Biography:T.H. Tse

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T.H. Tse

MBE
Photo of T.H. Tse
OccupationHonorary Professor
Academic background
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Doctoral advisorFrank Land; Ian Angell
Academic work
DisciplineSoftware Engineering
InstitutionsThe University of Hong Kong
Websitehku.hk/thtse

T.H. Tse (Chinese: 謝俊謙) is a Hong Kong academic who is a professor and researcher in program testing and debugging. He is ranked internationally as the second most prolific author in metamorphic testing.[1] According to Bruel et al.,[2] "Research on integrated formal and informal techniques can trace its roots to the work of T.H. Tse in the mid-eighties." The application areas of his research include object-oriented software, services computing, pervasive computing, concurrent systems, imaging software, and numerical programs. In addition, he creates graphic designs for non-government organizations.[3]

Tse received the PhD from the London School of Economics in 1988 under the supervision of Frank Land and Ian Angell.[4] He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford in 1990 and 1992. He is currently an honorary professor in computer science at The University of Hong Kong after retiring from his full professorship in 2014. He was decorated with an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom .[5][6]:87

In 2013, an international event entitled "The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness" was held in Nanjing, China "in honor of the retirement of T.H. Tse".[7] The acronym of the symposium was "TSE-TH".

In 2017 to 2020, Tse served as the intermediary for the fundraising of $140 million for The University of Hong Kong to establish the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wings I and II in the Faculty of Engineering.[8][9]

In 2019, Tse and team applied metamorphic testing to verify the robustness of citation indexing services, including Scopus and Web of Science. The innovative method, known as "metamorphic robustness testing", revealed that the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of scholarly papers adversely affects citation counts and journal impact factors, regardless of the quality of the publications.[10][11] This "bizarre new finding",[12] as well as the refutation by Web of Science and the clarification by Tse, was reported in ScienceAlert,[13] Nature Index,[14] Communications of the ACM,[15] Psychology Today,[16] and The Australian.[17]

In 2021, Tse and team were selected as the Grand Champion of the Most Influential Paper Award[18] by the Journal of Systems and Software for their 2010 paper.[19] According to Google Scholar, the journal ranks no. 3 in h5-index among international publication venues in software systems.[20]

Handbook of Software Fault Localization: Foundations and Advances, Wiley-IEEE Press (2023). Credit: Cover Design by T.H. Tse.

Books

  • T.H. Tse, A Unifying Framework for Structured Analysis and Design Models: An Approach using Initial Algebra Semantics and Category Theory, Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 11, Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. Ebook edition (2010). Paperback edition (2009). Hardcover edition (1991).

Selected publications

References

  1. S. Segura, G. Fraser, A.B. Sanchez, and A. Ruiz-Cortés, "A survey on metamorphic testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 42 (9): 805-824 (2016). doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2016.2532875.
  2. J.-M. Bruel; B.H.C. Cheng; S. Easterbrook; R.B. France; B. Rumpe (1998). ""Integrating formal and informal specification techniques: Why? How?"". Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 50–57. doi:10.1109/WIFT.1998.766297. https://www.academia.edu/download/68761361/Integrating_formal_and_informal_specific20210815-20695-1s4ejot.pdf. 
  3. "Graphic designs by Prof. T.H. Tse". http://www.cs.hku.hk/~tse/logos.html. 
  4. T.H. Tse (1988). Towards a unifying framework for structured systems development models (PhD). London School of Economics.
  5. "Professor T.H. Tse". https://www.cs.hku.hk/index.php/people/academic-staff/tse. 
  6. "Board and Committees", Annual Report 2015/2016, The Community Chest of Hong Kong, 2016, https://www.commchest.org/file_manager/view/publication_en/annual_report/1516/68.pdf, retrieved 9 February 2021 
  7. "The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness". 2013. https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.cityu.edu.hk/tseth2013/home. 
  8. "Opening of Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing at HKU: A makerspace connecting cross-disciplinary students with innovative ideas and advanced technology". 1 December 2020. https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_22040.html. 
  9. "Deep roots for innovation: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing looks to the future". Summer 2018. http://www.daao.hku.hk/fbook/cnews/2018summer/full/38/#zoom=z. 
  10. Z.Q. Zhou; T.H. Tse; M. Witheridge (2021). "Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 47 (6): 1164–1183. doi:10.1109/TSE.2019.2915065. 
  11. Z.Q. Zhou; T.H. Tse; M. Witheridge (2020). ""An extended abstract of 'Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors' "". IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sklv2CoUgbk. 
  12. Dockrill, Peter (9 June 2019). "Study claims one punctuation mark has been skewing our scientific ranking system". https://www.sciencealert.com/hyphens-break-our-entire-system-of-scientific-ranking-new-analysis-reveals. 
  13. Ibid.
  14. Crew, Bec (7 August 2019). "Studies suggest 5 ways to increase citation counts". https://go.nature.com/2TdWoM6. 
  15. "A single punctuation mark has been skewing our entire system of scientific ranking". 10 June 2019. https://cacm.acm.org/news/237400-a-single-punctuation-mark-has-been-skewing-our-entire-system-of-scientific-ranking/fulltext. 
  16. Bergland, Christopher (3 June 2019). "One small hyphen in a title could diminish academic success". https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201906/one-small-hyphen-in-title-could-diminish-academic-success. 
  17. "Hyphens mess with research citations: Study". 5 June 2019. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/hyphens-mess-with-research-citations-study/news-story/944cdc838b1ca718c094b04e9b3c1671. 
  18. "Journal of Systems and Software: Grand Champion of Most Influential Paper Award". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPSJXBGVP3E. 
  19. T.Y. Chen; F.-C. Kuo; R.G. Merkel; T.H. Tse (2010). "Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity". Journal of Systems and Software 83 (1): 60–66. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022. 
  20. "Top Publications: Software Systems". https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_softwaresystems.