Tao Xie

Tao Xie is a computer scientist specializing in software engineering, with a focus on software testing, program analysis, software analytics, software security, and intelligent software engineering.

Academic background Tao Xie earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005, under the supervision of Professor David Notkin. He served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University until July 2013.

Research contributions Xie's work at the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence has led to advancements in intelligent software tools and educational platforms. He developed techniques to automate software testing, including test input generation, test oracles, and debugging assistance. IEEE Fellow (2018) AAAS Fellow (2019) ACM Fellow (2021)

In addition to his research publications, Xie has held key leadership roles in organizing major conferences. He served as the Program Chair for the 2015 ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA and as the Program Co-Chair for the 2021 IEEE/ACM ICSE. Xie has served on the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence / AIOps since 2020 in conjunction with the ICSE, ASPLOS, MLSys, and AAAI annual conferences.

Xie's contributions extend beyond conference organization to include active participation in editorial boards including Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), and the Editorial Board Member of Communications of the ACM (CACM).

Select publications

Suresh Thummalapenta, Tao Xie "Parseweb: a programmer assistant for reusing open source code on the web" (2007) Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, John Anvik, Jiasu Sun "An approach to detecting duplicate bug reports using natural language and execution information" (2008) Hao Zhong, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang, Jian Pei, Hong Mei "MAPO: Mining and recommending API usage patterns" (2009)