people

The ASE research lab is looking for bright, motivated (undergrad or grad) students and other colleagues to work on research projects related to automated software engineering.

Principal Investigator

• Tao Xie

Current Ph.D. Students

• Angello Astorga (Aug 15-) co-advised with Madhusudan Parthasarathy
  • GEM PhD Fellowship 2016-2021
  • Generation Google Scholarship 2015-2016, State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Scholarship 2015-2016
• Liia Butler (Aug 19-)
• Wing Lam (Aug 15-) co-advised with Darko Marinov
  • Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship 2018-2019, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention 2017
  • State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Scholarship 2016-2017
  • Illinois Technology Foundation Fifty for the Future Award 2015-2016, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist 2016, Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship 2015-2016
• Linyi Li (Aug 18-) co-advised with Bo Li
  • Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship 2018-2019
• Wenyu Wang (Aug 17-) co-advised with Tianyin Xu
  • 3M Foundation Fellowship 2018-2021
• Zhengkai Wu (Aug 16-)
  • Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship 2016-2017
• Zirui Zhao (Aug 18-) co-advised with Tianyin Xu
  • Siebel Scholar 2018-2019

Alumni PhD

• Xueqing Liu (Aug 12-May 19) co-advised with ChengXiang Zhai
• First Employment: Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
• Wei Yang (Aug 13-, NCSU Aug 11-July 13) co-advised with Carl Gunter
• First Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Xusheng Xiao (Aug 09-June 14, NCSU PhD) co-advised with Laurie Williams
• Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• First Employment: NEC Labs America, USA
• Kunal Taneja (Aug 06-Dec 12, NCSU PhD) [Dissertation]
• Current Employment: Google, USA
• First Employment: Accenture Technology Lab, USA
• SureshThummalapenta (Jan 07-Dec 10, NCSU PhD) [Dissertation]
• Current Employment: TSE Team, Microsoft, USA
• First Employment: IBM Research, India
• Mithun Acharya (Jan 06-May 09, NCSU PhD) [Dissertation]
• Current Employment: TOTVS Labs, USA
• Employment: ABB Corporate Research, USA

Alumni M.S.

• Steven Layne (Aug 18-Dec 18, on leave since Jan 19) co-advised with Sanmi Koyejo
  • GEM Fellowship 2018-2020
• Jonathan Osei-Owusu (Aug 18-Aug 20)
  • GEM Fellowship 2018-2020
  • Siebel Scholar 2019-2020
• Ping (Siwakorn) Srisakaokul (Aug 15-May 20) co-advised with Bo Li
  • Royal Thai Government Scholarship 2015-2019, Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship 2015-2016
  • First Place of 2015 ACM Mid-Central USA Programming Contest, Compete in the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2016
• Shirdon Gorse (Aug 18-May 19)
• Liia Butler (Aug 17-May 19)
• Zexuan Zhong (Aug 17-May 19)
• Jade (Yue) Leng (Aug 17-Dec 18)
  • First Employment: Airbnb, USA
• Joey (Jiayi) Cao (Aug 17-May 18)
  • First Employment: Google, USA
• Davis (Dengfeng) Li (Aug 15-May 17)
  • Siebel Scholar 2015-2016
  • First Employment: Salesforce, USA
• Ore (Oreoluwa) Alebiosu (Aug 14-May 17)
  • GEM Fellowship 2014-2016, Siebel Scholar 2015-2016
  • 2015 MadHacks Wisconsin Idea Prize
  • First Employment: Intel, USA
• Wesley Brooks (Aug 15-May 16)
  • Illinois Cyber Security Scholarship 2015-2017
  • First Employment: Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• Mengqi Gu (Aug 14-June 16)
  • First Employment: Wolfram Research, USA
• Justin Gorham (Aug 10-May 12, NCSU MS)
• Kobina Inkumsah (Jan 06-May 08, NCSU MS) [Master Thesis]
  • Employment: IBM Corporate, US
• Madhuri R. Marri (Jan 08-July 10, NCSU MS)
  • Employment: EMC Corporation, US
• Hai Yuan (Aug 05-May 06, NCSU MS)
  • Employment: Mobitrum Corporation, US

Alumni Visiting Professors/Students

• Zhilei Ren (Oct 18-Oct 19)
• Zelin Zhao (Nanjing Univerity) (Sept 17-Sept 18)
• Mingming Zhang (Beihang University) (Sept 16-Sept 18)
• Tianyu Wo (Beihang University) (Sept 16-Sept 17)
• Ricardo Brito (Visiting MS student at U. Macau) (June 17-Aug 17)
• Qin Yi (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University) (Oct 15-Oct 16)
  • Pinjia He (Visiting Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong) (July 16-Sept 16)
• Yuan Yao (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, Sept 12-March 13)
• Linghao Zhang (Visiting Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, Aug 10-Aug 11)
• Nuo Li (Visiting Ph.D. student at Beihang University, Sept 07-Aug 09) co-advised with Mao-zhong Jin
• Wujie Zheng (Visiting Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong) (April 09-May 09)

Current/Past Undergraduate Students (ASE REU Blog)

• Oluwatofarati Agbaje
• Moshood Adeyemo
• Samuel Chadri
• Adrian Clark
• Jalen Coleman-Lands
• Jarred Elliott
• Jeremy Green
• Faramola Isiaka
• Eli Jenkins
• Dashawn Julion
• Alhaji Mansaray
• Pierre McCauley
• Aganze Mihigo
• Brandon Nsiah-Ababio
• Toheeb Okenla
• Joshua Reed
• Ayo Shogbonyo
• Joseph Sieger
• Jamal Simmonds
• Jonathan Wells
• Eric Anderson (May 13-August 13)
• Khiry Arnold (Oct 09-May 13)
• Belanov Apilli (June 08-May 10)
• Shengyen Tony Chen (June 10-Aug 10)
• Kavaruss Coleman (May 13-August 13)
• Gregory Daniels (May 13-August 13)
• Kyle L. Davis (Dec 09-May 10)
• Justin Ferguson (June 12-Dec 12)
• Jonathan Fisher (March 11-May 12)
• William Lee Formyduval (April 09-Aug 09)
• Kamar Galloway (Dec 08-July 10)
• Justin Gorham (Jan 08-July 10)
• Anson Lewis (June 11-Aug 11)
• Charon Miller (July 09-May 11)
• Xavier Primus (Oct 12-May 13)
• Khendr'a Reid (WSSU, April 11-August 11)
• John Stille (Oct 06-Aug 07) [NCSU Undergrad Research Award 06]
• Robinson Udechukwu (April 08-July 10)
• Roshane Williams (July 11-Dec 12)
• Charles Woelfel (May 09-May 10)
• Travis Weston (May 10-May 11)

High School Students

Others

• Blake Bassett (Aug 13-May 2015)
• NCSU
• Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah (Full-time@Microsoft, Aug 10-May 2013)
• PrasanthAnbalagan (M.S. Student, Jan 06-Dec 06)
• Suranjana Basu (M.S. Student, Aug 06-Feb 07)
• Haolan Fan (Ph.D. Student, Aug 12-Dec 12)
• Dr. Taisook Han (Visiting Professor, Sept 08- Aug 09, KAIST, Korea)
• JeeHyun Hwang (Jan 07-Jan 13)
• Sumaiya Jahangir (M.S. Student)
• Sihan Li (Aug 13-, NCSU Aug 11-July 13)
• John Majikes (Full-time@IBM,Sept 10-May 2013)
• Evan Martin (Full-time@Google, Aug 05-)
• Rahul Pandita (Aug 09-)
• Lakshmi Ramachandran (Ph.D. Student)
• Kiran Shakya (Dec 09-May 2013)
• Yoonki Song (Jan 07-May 2013)
• Ruowen Wang (Aug 12-)
• Lenard Williams (M.S. Student)
• Tsy-Wang (Amos) Yang (M.S. Student, Full-time@Microsoft, Aug 06-Dec 07)
• Ge Xi (Dec 09-May 11)
• Xiao (Lester) Yu (Aug 11-May 14)
• Huinan Zhang (Ph.D. Student)

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