{"id":1199,"date":"2026-03-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:49:10","slug":"congratulations-to-xiang-liao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Xiang Liao!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1547\" height=\"1005\" src=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis.png\" alt=\"DoppelTest among testing approaches for Baidu Apollo and Autoware, and its transfer to Autoware as DoppelTest4AW\" class=\"wp-image-1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis.png 1547w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xiang_Liao_Thesis-1536x998.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1547px) 100vw, 1547px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xiang Liao has successfully defended his master\u2019s thesis, entitled <em>Transferring a Software Testing Approach Across Autonomous Driving Software: A Case Study of DoppelTest and Autoware<\/em>, and completed his M.S. in Software Engineering at UC Irvine. His thesis adapts DoppelTest, our ICSE 2023 approach for testing autonomous driving systems, from Baidu Apollo to Autoware and shows that the adapted approach uncovers safety-critical failures in Autoware. After graduating, Xiang joined Alibaba as a software engineer. Many thanks to his committee members, Jim Jones and Sam Malek. Congratulations, Xiang!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiang Liao has successfully defended his master\u2019s thesis, entitled Transferring a Software Testing Approach Across Autonomous Driving Software: A Case Study of DoppelTest and Autoware, and completed his M.S. in Software Engineering at UC Irvine. His thesis adapts DoppelTest, our ICSE 2023 approach for testing autonomous driving systems, from Baidu Apollo to Autoware and shows&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1199\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Xiang Liao!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}