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	W. Eric Wong Professor & Director of International Outreach ECSS 3.224 Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083 Voice: (972) 883-6619 Fax: (972) 883-2399 Email: ewong@utdallas.edu

Biography

W. Eric Wong received his B.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He also received a certificate from the Georgia Tech Mid-Management Certified Program in 2001. In addition, he was a member of the Telcordia PDP Class of 2000, a two-year leadership development program offered to a limited number of selected employees of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore or Bell Communications Research).

Currently, Dr. Wong is a Professor and Director of International Outreach in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the Group Leader for the Software Engineering Group. He also has an appointment as a Guest Researcher from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Before joining UTD in 2002, he was with Telcordia Technologies as a Senior Research Scientist in Applied Research and a project manager under the Horizon Research Program. Dr. Wong is the Vice President of the IEEE Reliability Society and the Secretary of the ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing). He is also the founder and Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE - formerly SSIRI).

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Award

	A Family of Code Coverage-based Heuristics for Effective Fault Localization Top Cited Article from 2010 Journal of Systems and software
	1997 Quality Assurance Special Achievement Award Johnson Space Center NASA
	Best Paper Award The 26th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2011)
	Best Paper Award The 31st IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007)


	Certificate of Appreciation for Industry-Academia Education Tektronix Communications (May 2009)
	Outstanding Service Award Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas (December 2009)
	Outstanding Service Award IEEE Reliability Society (May 2011)

Research

Funding

Publication

Activity

Teaching

About My Research

Reducing the cost of software production and improving software dependability, reliability, safety, and quality at the same time.
Research interests can be divided into the following two major areas
- Program-Based Testing, Debugging, Reliability, Safety, and Analysis
- Architecture/Design-Based Testing, Debugging, Metrics, and Analysis

Research Funding

After 2002

Selected Journal/Conference Publications

Journal (posted at the University of Texas at Dallas)
Conference (after 2002) (posted at the University of Texas at Dallas)
Conference (before 2002) (Posted at Applied Research, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore))
Recent Technical Reports (posted at the University of Texas at Dallas)

Recent Professional Activities

ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing), Secretary (2009-2013) [here]

Special Committee
- Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Reliability Society (2008-2013) [here]
- Member of IBM System z Curriculum Advisory Panel
Journal Editorial Board

Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier) [here]
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific) [here]
Journal of Internet Services and Applications (Springer) [here]
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (Springer) [here]
Advances in Software Engineering [here]
Journal Guest Editor

A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) on Dynamic Analysis and Testing of Embedded Software Volume 85, Issue 1, January 2012
A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) on Software Risk Assessment Volume 21, Issue 2, March 2011
A special section of the Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST) on Techniques for Developing Dependable Software Volume 53, Issue 4, April 2011
A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) on invited papers from top scholars Volume 83, Issue 1, January 2010
A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) for QSIC 2007 on Quality Software Volume 82, Issue 9, September 2009
A special section of the Software Quality Journal (SQJ) on Emerging Technologies for Improving Software Quality, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2008
A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) on Model-Based Software Testing Volume 81, Issue 2, February 2008
A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) for The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2007
A special issue of the Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE) on Developing Trustworthy Software Systems, Volume 36, Issue 9, July 2006
A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) on Aspect-Oriented Software Design, Volume 16, Number 3, June 2006
A special issue of the Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE) on Enhancing Network Applications, Volume 33, Issue 14, November 2003
A special issue of the Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability (STVR) on Mutation Testing (Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2001)
Steering Committee

IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI)
IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
IEEE International Workshop on the Automation of Software Test (AST)
General Chair

ISSRE 2012 - The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Dallas, Texas, November 27-30, 2012
SSIRI 2009 - The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement, Shanghai, China, July 8-10, 2009
ACM SAC 2011 (Conference Vice Chair) - The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011
ICCCN 2003 - The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Dallas, Texas, October 20-22, 2003
Program Chair

COMPSAC 2010 - The 34th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 19-23, 2010
SSIRI 2008 - The Second IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement, Yokohama, Japan, July 15-17, 2008
ACM SAC-SE 2010 - The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Sierre, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010
ACM SAC-SE 2009 - The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009
ACM SAC-SE 2008 - The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008
ACM SAC-SE 2007 - The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Seoul, Korea, March 11 - 15, 2007
QSIC 2007 - The Seventh International Conference on Quality Software, Portland, Oregon, October 11-12, 2007
AST 2008 - The Third IEEE International Workshop on Automation of Software Testing, Leipzig, Germany, May 11 May 2008
AST 2007 - The Second IEEE International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 26, 2007
IWSC 2007 - The Fourth International Workshop on Software Cybernetics, Beijing, China, July 24, 2007
IWSC 2006 - The Third International Workshop on Software Cybernetics, Chicago, Illinois, September 18-21, 2006
Mutation 2006 - The Second Mutation Analysis Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 6-10, 2006
ISSRE 2005 - The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, November 8-11, 2005
SEKE 2005 - The 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, July 14-16, 2005
TQACBS 2005 - The 2nd International Workshop on Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Systems (in conjunction with COMPSAC 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26-28, 2005
COMPSAC 2004 - The 28th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Hong Kong, September 28-30, 2004
ICCCN 2002 - The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Miami, Florida, October 14-16, 2002
Mutation 2000 - A Symposium on Mutation Testing in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries, San Jose, California, October 6-7, 2000
PC Member

IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)
IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE)
IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI)
IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC - SE Track)
International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC)
International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP)
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE)
IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)
IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS)
IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS)
IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS)
ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)
Selected Tutorials

Testing and Maintaining Your Software in a More Cost-Effective Way
The 8th Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering (ASSE'07)
Mar del Plata, Argentina, August 29, 2007
Tool Development for Cost Effective Software Testing and Maintenance
Chinese Software Industry Association
Beijing, China, July 7-8, 2006
Effective Software Testing in Practice
Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, Texas, May 13-14, 2002
A Quantitative Risk Assessment Model For Software Quality, Testing and Safety
Quality Week Europe, Brussels, Belgium, November 2000
Invited Talks

Recent Catastrophic Accidents: Is Software to Blame?

National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China, July 2010
Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 2010

Reducing the Cost of Debugging via Effective Fault Localization

Dakota State University, South Dakota, USA, August 2009

Software Safety Analysis: An Integrated Approach

Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, May 2009

Effective Fault Localization using an RBF Neural Network

Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, December 2008

EFSM-based Automatic Test Generation

Ewha Woman.s University, Seoul, Korea, December 2008

Cost Effectively Testing and Maintaining Software

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, Texas, January 2008
Raytheon Network Centric Systems, Plano, Texas, August 2008

Testing for Software Safety

Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan, January 2008

Effectively Locating Bugs in Your Software

University of Singapore, Singapore, April 2008
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, May 2008

Identify Fault-Prone Software Modules in Telecommunications Systems

Motorola 2006 System, Software and Simulation Symposium
Chicago, Illinois, September 2006

Coverage Testing and Debugging Your SDL Design Specifications in a Cost Effective Way

Software and System Engineering Research Laboratory, Motorola
Chicago, Illinois, October 2006

Reducing the Cost of Debugging via Effective Fault Localization

Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2007
Ewha Woman.s University, Seoul, Korea, July 2007
Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2007
Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2007
Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan, July 2007
Feng-Chia University, TaiChung, Taiwan, July 2007
National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, July 2007

eXVanatge: An Integrated Solution for Dependable Software Development

Avaya Labs Research
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, February 2006

Testing and Maintaining Your Software in a More Cost-Effective Way

Peking University, Beijing, China, July 2006
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, July 2006
Soochow University, Soochow, China, May 2006
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, May 2006
Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, China, May 2006
Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, November 2006

Testing and Diagnosis of Software Design Specifications

Department of Computer Science
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota, September 2005
Institute of Software
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China, June 2005

Department of Computer Science
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China, June 2005
Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Daejeon, Korea, December 2004
International Institute for Software Technology
United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macau, October 2004

Improving Software Quality by Effective Analysis of Defects

Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, March 2004

A Solution for Diagnosis and Testing of Software Design Specifications

Telelogic Americas 2002 User Group Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2002

Architectural Design-Based Assessment and Diagnosis

Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Arlington, October 2002

An Integrated Solution for Creating Dependable Software

Department of Automatic Control
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Beijing, China, June 2005
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Southeast University
Nanjing, China, June 2005
Department of Computer Science
National University of Defense Technology
Changsha, China, June 2005
General Dynamics
Groton, Connecticut, October 2001
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Seoul, Korea, June 2001
US-East Asia Workshop on Engineering Systems and Applications
(funded by US National Science Foundation), Vietnam, April 2000
Telecommunication Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan, April 2000
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsing-Chu, Taiwan, April 2000

Efficient Software Testing

International Institute for Software Technology
United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macau, October 2000

Program-Based Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance

Computer Science & Engineering Department
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2000

Teaching

CS6354 Advanced Software Engineering
CS5354 Software Engineering
CS5333 Discrete Structures
SE4485 Software Engineering Project
SE4367 Software Testing, Verification, Validation and Quality Assurance
CS2305 Discrete Math for Computing I
CS3305 Discrete Math for Computing II

Specil Links

2007 IEEE Reliability Society Annual Technology Report
2008 IEEE Reliability Society Annual Technology Report

W. Eric Wong and Vidroha Debroy, "Malicious Code," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 58, Number 2, Pages 249.251, June 2009

2009 IEEE Reliability Society Annual Technology Report

W. Eric Wong, Vidroha Debroy and Andrew Restrepo, "The Role of Software in Recent Catastrophic Accidents," IEEE Reliability Society 2009 Annual Technology Report, January 2010
W. Eric Wong and Vidroha Debroy "Software Fault Localization," IEEE Reliability Society 2009 Annual Technology Report, January 2010

W. Eric Wong and Vidroha Debroy, A Survey of Software Fault Localization Technical Report UTDCS-45-09, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA November 2009