Awards and Distinctions Received by My Students

Carl Gould

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  ICSE 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Honorable Mention
  UC Davis, 2004.   One of the five finalists.

• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards, Honorable Mention, 2004.

Jed Crandall

• Won an NSF CAREER Award, July 2009.
• Became Dr. Crandall and will join UNM as an assistant professor, May 2007.
• Best Graduate Researcher Award, CS Department, UC Davis, December 2006.
• A paper accepted by ASPLOS 2006 (22% acceptance rate), May 2006.
• A paper accepted by ACM CCS 2005 (15% acceptance rate, 38/249), July 2005.

Mark Gabel

• ARCS Fellowship, UC Davis, April 2009.
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist, December 2008.
• A paper accepted by SIGSOFT FSE 2008 (20% acceptance rate), May 2008.
• ARCS Fellowship, UC Davis, April 2008.
• Two papers accepted by ICSE 2008 (15% acceptance rate), December 2007.
• A paper accepted by LISA 2007, June 2007.
      on research done at Cal Poly with Michael Haungs.

Lingxiao Jiang

• Became Dr. Jiang and will soon start as an assistant professor at the Singapore Management University, October 2009.
• A paper accepted by ISSTA 2009 (27% acceptance rate), April 2009.
• Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award, UC Davis, June 2008.
• Best Graduate Researcher Award, Computer Science Department, UC Davis, June 2008.
• A paper accepted by SIGSOFT FSE 2008 (20% acceptance rate), May 2008.
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist, December 2007.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2008 (15% acceptance rate), December 2007.
• A paper accepted by ASE 2007 (12% acceptance rate, 37/312), August 2007.
• A paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2007 (17% acceptance rate, 43/251), May 2007.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2007 (15% acceptance rate, 49/334), December 2006.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2006 (9% acceptance rate, 36/395), December 2005.
• Non-resident Tuition Fellowship, UC Davis, 2003-2005.

Ghassan Misherghi

• Landed on a good job and became a Googler, May 2007.
• Awarded a M.S. degree in Computer Science, May 2007.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2007 (15% acceptance rate, 49/334), December 2006.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2006 (9% acceptance rate, 36/395), December 2005.

Andreas Saebjoernsen

• A paper accepted by ASE 2009 (17% acceptance rate), July 2009.
• A paper accepted by ISSTA 2009 (27% acceptance rate), April 2009.

Fangqi Sun

• A paper accepted by ESORICS 2009 (19% acceptance rate), June 2009.

Gary Wassermann

• Honorable Mention for Zuhair A. Munir Best Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis, April 2009.
• Best Dissertation Award, Computer Science Department, UC Davis, February 2009.
• Became Dr. Wassermann and joined HP, September 2008.
• A paper accepted by ISSTA 2008 (26% acceptance rate), March 2008.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2008 (15% acceptance rate), December 2007.
• A paper accepted by PLDI 2007 (25% acceptance rate), January 2007.
• A paper accepted by FSTTCS 2006 (22% acceptance rate), September 2006.
• A paper accepted by POPL 2006 (19% acceptance rate, 33/167), September 2005.
• Program Chair for Student Workshop on Computing, UC Davis, 2004.
• GAANN Fellowship, UC Davis, 2002-2003.

• UC Regents Scholarship, UC Davis, 1998-2002.

Liang Xu

• A paper accepted by ESORICS 2009 (19% acceptance rate), June 2009.