Xiangyu Zhang
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Phone:
765-496-9415
E-mail:
xyzhang at cs.purdue.edu
:
Post-doc opening
Education
PHD: 9/2006
Computer Science Dept.,
the University of Arizona
MS: 6/2000
Computer Science Dept.,
University of Science & Technology of China
BS: 6/1998
Computer Science Dept.,
University of Science & Technology of China
Awards
2009 NSF Career Award.
2006 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award.
2003 ICSE Distinguished Paper Award.
Projects and Fundings
My research interest mainly lies in program analysis, debugging, and security. The following lists the projects I am supervising and their sponsors.
Execution indexing and its application in debugging
Dynamic program slicing and information flow tracking
Better uncertain data processing via program analysis
Reverse engineering binary programs and its security applications
Debugging runtime failures in distributed systems
Miscellaneous
Publications
Full list
PhD Students
Advising:
Tao Bao
Dohyeong Kim
Kyu Hyung Lee
Vinai Sundaram
(co-advising with Patrick Eugster)
William N. Sumner
(
2010 Halstead Award
)
Yunhui Zheng
Fei Peng
Former students:
Dasarath Weeratunge
(co-advised with Suresh Jagannanthan, Intel Lab)
Zhiqiang Lin
(co-advised with Dongyan Xu, joined UT, Dallas)
Mingwu Zhang (Microsoft) (PhD, co-advised with Prof. Prabhakar)
Bin Xin (Google)
Teaching and Reading Group
CS510 Software Engineering
in spring 2013.
CS490 Software Testing
in fall 2012.
CS510 Software Engineering
in spring 2012.
CS490 Software Testing
in fall 2011.
CS352 Compilers: Principles and Practice
in spring 2011.
CS510 Software Engineering
in fall 2010.
CS510 Software Engineering
in spring 2010.
CS590 Advanced Software Testing and Debugging
in fall 2009.
CS352 Compilers: Principles and Practice
in spring 2009.
CS510 Software Engineering
in fall 2008.
Fault Localization and Program Analysis Reading Group
(spring 2008).
CS510 Software Engineering
in spring 2008.
CS590Z Software Defect Analysis
in fall 2007.
CS590F
in spring 2007.
Professional Activities
PC co-chair: WODA'11
Workshop co-chair: FSE'14 Doctoral Symposium, PLDI'12
PC member: RV'13, ICST'13, ASIACCS'13, APLAS'12, ETSE'12, FSE'12 tool track, OOPSLA'12, ISSTA'12, RV'11, ISSTA'10, ISSRE'09, PLDI'09, ISSTA'09, ICST'09, WODA'08, ICST'08.
ERC member: PLDI'12
Web/Publication Chair: LCTES'07.
Personal Interest
Soccer is my favorite. I still play twice a week (timestamp: 4/21/2011).