Zijiang James Yang Professor Software Engineering Lab Director Undergraduate Director Department of Computer Science College of Engineering and Applied Science Western Michigan University Office: Parkview Campus B-242 Address: 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5466 Phone: (269) 276-3114 Fax: (269) 276-3122 Email: zijiang.yang @ wmich . edu

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Selected publication since 2015 (full list): My research is in the broad areas of software engineering and formal methods. The primary focus is to develop formal method based tools to support the debugging, analysis and verification of complex systems.

• Concurrent software testing
  
• [FSE17:BIB][LCPC17:BIB][ICST17:BIB][ASE16:BIB]
• Fault localization and defect prediction
  
• [ICSE18:BIB[JSS18:BIB]][ISSRE17:BIB][JSS17:BIB][ICSE17:BIB][ISSRE16:BIB][ICSE15:BIB][TODAES15:BIB]
• Software plagiarism detection
  
• [TSE17:BIB][JSS16:BIB][TSE15:BIB]
• Symbolic Execution 
• [TSE18:BIB][TSE17:BIB][FSE15:BIB][ICST15:BIB]
• GUI testing 
• [ASE17:BIB][ASE16:BIB]
• Software maintanance
  
• [SANER17:BIB][TFS16:BIB][JSS15:BIB][JCS15:BIB]
  

Current Ph.D. Students:

• Jialiang Chang, Lin Cheng, Yu Guo, Hao Li, David Rodriguez Velazquez

Recent Services:

• ICST'19 General co-chair: Poster
  
• SETTA'18 PC co-chair, part of CONFESTA (includes  CONCUR, FORMATS, QEST and SETTA)
• NASAC'18 Safety and Security of System Software TRel Special Track co-chair. CFP
  
• Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Reliability Special Section on Safety and Security of System Software. CFP
• PC member: ICST'17, ICFEM'17, ICST'18, SATE'18, COMPSAC'18 SETA, ICFEM'18
• SEWORLD Mailing List co-moderator

Best Paper Awards:

• 2018 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• 2008 ACM TODAES Best Paper Award
  

Visits since 8/15/2015:

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Last update on: January 3, 2018.