PhD Student Awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

PhD student Yepang LIU has been awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award in the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering held during 31 May - 7 June 2014 in India with his paper "Characterizing and detecting performance bugs for smartphone application". The work was under Yepang's collaboration with Prof Chang XU from Nanjing University. Prof Xu was a PhD graduate from CSE in 2008.

(From left to right) Prof Nenad Medvidovic (Co-chair, ICSE 2014), Prof André van der Hoek (Co-chair, ICSE 2014), Prof Chang Xu, Mr Yepang Liu, Prof S.C. Cheung, and Prof Lionel Briand (Co-chair, ICSE 2014)