Biography:Lin Tan
Lin Tan is a Chinese computer scientist and software engineering researcher whose intererests include software reliability, the application of text analytics to comments in computer code, and AI-assisted software development. She works at Purdue University as Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Professor of Computer Science and as a Purdue University Faculty Scholar.[1]
Education and career
Tan has a 2003 bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with the dissertation Leveraging code comments to improve software reliability supervised by Yuanyuan Zhou.[2]
She held a Canada Research Chair as an associate professor at the University of Waterloo before moving the Purdue University in 2019.[1] She was given the Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers chair as an associate professor in 2020,[3] promoted to full professor in 2022,[4] and named as a University Faculty Scholar in 2025.[1]
Recognition
In 2021 the Siebler School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign gave Tan their Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award.[3] She was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to software text analytics, software-AI synergy, and software reliability".[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tan selected as a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University Department of Computer Science, April 16, 2025, https://www.cs.purdue.edu/news/articles/2025/tan-selected-as-a-purdue-university-faculty-scholar.html, retrieved 2026-01-30
- ↑ Tan, Lin (2009), Leveraging code comments to improve software reliability, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ProQuest 3395513
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lin Tan: 2021 Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Siebler School of Computing and Data Science, https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/about/awards/alumni-awards/alumni-awards-past-recipients/Lin-Tan, retrieved 2026-01-30
- ↑ "Faculty promotions at Purdue approved by board", Purdue Today (Purdue University), April 8, 2022, https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/purduetoday/releases/2022/Q2/faculty-promotions-at-purdue-approved-by-board.html, retrieved 2026-01-30
- ↑ IEEE Fellow Class of 2026, IEEE, https://ieee-org.widen.net/s/qqrqr2nrk6/fellow-class-announcement-2026, retrieved 2026-01-30
External links
- Home page
- Lin Tan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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