On February 26, the annual IEEE TCSE Awards were announced with Professor Li Li from the School of Software shortlisted in the 2024 IEEE TCSE Rising Star Award, an award honoring young researchers in the field of software engineering.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has 420,000 members from 175 countries currently. Every year, the IEEE TCSE Rising Star Award is granted to one candidate selected globally. Notably, Professor Li Li is the first Chinese to have received such an honor.

Professor Li joined the School of Software of Beihang University in 2023 and has attained the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award 2023 and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2020. He has been deeply involved in software engineering research for many years and has made groundbreaking contributions to mobile software engineering and intelligent software engineering, with some of his work being implemented by tech companies such as Huawei. He was once named one of the top three most influential young software engineering researchers in the world.

Written by: Qu Yue

Reviewed by: Lei Xiaofeng

Edited by: Jia Aiping

Translated by: Zhang Anqi