Scholar
Tao Xie
Google Scholar ID: DhhH9J4AAAAJ
Peking University Chair Professor, Fudan University Adjunct Top-Talent Professor
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,728
H-index
54
i10-index
202
Publications
20
Co-authors
179
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published high-impact research in top venues including ICSE, FSE, ASE, EMNLP, and TSE
- Pex (IntelliTest) integrated into Visual Studio Enterprise since 2015
- VTest widely used by Alibaba for internal and ecosystem-wide mobile app testing
- WCTester and NMT issue detection techniques deployed in WeChat (over 1 billion monthly active users)
- TrainTicket microservice benchmark adopted by both academia and industry
Research Experience
- Collaborated with Tencent to develop an approach for detecting issues in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) without oracle translations; deployed in WeChat’s development and production environments
- Collaborated with Microsoft Research Asia on translating natural language to regular expressions for real-world robustness
- Co-released TrainTicket, an open-source microservice benchmark system with Fudan University, featuring 70+ microservices and 22 real-world fault cases
- Developed VTest (aka MonkeyBot) with Alibaba, adopted internally for daily testing of apps like Taobao and Alipay (over 1 billion users), and externally by the Software Green Alliance
- Built WCTester with Tencent, an Android testing tool deployed in daily operations to improve WeChat quality
- Co-developed Pex with Microsoft Research Redmond, shipped as IntelliTest in Visual Studio 2015/2017 Enterprise Edition since April 2015
Background
- Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
- Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and CCF
- Peking University Chair Professor
- Chair of Department of Software Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, Peking University
- Deputy Director of the Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies (PKU), Ministry of Education, China
- Research Focus: Software Engineering and Systems Software, including Software Testing, Software Analytics, Software Security, Intelligent Software Engineering, and Trustworthy AI
