PhD Student Jeff HUANG Won SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award 2013

The paper "CLAP: Recording Local Executions to Reproduce Concurrency Failures" by PhD student, Jeff HUANG, collaborated with IBM Research, has received the SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award at the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2013). This is the first SIGPLAN PLDI paper award in Asia. PLDI 2013 is a prestigious event for publishing research results in the area of programming languages and software analysis. The event was held in Seattle, USA.

Jeff, supervised by Prof Charles ZHANG, has defended his PhD thesis. He is currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr Julian DOLBY from IBM Research, Prof Zhang, and Jeff at the award presentation ceremony