Simon Xu
Professor
Computer Science
Algoma University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Simon Xu is a Full Professor in the Department of Math and Computer Science at Algoma University where he is faculty since 2002. He has been the department chair since 2009. Prior to that, he was working in the School of Computer Science of University of Windsor, Canada. He has also conducted the post-doctoral research in the University of Manitoba, Canada, for a few years. · He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University, USA, and a Ph.D. degree in Geology from the University of Liege, Belgium. · His current research interests are in Software Engineering, with focus on Software Evolution and Software Development. · He serves as program committee member to many conferences. He has also chaired 5 IEEE international conferences and been invited to give keynotes.
Research Interest
Software engineering and evolution, program analysis and understanding, cognitive models of software development processes.
Publications
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Liu, D. and Xu, S., 2011. An Empirical Study of Programming Performance Based on Keystroke Characteristics, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, pp. 59-72.
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Liu, D., Xu, S. and Du, W., 2011. A Case Study on Incremental Software Development. Proceedings of the 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Research, Management & Applications (SERA2011), Baltimore, USA, August 10-12, pp. 227-234.
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Xu, S., Du, W., and Roger, L. (Eds.), 2011. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2011), May 15-17, Sanya, Hainan, China, IEEE Computer Society, 423pp., ISBN: 978-0-7695-4401-4.
