Zhendong Su
(high-def photo; short
bio; 2-page short
CV; full CV) is a full professor in
the Department of Computer
Science at ETH Zurich
since August 2018. He is also an adjunct professor
at UC Davis, where he had been a full
professor in Computer
Science and a
Chancellor's Fellow.
He joined the UC
Davis faculty in January 2003 after receiving his
Ph.D. in Computer Science (with
minor in Mathematics)
from UC Berkeley. He received
a B.S. in Computer Science
and a B.A. in Mathematics
from UT Austin in 1995.
His research spans programming languages and compilers, software
engineering, computer security, deep learning and education
technologies. His work has received an ACM
SIGSOFT Impact
Paper Award, a Google Scholar Classic Paper (2017) Award,
best/distinguished paper awards at top venues (PLDI, OOPSLA, EAPLS,
TACAS, ISSTA, ICSE x 2), an ACM CACM Research Highlight,
an NSF
CAREER Award, a UC Davis Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award,
and multiple industrial faculty awards (Cisco, Google x 2, Huawei, IBM,
Microsoft, Mozilla).
He serves on the steering committees
of ISSTA
and ESEC/FSE,
served as an Associate Editor for ACM
TOSEM,
co-chaired SAS 2009,
program chaired ISSTA
2012, and program
co-chaired SIGSOFT FSE
2016. He frequently serves on program committees of major venues
(such as ICSE, FSE, ISSTA, PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA, and CAV).
His PhD/postdoctoral students also received much recognition,
including a
SIGSOFT Impact
Paper Award, a
SIGSOFT Outstanding
Dissertation Award and a UC
Davis Zuhair
A. Munir Best Dissertation Award; they assumed tenure-track
positions at major research universities
(e.g., Singapore
Management University, University
College London, Georgia
Tech, Waterloo),
R&D positions at major companies (e.g., Google, Facebook, Microsoft,
Tencent,
and Visa Research), and
scientific/technical leadership positions at successful early-stage
companies (e.g., Viv Labs).
Spring 2019 teaching: Rigorous Software Engineering
