| Associate Professor, PEng Electrical and Computer Engineering Cross-appointed with the School of Computer Science University of Waterloo |
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| Address: |
200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Canada |
| Phone: | (519) 888-4567 extension 35222 |
| Fax: | (519) 746-3077 |
| Email: | lintan at uwaterloo.ca |
Lin is on the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal.
Lin is a program co-chair of ICSE 2017 NIER and MSR'17.
Lin is on the PC of ICSE'17 and ICSE'18.
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Research Interests:
Software engineering; Software reliability; Comment analysis; Text analytics; Focusing on using interdisciplinary techniques such as natural language processing, machine learning, and program analysis to improve system reliability
Recent Publications:
(For a full list, click here)
Selected Awards and Recognitions:
Ontario Professional Engineers Awards --- Engineering Medal for Young Engineer Award 2016
University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award 2016
Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA) 2015
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award 2015
(One of 125 researchers chosen from 3,159 NSERC Discovery Grant applicants across all science and engineering fields)
IBM CAS Research Project of the Year Award 2015
Press: The Record's Technology Spotlight (Pages 46 & 47), Marketwired, UWaterloo News, Engineering Annual Report (2014-2010)
Google Faculty Research Award 2014 (1 of 7 recipients worldwide in Software Engineering)
Distinguished Paper Award Nominee, IEEE/ACM ASE 2013
Google Faculty Research Award 2010 (1 of 4 recipients worldwide in Software Engineering)
Best Paper Award Nominee, ACM ASPLOS 2010
IBM PhD Fellowship 2008-2009
IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences 2006
Recent Professional Service:
| 2015-Present: |
Empirical Software Engineering Journal Editor International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Steering Committee Member |
| 2018: | ICSE'18 PC |
| 2017: | MSR'17 Program Co-Chair, ICSE'17 NIER (New Ideas and Emerging Results) Program Co-Chair
ICSE'17 PC |
| 2016: | ICST'16 PC, SANER'16 (WCRE&CSMR) PC, APSys'16 PC, 2016 TSE reviewer, 2016 EMSE reviewer |
| 2015: |
ICSME'15 ERA Track Program Co-Chair,
CASCON Workshop on Application Security Co-Chair
ASE'15 PC, ICSME'15 PC, ICST'15 PC, MSR'15 (Co-located with ICSE'15) PC, SANER'15 (WCRE&CSMR) PC, 2015 TSE reviewer, 2015 EMSE reviewer, 2015 AUSE reviewer, 2015 SQJO reviewer |
| 2014: | IEEE TSE Editor-in-Chief search Committee 2014, ICSE'14 PC, ASE'14 PC, ICSME'14 PC, ICST'14 PC, MSR'14 (Co-located with ICSE'14) PC, FSE'14 Doctoral Symposium Panel, FSE'14 SRC Committee; SoftwareMining'14 PC; 2014 TSE reviewer, 2014 TOSEM reviewer, 2014 IEEE Software reviewer, 2014 EMSE reviewer, 2014 STVR reviewer, 2014 ToR reviewer |
Research Funding (Sole PI unless noted otherwise):
NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant 2015 - 2018
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award 2015 - 2018
NSERC Discovery Grants ($43,000 per year) 2015 - 2020
Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA) 2015 - 2020
IBM CAS Research Fellowship Project 2014 - 2017
Google Faculty Research Award 2014
NSERC Engage Grant 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014
Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE) Grant 2012 - 2015 (Co-PI)
OCE Technical Problem Solving (TPS) [now renamed to Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP)] Grant 2013
NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant 2011 - 2014
Google Faculty Research Award 2010
NSERC Discovery Grants 2010 - 2015
University of Waterloo Startup Grant
For supporting undergraduate students: MITACS Gloablink, NSERC USRA, CREUC
Education:
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University