Tao Xie - Students

Tao Xie - Students (Group Web)

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs."
<== by Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002) (Tao Xie's academic great grandfather)

"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."
<== by Nico Habermann (1932-1993) (Tao Xie's academic grandfather), inherited by David Notkin (1955-2013) (Tao Xie's academic father)

Would like to be part of the legacy of Dijkstra/Habermann/Notkin? Tao Xie is looking for bright, motivated (undergrad or grad) students to join the Automated Software Engineering Research Group on conducting high-impact research projects.

Current Peking University PhD Students:

Tianyu Chen (Sept. 2020-)
Yingjie Fu (Sept. 2020-)
Zhenwen Li (Sept. 2020-)
Luyao Ren (Sept. 2020-) advised by Yingfei Xiong (co-supervision)
Hao Yu (Sept. 2020-) advised by Ying Li (co-supervision)
Chenxu Liu (Sept. 2021-)
Dezhi Ran (Sept. 2021-)
Zongyang Li (Sept. 2021-) advised by Ying Li (co-supervision)
Junhao Hu (Sept. 2022-)
Yibo He (Sept. 2022-)
Zhiyue Hua (Sept. 2022-) advised by Wenping Jiao (co-supervision)
Xiangyun Deng (Sept. 2023-)
Anming Liu (Sept. 2023-)
Zhou Yang (Sept. 2023-)

Current Peking University MS Students:

Lori Jia (Sept. 2021-) [International Student]

Current UIUC Ph.D. Students:

Angello Astorga (Aug 15-) co-advised with Madhusudan Parthasarathy

Linyi Li (Aug 18-) co-advised with Bo Li

Past PhD Students

Zhengkai Wu (Aug 16-July 22)
First Employment: Citadel, USA
Wenyu Wang (Aug 17-Dec 22) co-advised with Tianyin Xu
First Employment: Meta (Facebook), USA
Wing Lam (UIUC Aug 15-Aug 21) co-advised with Darko Marinov [Dissertation]
First Employment: Assistant Professor, George Mason University, USA
2022 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award
Xueqing Liu (UIUC Aug 12-Aug 19) co-advised with ChengXiang Zhai [Dissertation]
First Employment: Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Wei Yang (UIUC Aug 13-May 18, NCSU Aug 11-July 13) co-advised with Carl Gunter [Dissertation]
First Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA (NSF CAREER Award Winner)
Xusheng Xiao (NCSU Aug 09-June 14) co-advised with Laurie Williams [Dissertation]
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA (NSF CAREER Award Winner)
First Employment: NEC Labs America, USA
Kunal Taneja (NCSU Aug 06-December 12, NCSU) [Dissertation]
Current Employment: Google, USA
First Employment: Accenture Technology Lab, USA
Suresh Thummalapenta (NCSU Jan 07-Dec 10, NCSU) [Dissertation]
Current Employment: TSE Team, Microsoft, USA
First Employment: IBM Research, India
Mithun Acharya (NCSU Jan 06-May 09, NCSU) [Dissertation]
Current Employment: TOTVS Labs, USA
First Employment: ABB Corporate Research, USA
Xiaoyin Wang (Peking U. co-supervisd, PhD defended at Peking University in 2012) advised by Hong Mei, co-supervised with Lu Zhang
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, the University of Texas at San Antonio (NSF CAREER Award Winner)
First Employment: Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
Hao Zhong (Peking U. co-supervised, PhD defended at Peking University in 2009) advised by Hong Mei, co-supervised with Lu Zhang
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
First Employment: Assistant Professor, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), China

Past MS Students:

Steven Layne (Aug 18-Dec 18, on leave since Jan 19) co-advised with Sanmi Koyejo

GEM Fellowship 2018-2020

Jonathan Osei-Owusu (Aug 18-Aug 20)

GEM Fellowship 2018-2020
Siebel Scholar 2019-2020

Ping (Siwakorn) Srisakaokul (Aug 15-May 20) co-advised with Bo Li

Royal Thai Government Scholarship 2015-2019, Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship 2015-2016
Finalist, 2016 ACM ICPC World Final
First Place, 2015 ACM Mid-Central USA Programming Contest

Zexuan Zhong (Aug 17-May 19)

2nd Place in Pre-competition Challenge on Neural Networks at 2019 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC 2019)
Finalist, 2019 ACM ICPC World Final
Gold Medal, 2018 and 2017 ACM ICPC Mid-Central USA Regionals Chicago site
Siebel Scholar 2018-2019
First Employment: PhD student at Princeton CS

Shirdon Gorse (Aug 18-May 19)

First Employment: Uber, USA

Liia Butler (UIUC, Aug 17-May 19) co-advised with Geoffrey Challen

First Employment: PhD student at Illinois CS

Jade (Yue) Leng (UIUC, Aug 17-Dec 18)

First Employment: Airbnb, USA

Joey (Jiayi) Cao (UIUC, Aug 17-May 18）

First Employment: Google, USA

Davis (Dengfeng) Li (UIUC, Aug 15-May 17)

Siebel Scholar 2016-2017
First Employment: Salesforce, USA

Ore (Oreoluwa) Alebiosu (UIUC, Aug 14-May 17)

GEM Fellowship 2014-2016, Siebel Scholar 2015-2016
2015 MadHacks Wisconsin Idea Prize
First Employment: Intel, USA

Wesley Brooks (UIUC, Aug 15-May 16)

Illinois Cyber Security Scholarship 2015-2017
First Employment: Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Mengqi Gu (UIUC, Aug 14-June 16) [Thesis] [LinkedIn]
First Employment: Wolfram Research, USA
Kobina Inkumsah (NCSU, Jan 06-May 08) [Master Thesis]
Current Employment: SignalPath, USA
First Employment: IBM Corporate, USA
Kiran Shakya (NCSU, 2013)
Rahul Pandita (NCSU, 2011) [LinkedIn]
First Employment: Phase Change Software LLC, USA
Justin Gorham (NCSU, Aug 10-May 12)
Current Employment: Itron, Inc., USA
First Employment: Sensus, USA
Madhuri Marri (NCSU, Jan 08-July 10)
Current Employment: Amazon, USA
First Employment: EMC, USA
Hai Yuan (NCSU, Aug 05-May 06)
Current Employment: Microsoft, USA
First Employment: Mobitrum Corporation, USA

Former Visiting Students/Professors

Zhilei Ren (Dalian University of Technology) (Oct 18-Oct 19)
Zelin Zhao (Nanjing University) (Sept 17-Sept 18)
Mingming Zhang (Visiting PhD student at Beihang University) (Sept 16-May 18)
Tianyu Wo (Visiting Professor at Beihang University) (Sept 16-Sept 17)
Qin Yi (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University) (Oct 15-Oct 16)
Pinjia He (Visiting Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong) (July 16-Sept 16)
Yuan Yao (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, Sept 12-March 13)
First Employment: Assistant Researcher, Nanjing University, China
Linghao Zhang (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, Aug 10-Aug 11)
Nuo Li (Visiting Ph.D. student at Beihang University, Sept 07-Aug 09) co-advised with Mao-zhong Jin
Current Employment: ABB AG, Germany
First Employment: ABB, China
Wujie Zheng (Visiting Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong) (April 09-May 09)
First Employment: Tencent, China

Other Student Alumni

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.
You can read introductory readings of software testing research. You can also join his weekly research lab meeting.

Dr. Xie's Ph.D. advisor is David Notkin (1955-2013), 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.