Lin Tan
Lin Tan @ Purdue University
Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Professor
IEEE Fellow, ELATES Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Address: 305 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-494-7190
Fax: 765-494-0739
Email: lintan at purdue.edu
Bio: [bio]
       
Research Interests:

Software-AI synergy; LLM4Code; Agentic AI; Software dependability; Software engineering; Defect detection and repair; Autoformalization; Software text analytics; Application of machine learning and natural language processing

My Lab: ASSET Research Lab

Preprints: Google Scholar

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications: (For a full list, click here)
ICSE-26

Unified Software Engineering Agent as AI Software Engineer. Leonhard Applis, Yuntong Zhang, Shanchao Liang, Nan Jiang, Lin Tan, and Abhik Roychoudhury. [Preprint] Acceptance Rate: 24% (160/660)

EuroSys-26

CSnake: Detecting Self-Sustaining Cascading Failure via Causal Stitching of Fault Propagations. Shangshu Qian, Lin Tan, and Yongle Zhang. Acceptance Rate: (79/467) 16.9%.

NeurIPS-25

CoRe: Benchmarking LLMs' Code Reasoning Capabilities through Static Analysis Tasks. Danning Xie, Mingwei Zheng, Xuwei Liu, Jiannan Wang, Chengpeng Wang, Lin Tan, and Xiangyu Zhang. (Spotlight) [Preprint] Acceptance Rate: 2.8% (56/1,997) for Spotlight; 24.9% (497/1,995) for the Track.

ACL-25

Can Language Models Replace Programmers for Coding? RepoCod Says 'Not Yet'. Shanchao Liang, Yiran Hu, Nan Jiang, and Lin Tan.

ACL-25

WAFFLE: Webpage Multi-Modal Model for Automated Front-End Development. Shanchao Liang, Nan Jiang, Shangshu Qian, and Lin Tan.

IEEE Security & Privacy-25
(Magazine)

Challenges to Using Large Language Models in Code Generation and Repair. Liliana Pasquale, Antonino Sabetta, Marcelo d'Amorim, Péter Hegedüs, Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli, Hamed Okhravi, Mathias Payer, Awais Rashid, Joanna C. S. Santos, Jonathan M. Spring, Lin Tan, and Katja Tuma.

ICRA-25

SELP: Generating Safe and Efficient Task Plans for Robot Agents with Large Language Models. Yi Wu, Zikang Xiong, Yiran Hu, Shreyash Iyengar, Nan Jiang, Aniket Bera, Lin Tan, and Suresh Jagannathan. Best Paper Award Finalist!

ICSE-25/TSE
(Journal First)

D3: Differential Testing of Distributed Deep Learning with Model Generation. Jiannan Wang, Hung Viet Pham, Qi Li, Lin Tan, Yu Guo, Adnan Aziz, and Erik Meijer.

ICLR-25

Nova: Generative Language Models for Assembly Code with Hierarchical Attention and Contrastive Learning. Nan Jiang, Chengxiao Wang, Kevin Liu, Xiangzhe Xu, Lin Tan, Xiangyu Zhang, and Petr Babkin. Acceptance Rate: 32.1% [Model]

OOPSLA-25

Show Me Why It's Correct: Saving 1/3 of Debugging Time in Program Repair with Interactive Runtime Comparison. Ruixin Wang, Zhongkai Zhao, Le Fang, Nan Jiang, Yiling Lou, Lin Tan, and Tianyi Zhang.

SANER-25

How Effective are Large Language Models in Generating Software Specifications? Danning Xie, Byoungwoo Yoo, Nan Jiang, Mijung Kim, Lin Tan, Xiangyu Zhang, and Judy Lee Acceptance Rate: 23% (52/225)

AAAI-25

LATTE: Improving Latex Recognition for Tables and Formulae with Iterative Refinement. Nan Jiang, Shanchao Liang, Chengxiao Wang, Jiannan Wang, and Lin Tan. Acceptance Rate: 23.4% [Data] [Poster]

NDSS-25

Unleashing the Power of Generative Model in Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary. Xiangzhe Xu, Zhuo Zhang, Zian Su, Ziyang Huang, Shiwei Feng, Yapeng Ye, Nan Jiang, Danning Xie, Siyuan Cheng, Lin Tan, and Xiangyu Zhang.


Selected Awards and Recognitions:
2026-2014 - Press Coverage: IEEE Fellow, Building Sustainable Partnerships, Purdue CS News (ICRA25 Best Paper Award Finalist), Purdue CS News (University Faculty Scholar), Purdue CS News (CCS24 Best Paper Award), Purdue Science News (ELATES Fellow), Purdue CS News (AAAI23 papers), U of Illinois CS News (Alumni Awards), ACM News (Distinguished Scientists), Purdue CS News (ACM Distinguished Scientist), Purdue CS News (Alumni Award), Purdue News (Named Professorship), Purdue CS News (Named Professorship), Purdue CS News (Distinguished Paper Award), UWaterloo Cheriton CS News (Distinguished Paper Award), Purdue CS News (Facebook Award), Engineering Dimensions (Page 42), The Record (Pages 46 & 47), Marketwired, UWaterloo News (Google Award)
2026 - IEEE Fellow
- Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award ICSE ("awarded to author(s) of the paper from the ICSE conference of 10 years ago that is judged to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering during the 10 years since its original publication.") Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction.
- Most Influential SEIP Paper (MISP) Award ICSE ("This award recognizes significant and long lasting impact that our Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track paper has on the software engineering community.") Online Defect Prediction for Imbalanced Data.
2025 - Best Paper Award Finalist, ICRA
2024 - ELATES Fellow
- ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Paper Award, CCS
2022 - J.P. Morgan AI Faculty Research Award (1 of 9 recipients worldwide in "AI to Empower Employees")
2021 - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Academic Achievement Alumni Award
- J.P. Morgan AI Faculty Research Award (1 of 7 recipients worldwide in "Establish Ethical and Socially Good AI")
2020 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE
- J.P. Morgan AI Faculty Research Award (1 of 5 recipients worldwide in "Establish Ethical and Socially Good AI")
- Meta/Facebook Research Award - Probability and Programming 2020 (1 of 19 recipients worldwide)
2019 - Meta/Facebook Research Award - Probability and Programming (1 of 10 recipients worldwide)
2018 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, MSR
2017 - Canada Research Chair (CRC)
2016 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, FSE
- Ontario Professional Engineers - Engineering Medal for Young Engineer
- University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
2015 - Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award (One of 125 researchers chosen from 3,159 NSERC Discovery Grant applicants across all science and engineering fields)
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IBM CAS Research Project of the Year Award
2014 - Google Faculty Research Award (1 of 7 recipients worldwide in Software Engineering)
2010 - Google Faculty Research Award (1 of 4 recipients worldwide in Software Engineering)
2008 - IBM PhD Fellowship
2006 - IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences


Recent Professional Service:
2026: LLM4Code'26 Co-Founder & Co-Chair
SIGSOFT Impact paper Award 2026
2025: ICSE'25 Area Co-Chair
SIGSOFT Senior Awards (Research, Service, and Educator) 2025
LLM4Code'25 Co-Founder & Co-Chair
2024: FSE'24 Program Co-Chair
LLM4Code'24 Co-Founder & Co-Chair
2021-2024: ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee: Member-at-Large
2023: ICSE'23 PC
2017-2022: Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Associate Editor
2022: FSE'22 PC
2015-2021: Empirical Software Engineering Journal Editor
2021: ASPLOS'21 PC; ISSTA'21 PC