2004.
2004 ICSM 2004 paper selected as one of the seven Best Papers in ICSM 2004 that appeared in a special issue of IEEE TSE transaction.
2003 ASE 2003 paper nominated for the Best Paper Award in ASE 2003 and selected as one of the three best papers in ASE 2003 that appeared in a special issue of ASE journal.

The tools in ASE 2003 paper are highlighted in the testdriven.com newsletter #1, December, 2003.

Keynote Speakers at Conferences/Workshops or Distinguished Lecturers at Institutes

“AI for Software Dependability: How Far Can We Go?”. Keynote Speaker. 27th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2022)
“AI for Software Engineering: A silver bullet for software engineering?”. Keynote Speaker. 22th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2022)
“AI for Software Engineering: A silver bullet for software engineering?” Keynote Speaker. The 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI 2022).
"Software Engineering Assisted by AI". Distinguished Lecturer. Tsinghua University Software Forum, 2022.
"AI-powered Software Development in the Software-defined Era". Keynote Speaker. Apsara Conference 2021.
“Intelligent Software Engineering Toward High Confidence Software: Working at the Intersection of AI and Software Engineering”. Keynote Speaker. 2021 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2021)
“Engineering Trustworthy Data-Centric Software: Intelligent Software Engineering and Beyond”. Keynote Speaker. 2021 International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2021)
“Intelligent Software Engineering: Working at the Intersection of AI and Software Engineering”. Keynote Speaker. 2021 Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Workshop (DSML 2021)
“From Intelligent Software Engineering to Trustworthy Software Automation”. Keynote Speaker. 2021 Colloquium on Intelligent and Embedded Software (CiES2021)
“Intelligent Software Testing”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 Huawei Testing Technology Conference.
“Intelligent Software Testing”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 Test Innovation Conference of Alibaba (TICA 2020)
“Software Quality Innovation Technologies”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 Huawei ICT Software Technology Conference.
“Intelligent Education and Skill Assessment for Software Engineering”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 National Software and Application Conference (NASAC) Software Engineering Education Forum.
“Intelligent Software Testing”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 Global Software Quality and Efficacy Conference (QECon 2020).
“Intelligent Software Engineering”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 Quality Management Summit of Tencent.
“Fundamental Software Innovation for Supporting Intelligent Applications. Keynote Speaker. 2020 China Computer Federation (CCF) China Computer Application Conference.
“The Intersection and Synergy of Software Engineering and Systems Software Research”. Keynote Speaker. 2020 18th ChinaSys Workshop (ChinaSys 2020).
"Mobile App Testing and Analysis: Getting There in Industrial Cases". Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis (A-Mobile 2020).
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Distinguished Speaker, George Mason University Department of Computer Science, Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2019.
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE 2019).
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Distinguished Speaker, the UC Irvine Institute for Software Research (ISR) Distinguished Speaker Series 2018-2019. (Slides) (Video)
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, Future Forum Young Leaders 2018. (Slides in Chinese)
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering" Distinguished Speaker, Nanjing University CS Initialization 60 Years & CS Department 40 Years Anniversary Lecture Series, 2018.
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering - Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2018). (Slides on SlideShare) (Local Slides)
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Distinguished Lecturer, The special 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. 2018.
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2018).
"When Security and AI Meet". Keynote Speaker, International Young Scientist Forum of Zhejiang University Cyberspace Security (SECForum 2017).
"Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy between AI and Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Software Mining (SoftMine 2017). (Slides)
"Engineering Mindset for Research and Career Development". Keynote Speaker, Broadening Participation in Data Mining Workshop (BPDM 2017). (Cancelled due to family emergency)
"Transferring Software Testing Tools to Practice". Keynote Speaker, IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2017).
"Software Analytics: Data Analytics for Software Engineering". Distinguished Speech, SE@umchi Lab Workshop, May 2017.
"Software Analytics - Achievements and Challenges". Keynote Speaker, Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2017). (Cancelled due to travel conflict with Tapia 2017)
"Towards Transferring Software Testing and Analysis Tools to Practice". Keynote Speaker, Colloquium on Logic in Engineering Dependable Software (LEDS 2016).
"Requirement Specifications based Test Automation". Keynote Speaker, China Requirements Engineering (RE) Industry Summit 2016. (Slides)
"Transferring Software Testing and Analytics Tools to Practice". Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Testing: Academia-Industry Collaboration, Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2016). (Slides)
"Software Analytics: Data Analytics for Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, Services Society Young Scientist Forum (SSYSF 2016) Chinese 4th Meeting Satellite Session.
"Impact-Driven Research on Software Engineering Tooling". Keynote Speaker, Chinese National Symposium on Software Analysis and Testing (SAT 2015). (Slides)
"Software Analytics: Towards Software Mining that Matters". Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Software Mining (SoftMine 2013). (Slides)
"PhD-Program Preparation for Successful Post-PhD Career". Keynote Speaker, Doctoral Symposium at International Symposium in Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2013). (Slides)
"Cooperative Testing and Analysis: Human-Tool, Tool-Tool, and Human-Human Cooperations to Get Work Done". Keynote Speaker, Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2013). (Slides)
"Synergy of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering". Keynote Speaker, International NSF sponsored Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2013). (Slides)
"Cooperative Testing and Analysis: Human-Tool, Tool-Tool, and Human-Human Cooperations to Get Work Done". Keynote Speaker, International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2012). (Slides)
"Making Exceptions on Exception Handling". Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Exception Handling (WEH 2012) co-located with ICSE 2012. (Slides)
"Evolving Testing and Analysis for Evolving Software". Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Evolving Critical Software Systems (IWECS 2011).
"Automated Developer Testing: Achievements and Challenges". Keynote Speaker, 2nd CREST Open Workshop Software Testing (COW), 2009.