Awards and Distinctions Received by Group Members (Students and Researchers)
Mehrdad Afshari
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2016, July 2016.
- Became Dr. Afshari, May 2016.
- ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award, PLDI 2014, 2014.
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2014 (18% acceptance rate), February 2014.
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2012 (26% acceptance rate), June 2012.
Earl Barr
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2014, May 2014.
- Joined University College London as a lecturer (tenure-track assistant professor), September 2012.
- A paper accepted by POPL 2013 (18% acceptance rate), October 2012.
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2012 (26% acceptance rate), June 2012.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2012 (25% acceptance rate), July 2012.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2012 (21% acceptance rate), January 2012.
- UCD Outstanding Postdoc Finalist, 2011-2012.
- 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.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2010 (23% acceptance rate), April 2010.
- Named a 2009-2010 I3P Fellow (one of two winners), 2009.
- A paper accepted by SDM 2009 (30% acceptance rate), 2009.
Yuting Chen (visiting researcher)
- A paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2017, June 2017.
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2016, January 2016.
- A paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2015, May 2015.
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.
Zhoulai Fu (post-doc)
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2017, February 2017.
- A paper accepted by CAV 2016, April 2016.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2015, August 2015.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2015, December 2014.
Mark Gabel
- Zuhair A. Munir Best Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis, March 2013.
- 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.
Tianxiao Gu (visiting student)
- A paper accepted by ASE 2016 (19% acceptance rate), July 2016.
Zhongxian Gu
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2014, May 2014.
- 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 OOPSLA 2016, August 2016.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2016 (25% acceptance rate), April 2016.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2016, December 2015.
- Became Dr. Le and joined Microsoft, September 2015.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2015, August 2015.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2015 (27.7% acceptance rate), March 2015.
- Best Graduate Researcher Award, Computer Science Department, UC Davis, May 2014.
- ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award, PLDI 2014, 2014.
- Two papers accepted by PLDI 2014, (18% acceptance rate) February 2014.
- Won First Prize at PLDI SRC, June 2013.
- A video demo accepted by MobiSys 2013, April 2013.
- A paper accepted by MobiSys 2013 (15.7% acceptance rate), March 2013.
- 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.
You Li (visiting student)
- Best Paper Award,
SPLASH/OOPSLA 2013, October 2013.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2013 (26% acceptance rate), July 2013.
Han Liu (visiting student)
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2017, December 2016.
Ghassan Misherghi
- Landed on a good job and became a Googler, May 2007.
- Awarded an 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.
Dong Qiu (visiting student)
- A paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2013 (20% acceptance rate), May 2013.
Andreas Saebjoernsen
- A paper accepted by ASE 2009 (17% acceptance rate), July 2009.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2009 (27% acceptance rate), April 2009.
Drew Schleck
- A paper accepted by SPLASH/Onward! 2014, May 2014.
- UCD CS departmental citation of excellence recipient, June 2013.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2012 (25% acceptance rate), July 2012.
Ting Su (visiting student)
- A paper accepted by ESEC/FSE 2017, June 2017.
- Won First Prize at ICSE SRC, May 2016.
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2016, January 2016.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2015, December 2014.
Chengnian Sun (post-doc)
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2017, February 2017.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2017, December 2016.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2016, August 2016.
- A paper accepted by ASE 2016 (19% acceptance rate), July 2016.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2016 (25% acceptance rate), April 2016.
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2016, January 2016.
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2016, December 2015.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2015, August 2015.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2015 (27.7% acceptance rate), March 2015.
Fangqi Sun
- Became Dr. Sun and joined Google, July 2014.
- A paper accepted by NDSS 2014 (19% acceptance rate), November 2013.
- 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.
Enyi Tang (visiting student)
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2010 (23% acceptance rate), April 2010.
Martin Velez
- Won First Prize at SPLASH SRC, October 2014.
- Awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship (2,000 winners / 13K+ applicants), March 2013.
- Awarded a UC Davis College of Engineering TOPS Fellowship, March 2012.
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 an M.S. degree in Computer Science, December 2011.
Ke Wang
- A paper accepted by IJCAI 2016 (25% acceptance rate), April 2016.
- Honorable Mention in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Research, CS Department, UC Davis, May 2015.
- Two papers accepted by IJCAI 2015 (28.8% acceptance rate), April 2015.
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 NDSS 2014 (19% acceptance rate), November 2013.
- Became Dr. Xu and joined Pandora, November 2013.
- 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, post-doc)
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2017 (14.6% acceptance rate), February 2017.
- A paper accepted by POPL 2017 (23% acceptance rate), October 2016.
- A paper accepted by ISSTA 2016 (25% acceptance rate), April 2016.
- PLDI 2013 work has been incorporated into LLVM, 2014.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2014, August 2014.
- Won Third Prize at PLDI SRC, June 2013.
- A paper accepted by PLDI 2013, February 2013.
Hao Zhong (visiting researcher, post-doc)
- A paper accepted by ICSE 2015, December 2014.
- A paper accepted by OOPSLA 2013, July 2013.
You Zhou
- UCD CS departmental citation of excellence recipient, June 2014.