Received Best Paper Awards at ICPC'06, ICPC'07, SCAM'10, ICSM'13, ICPC'18 ERA, CODAPSY'19, etc.; received Distinguished Paper Awards at ICSM'10, S&P'24, ASE'13, ICSE'15, ESEC/FSE'15, ICPC'16, ASE'17, ESEC/FSE'19, ICSE'20, FSE'24, etc.; recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2013); Most Influential Paper Awards at ICSME'16, ICPC'17, ICPC'20, ICSME'21, SCAM'24, MSR'25.
Research Experience
Leads SEMERU research group; serves as a Program Co-Chair or Area Co-Chair for multiple international conferences such as FSE’25, MOBILESoft'24, ASE’24, ICSE'23, etc.; serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE, Springer), etc.
Education
Ph.D. from Wayne State University, advised by Dr. Andrian Marcus.
Background
Chancellor Professor and Graduate Director in the Computer Science Department at William & Mary, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member. His research interests include software engineering; software analytics; evolution and maintenance; program comprehension; deep learning for software engineering (DL4SE) and SE for deep learning (SE4DL); mobile app development, testing, and security; reverse engineering; repository mining; and traceability.