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Lin Tan

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Adjunct Associate ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo

Lin Tan

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (11 NSERC, 2 ONTARIO), most recently in 2018.

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Research

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Latest funding

Software Dependability for 5G Systems
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$546,000
Research Infrastructure for Improving Software Dependability
ONTARIO · 2018 · Principal investigator
$50,000
Deep defect and vulnerability prediction
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$125,000

All 15 grants and awards

Software Dependability for 5G Systems

Co-investigatorNSERC2018Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Tripunitara, Mahesh MV

$546,000

Research Infrastructure for Improving Software Dependability

Principal investigatorONTARIO2018Ontario Research Fund - Research Infrastructure: Small Infrastructure Fund - Round 040 - 2017 - June

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$50,000

Deep defect and vulnerability prediction

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Idea to Innovation

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$125,000

IDE-assisted learning (IDEAL): helping developers to solve their ""now problems"" now

Co-investigatorNSERC2017Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Godfrey, Michael

$76,924

Software Dependability

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$175,000

History-Based Automated Program Repair

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$120,000

Leveraging text analytics to improve software testing

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$119,696

History-Based Automated Program Repair

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$215,000

Document-Assisted Automated Software Testing

Principal investigatorONTARIO2015Early Researcher Awards: Early Researcher Awards - Round 010

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

Keywords: Software Development, Automated Software Testing, Software Bug Detection, Symbolic Execution, Software Quality, Programming Productivity, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

$140,000

Personalized defect prediction in practice

Principal investigatorNSERC2014Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Tan, Lin

$25,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.

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