Computer science and engineering graduate student receives distinguished paper award
Sept 23, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Xiaodong Jia, a Penn State doctoral student in computer science and engineering, received a distinguished paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery Program Language Design and Implementation 2024 conference. The paper, “V-Star: Learning Visibly Pushdown Grammars from Program Inputs,” was co-authored by Jia’s adviser, Gang “Gary” Tan, Penn State professor of computer science and engineering who is also an Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hire. According to Tan, the paper was one of three selected from about 400 submissions to receive this award.