Holds seven patents in China and the United States
Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Editorial board member of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) and Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
Former editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, 2006–2009) and Information and Software Technology (IST, 2012–2015)
Extended member of the ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee
Supervised student Jialun Cao, recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award 2025
Research Experience
Chair Professor at HKUST Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Co-founded the International Workshop on Automation of Software Testing (AST) in 2006
Leads the CASTLE Research Group
Active participant in program and organizing committees of major international software engineering conferences
Chaired the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) in 1996, 1997, and 2012
General Chair of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014)
Background
Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Founder of the CASTLE Research Group
Research focuses on using advanced testing, analysis, AI, and empirical experimentation techniques for fault detection, diagnosis, and repair in dependable and intelligent software systems
Research interests include software engineering, generative AI, benchmark construction, testing, fault detection, program repair, synthesis, and software analytics
Target applications: AI applications, open-source projects, deep learning systems, mobile apps, web applications, blockchain applications (including smart contracts and DApps), and spreadsheets