Xipeng Shen (Ph.D. 2006) has received this year's NSF CAREER (The Faculty Early Career Development) Award. According to NSF, the NSF CAREER is a program "that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars." The $420K grant will support a 5-year project title "Input-Centric Program Behavior Analysis and Adaptation." Program behavior analysis lies at the core of software-hardware symbiosis. The project aims to include program inputs---an important but so far virtually ignored dimension---into the focus of program behavior analysis, cultivating a new paradigm, namely input-centric program behavior analysis and adaptation.
Written by Chen Ding