Awards and Distinctions Received by My Students

Mehrdad Afshari

• A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2012 (26% acceptance rate), June 2012.

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

• 2012 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award, August 2012.
• A paper accepted by SIGSOFT FSE 2012 (17% acceptance rate), June 2012.
• Became Dr. Gabel and will start as an assistant professor at UT Dallas in Fall 2011.
• Best Graduate Researcher Award, Computer Science Department, UC Davis, May 2010.
• A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2010 (27% acceptance rate), May 2010.
• A paper accepted by SIGSOFT FSE 2010 (20% acceptance rate), May 2010.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2010 (13.7% acceptance rate), December 2009.
• 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.

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.

Zhongxian Gu

• A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2012 (25% acceptance rate), July 2012.
• A demo paper accepted by ICSE 2011 (36.7% acceptance rate), January 2011.
• A paper accepted by ICSE 2010 (13.7% acceptance rate), December 2009.

David Hamilton

• A paper accepted by ICSE 2010 (13.7% acceptance rate), December 2009.

Lingxiao Jiang

• Honorable Mention for Zuhair A. Munir Best Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis, March 2010.
• Best Dissertation Award, Computer Science Department, UC Davis, March 2010.
• 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.

Taeho Kwon

• A paper accepted by SIGSOFT FSE 2012 (17% acceptance rate), June 2012.
• Became Dr. Kwon and will start a government research position in South Korea, December 2011.
• A paper accepted by CC 2012 (25% acceptance rate), December 2011.
• Extended ISSTA'10 paper accepted by IEEE TSE special issue, October 2011.
• A paper accepted by ICDM 2011 (18% acceptance rate), September 2011.
• ISSTA'10 paper invited for a special issue of IEEE TSE, September 2010.
• Received much media coverage for work reported in ISSTA'10 paper, August 2010.
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA'10, July 2010.
• A paper accepted by ISSTA 2010 (23% acceptance rate), April 2010.

Vu Minh Le

• A paper accepted by POPL 2013 (18% acceptance rate), October 2012.
• Microsoft Research Internship, Summer 2012.
• Participant of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Software Synthesis", April 2012.
• Awarded a Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship (2009-2011), 2009.

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

• Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award, UC Davis, June 2011.
• A paper accepted by USENIX Security 2011 (17% acceptance rate), April 2011.
• A paper accepted by ESORICS 2009 (19% acceptance rate), June 2009.

Drew Schleck

• A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2012 (25% acceptance rate), July 2012.

Enyi Tang (visiting student)

• A paper accepted by ISSTA 2010 (23% acceptance rate), April 2010.

Thanh Vo

• A paper accepted by POPL 2013 (18% acceptance rate), October 2012.
• Started working at Sybase (SAP) as a software developer, January 2012.
• Awarded a M.S. degree in Computer Science, December 2011.

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 USENIX Security 2011 (17% acceptance rate), April 2011.
• A paper accepted by ESORICS 2009 (19% acceptance rate), June 2009.

Qirun Zhang (visiting student)

• A paper accepted by PLDI 2013, February 2013.