时间：2014 年 6 月 18 日（周三）上午 9:30-11:00地点：软件楼第二会议室主讲人：Tao XieDepartment of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA联系人：彭鑫（pengxin@fudan.edu.cn)Abstract：Mobile apps are accompanied by a rich amount of natural language text: app descriptions, app user reviews, update/release notes, etc. Such natural language text is essential in conveying important information about the apps (such as expected functionalities) and such information is not easily attainable from other structured information of the apps (such as app source or binary code, execution traces). Given the overwhelming amount of available natural language text, there is a high demand of text analytics including natural language processing (NLP) and text mining techniques to automatically analyze the natural language text to improve mobile app security. The history of applying NLP and text mining techniques to analyze software artifacts can date back to about a decade ago. Only till recently, text analytics for software artifacts such as mobile app artifacts has become an emerging research area in the security community. This talk presents recent work on automated analysis of natural language text for improving mobile app security, and software security in general.Bio：Tao Xie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. Before that, he received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2002, an M.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2000, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University in 1997. He has worked as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond and Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests are in software engineering, focusing on software testing, program analysis, and software analytics. He has served as the ACM SIGSOFT History Liaison in the SIGSOFT Executive Committee as well as a member of the ACM History Committee (ACM History SGB Liaison). He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. He received a 2011 Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Award, 2008, 2009, and 2010 IBM Faculty Awards, and a 2008 IBM Jazz Innovation Award. He is the Program Chair of 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). His homepage is at http://www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/taoxie/.
