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 had been a full
professor in Computer
Science and a
Chancellor's Fellow at UC Davis until June 2019.
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. He is passionate about fundamental and practical innovations for building software. His work has received an ACM
SIGSOFT Impact
Paper Award (2018), an ICSE Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award (2022), a Google Scholar Classic Paper Award (2017),
best/distinguished paper awards at top venues (ASPLOS, SOSP, PLDI x 2, OOPSLA x 2,
EAPLS, TACAS, ISSTA x 2, ICSE x 2, ASE, SIGCSE, IEEE S&P), best/distinguished artifact awards at
top venues (ASPLOS x 2, OSDI, OOPSLA, PLDI), an ACM CACM Research Highlight,
an NSF
CAREER Award,
a UC
Davis Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award, and multiple
industrial faculty awards (Amazon, Cisco, eBPF Foundation, Google x 3, Huawei, IBM, Meta, Microsoft,
Mozilla).
He is a Member
of the Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.
He also participates in the ACM Distinguished Speaker program.
He served 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
an IEEE TCSE Rising Star Award,
a SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award,
an ICSE Most Influential Paper (MIP) 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.,
SMU,
UCL,
GaTech,
Waterloo,
SUNY Korea,
HKUST,
ECNU,
CUHKSZ,
NUS,
CityUHK,
CUHK,
Lboro,
Manchester),
R&D positions at major companies (e.g., Google, Facebook,
Uber,
Microsoft,
Nvidia,
Tencent,
and Visa Research), and
scientific/technical leadership positions at successful early-stage
companies (e.g., Viv Labs).
Spring 2025 teaching: Automated Software Testing, MSc SE Seminar