Taking a multidisciplinary technique

Professor Lo is enthusiastic about multidisciplinary work along with his SMU colleagues. "except colleagues who specialize in similar research areas, I collaborate with many different colleagues throughout the 5 research areas on the college of information systems," he says. "i've benefitted from their numerous know-how to remedy challenges that I otherwise couldn't have solved on my own, and to spot possibilities that I otherwise would now not have observed. those collaborations have resulted in many pieces of work that have been posted in diverse international conferences and journals."

Professor Lo is likewise hoping to be worried in destiny collaborations with colleagues from other schools at SMU. "I strongly agree with a multidisciplinary approach will result in holistic research works that expand frontiers of studies in new and thrilling instructions," he says.

For instance, he's presently searching at approaches to optimise cooperative workflows in software program organisations and in open supply teams. A challenge of this type might require understanding from diverse fields inclusive of organisational behaviour, psychology and organization behaviour, empirical evaluation, carried out facts, and game theory. Professor Lo also plans to take a look at the problem-solving and mental venture approaches that software program builders undergo. This task would enjoy the expertise of his colleagues from the school of Social Sciences in psychology, he says.

Apart from his studies tasks, Professor Lo enjoys coaching an expansion of undergraduate and postgraduate software engineering guides at SMU. He supervises undergraduate tasks that require groups of students to increase software program solutions for real clients, and also works closely with SMU PhD applicants to convey his studies thoughts to fruition.

"SMU gives a whole lot of support for school individuals to do research, for instance, tour presents to present papers at conferences; travelling professors; and hardware help are a number of the matters that SMU gives to facilitate studies activities. "also, the workplace of studies has provided a whole lot help for research grant submissions, and the SMU library has supplied much assist in securing more visibility for my paintings."

One in every of Professor Lo's research ambitions is to increase a web-scale software program analytics answer. With internet-scale software analytics, huge quantities of passive software information buried in myriads of assorted on-line repositories may be analysed to transform manual, painstaking and blunders-susceptible software engineering tasks to automatic activities that can be performed efficiently with high satisfactory. this is executed by harvesting the information of the masses, gathered through years of development efforts by means of heaps of builders which can be hidden in those passive, dispensed and assorted statistics sources. "I strongly trust this could be ground-breaking due to the fact no existing software evaluation method has come near making feel of software engineering facts at this scale and diversity in a holistic manner," says Professor Lo.