Lin Tan
Biography
Lin Tan is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Tan serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2017-present) and as an Editor for the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal (2015-present). She has also been the program co-chair for MSR 2017, ICSE-NIER 2017, and ICSME-ERA 2015. Her co-authored papers have earned notable accolades, including the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2018, FSE 2016, and IEEE Micro's Top Picks in 2006.
Dr. Tan has received several prestigious awards, including the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the Ontario Professional Engineers Award — Engineering Medal for Young Engineer, the University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and the IBM CAS Research Project of the Year Award.
Dr. Tan serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2017-present) and as an Editor for the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal (2015-present). She has also been the program co-chair for MSR 2017, ICSE-NIER 2017, and ICSME-ERA 2015. Her co-authored papers have earned notable accolades, including the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2018, FSE 2016, and IEEE Micro's Top Picks in 2006.
Dr. Tan has received several prestigious awards, including the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the Ontario Professional Engineers Award — Engineering Medal for Young Engineer, the University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and the IBM CAS Research Project of the Year Award.
Research Interests
- Software engineering, Software reliability, Defect detection and repair
Industrial Research
Technology transfer: Pattern Matching Technique for High Throughput Network Processing.
U.S. Patent Application No. 60/779,734, filed on March 2006. Co-Inventor: Time Sherwood.
Pending Patent: Automatically Generating Test Cases for Binary Code. 2007 Co-Inventor: Madanlal Musuvathi
Awards
- 2006 IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences
Graduate studies
- Currently considering applications from graduate students. A completed online application is required for admission; start the application process now.