Nan Niu  

Assistant Professor       Box 9637   , MS 39762   Office:     Phone:   +1.662.325.7514   Fax:       +1.662.325.8997   E-mail:   niu@cse.msstate.edu   Ph.D. (2004-2009) )   M.Sc. (2001-2004) )   Programmer (1999-2001) , Beijing, China   B.Eng. (1995-1999) , Beijing, China

Research

My current research interests focus on the information seeking strategies that developers use in software development. My research group investigates how the task environment and the information environment re-shape developers' behaviors, or more accurately, how the developers' behaviors and their environments co-evolve, each shaping the other in important ways. Our new idea and emerging result are presented in ICSE 2011.

• Grants
• US National Science Foundation (NSF), SHF: EAGER: Clustering Programming Artifacts to Enrich Code Foraging Environment (PI: Nan Niu), $80,000, 2012-2014.
• US Department of Transportation (DOT), Decision Support Tools for Transportation Resilience and Security (PI: Mingzhou Jin, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University), $101,650 for Computer Science and Engineering (Co-PI: Nan Niu), 2010-2012.
• US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Flexible Semantic Merging of Multiple Versions and Variants of Software (PI: Nan Niu), $72,000, 2010-2012.
• Cross-disciplinary Research Facilitation Grant Program, Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED), Mississippi State University, Information Foraging in Software Maintenance (PIs: Nan Niu and Gary Bradshaw [Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University]), $4,000, 2011-2012.
• Schillig Special Teaching Award, Office of Academic Affairs, Mississippi State University, Integrating Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate Software Testing Course (PIs: Nan Niu, David Dampier [Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University] and Kui Xie [Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Mississippi State University]), $2,500, 2011-2012.
• US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), SERRI: Real-Time Identification and Monitoring of Barge-Carried Hazardous Commodities (PI: Mingzhou Jin, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University), $35,611 for Computer Science and Engineering (Co-PI: Nan Niu), 2011-2012.
• Students

Ph.D.	M.Sc.	Undergraduate
Anas Mahmoud	Fangbo Yang	(vacant)
Sandeep Reddivari	Brandon Rice
Tanmay Bhowmik

Teaching

• Current: (Spring 2012), (Spring 2012)
• Past: CSE3213 - Software Engineering Senior Project I (Fall 2011), CSE4/6283 - Software Testing and Quality Assurance (Spring 2011), CSE4/6214 - Introduction to Software Engineering (Fall 2010), CSE8990 - Software Reuse and Domain Engineering (Spring 2010), CSE8273 - Software Requirements Engineering (Fall 2011, Fall 2009), CSC309 - Programming on the Web (Fall 2008, Summer 2008)

Service

• Journal reviews for
  • REJ (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009), IET SW (2012, 2011, 2010), TII (2012, 2011), EIS (2012, 2010), IJTM (2012), SQJ (2011, 2010), JSS (2011, 2010), TOSEM (2011), EMSE (2011), SoSyM (2011), IJSAEM (2010)
• IEEE SMC Technical Committee Member on EIS (2010-Present)
• Conference organizing committees
  • General chair of
  • Workshops co-chair of
  • Publicity co-chair of
  • Publicity co-chair of
  • Posters and demos co-chair of
  • Program and organizing co-chair of
• Conference programming committee of
  • ACMSE.12, ASEE-SE.12, RCIS.12, SwECC@ASEE.12, REFS@COMPSAC.12, KOPLE@SPLC.12, MoDRE@RE.12, KEOD.12, WCSE.12, ICDKE.12
  • REFS@COMPSAC.11, SwECC@ASEE.11, IWSECO.11, RCIS.11, KOPLE@SPLC.11, MoDRE@RE.11, ICDKE.11, KEOD.11, HASE.11
  • WCSE.10, KEOD.10, KOPLE@SPLASH.10, ICDKE.10, RE Track@QUATIC.10, REFS@COMPSAC.10, ESCOT@AOSD.10
  • EA@AOSD.09, EA@AOSD.08
• University services
  • Graduate Studies Committee, CSE Dept., MSU (2009/10, 2010/11)
  • UofT: Member of the DCS Research Skills Committee (2007/08), DCS Graduate Admissions Committee ()