AST 2018
13th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test
In Conjunction with ICSE 2018 (https://www.icse2018.org/)
Gothenburg, Sweden. May 28-29, 2018
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Hong Zhu, Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Title:
Software Testing as A Problem of Machine Learning: Towards a Foundation on Computational Learning Theory
Abstract:
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Prof. Hong Zhu is a full professor of computer science at the school of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, where he chairs the Applied Formal Methods Research Group. He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, in 1982, 1984 and 1987, respectively. He worked at Nanjing University from 1987 to 1998 before he joined Oxford Brookes University in November 1998 as a Senior Lecturer in Computing. He became a Professor of Computer Science in October 2004. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of British Computer Society, and ACM. His research interests are in the area of software development methodologies, foundation of software engineering, software design, modeling, software testing, Software-as-a-Service, etc. He has published 2 books and more than 190 research papers in journals and international conferences.
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Wei Xu, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Title:
Towards Software-defined and Self-Driving Cloud Infrastructure
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Wei Xu is an assistant professor and assistant dean at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) of Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also an associate director of the Tsinghua’s Institute of Financial Technology. His research interest is distributed system design and data science, especially their applications in financial technology. He has published 40+ research papers in leading venues. He received the National Youth 1000 Program award of China, faculty research awards from Google and IBM, graduate student advising award and top-performance employee award from Tsinghua. He received his B.S.E. from U Penn in 2003 and his master and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2010. Before Tsinghua, he worked for Google as a software engineer for 2.5 years.
