The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Lin Tan

Lin Tan

Title

Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Professor of Data Science & Professor of Computer Science 

Department

Office

LWSN 3154M 

Office Phone

765-494-7190  

Email

lintan@purdue.edu 

URL

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/faculty/lintan.html 

Vita

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lintan/ 

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science
BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University 

Research Areas

software engineering, software dependability, defect detection and repair, and software text analytics 

Notable Awards

Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award [2019]

Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Associate Professor [2020]

J.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Award [2020]

Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award [2020]

Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [2021]

Distinguished Member ACM [2021] 

Biography

Lin Tan's research interests include software engineering, software dependability, defect detection and repair, and software text analytics. One of her research focuses is on leveraging machine learning and natural language processing techniques to improve software dependability and using software engineering approaches to improve the dependability of machine learning software. Prior to joining Purdue, she was a Canada Research Chair and an associate professor at the University of Waterloo.