Conference Best Paper



Guoqing Xu(CSE PhD candidate) and Atanas Rountev (CSE Faculty and Xu's advisor) were awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE Best Paper Award) for their work Precise Memory Leak Detection for Java Software using Container Profiling at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008).

Guoqing, known as Harry, started with OSU-CSE in 2005. His primary research interests are static and dynamic program analyses for compiler optimizations and software engineering tasks; more generally, he is interested in approaches to help programmers write and maintain reliable and reusable software. This summer, Harry is an intern with the Dynamic Optimization Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He received both MS and BS with distinction degrees in Computer Science from East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China.

Dr. Rountev joined OSU-CSE in 2002 and recently earned an NSF CAREER Award (2007). His research interests are in software engineering and programming languages, and specifically in static and dynamic program analysis, component-based software, parallel and distributed software, high-performance computing, software understanding and evolution, and software testing. Prior to his arrival in Columbus, he received his PhD and Masters degrees from Rutgers University.

The International Conference on Software Engineering (http://www.icse-conferences.org) is the flagship software engineering conference co-sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering. The acceptance rate for this year's ICSE was 15%.