Professor Li Xiaohong's team from the College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, received the ASE 2023 Distinguished Paper Award (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award) with the paper titled "EndWatch: A Practical Method for Detecting Non-Termination in Real-World Software" on the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023) in September.

This work was a collaborative effort between Tianjin University, Singapore Management University, and Nanyang Technological University. The first author of the paper is Ph.D. student Zhang Yao, supervised by Associate Professor Xie Xiaofei from Singapore Management University, Associate Professor Li Yi from Nanyang Technological University, Associate Professor Chen Sen from Tianjin University, Dr. Zhang Cen from Nanyang Technological University, and the project leader, Professor Li Xiaohong from Tianjin University.

The ASE conference, jointly organized by Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the internationally renowned conferences in the field of software engineering. It is classified as a Category A conference (CCF A) recommended by China Computer Federation , focusing on software engineering, system software, and programming languages. The main objective of the ASE conference is to promote research and development in the field of automated software engineering, including but not limited to technologies and methods in automated testing, validation, analysis, construction, and deployment. The conference, dating back to 1986, addresses how to enhance the efficiency, quality, and reliability of software engineering processes.

In this edition of ASE, a total of 661 papers were submitted, with 134 ultimately accepted. Among them, 31 papers received conditional acceptance, resulting in an acceptance rate of approximately 20.2%.

By College of Intelligence and Computing

Editors: Sun Xiaofang and Shen Jiaying