Xipeng Shen Designated the Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor
The Board of Visitors at its meeting on September 21, 2012, approved the recommendation of Provost Michael Halleran that Xipeng Shen be designated the Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science for a three-year term, effective with the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year.
Term distinguished professorships are designed to recognize and reward both excellence in research and a demonstrated commitment to teaching. The professorships are awarded for a single three-year term and are not renewable. For the duration of the term, the holder receives both a salary supplement and an annual research fund. Nominees are required to be tenured Associate Professors at the College of William & 玛丽 on the effective date of the appointment.
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In addition to his research, Xipeng teaches courses in compiler construction and compiler optimization and recently developed a popular special topics course on machine learning that made use of Lego Mindstorms. He also works successfully with a number of undergraduate and graduate research students. Yunlian Jiang (PhD '11), whom Xipeng advised, is now working at Google. Kai Tian (PhD '12), whom Xipeng advised, is now working at Microsoft. And Eddy Zhang (PhD '12), also advised by Xipeng, just started as a new faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University. And both Bo Wu, a doctoral student currently working on his dissertation under Xipeng's direction, and Yunlian Jiang were recipients of Research Fellowships from the IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS).
