I enjoy my journey as an educator. I have very strong passion in teaching. I give courses for both undergraduates and graduates. From Fall 2011 to Spring 2022, there have been over 2,600 PKU students taking my class room teaching in total. In 2019, I was awarded by the "Most Respected and Esteemed Teacher in Peking University", which is **VOTED** purely by the students out of all faculties in Peking University. What a moving honor! In 2021, I was recognized by the "Excellent Teaching Service Award" of Peking University, where only 5 awardees were recognized from all disciplines.
For undergraduates, I focus on how to build their computational thinking, consolidate the programming skills through practice, and increase their interests towards computer science.
For graduates, I provide strong emphasis on training their critical thinking and capabilities in conducting high-quality research, through organizing literature study and discussion, conducting extensive measurement of existing open-source systems, making some possible optimizations, and exploring real-wolrd practical problems from industry. I particularly focus on the classroom teaching art to increase the interactions with students and establish free and easy discussion atmosphere.
My coures are listed as follows:
Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (by Prof. Stephen C. Stearns )
How to Write a Good Research Paper (by Prof. Mary Shaw)
Common Advice on Writing Research Papers (by Prof. Tao Xie)
How/How Not to Write a Good System Paper (by Dr. Roy Levin and Dr. David D. Redell)
Preliminary Guidelines for Empirical Research in Software Engineering (by Prof. Barbara Kitchenham et al.)
Why I gave your paper a Strong Accept (by Matt Welsh )
Why I gave your paper a Strong Reject (by Matt Welsh)
You and Your Research (by Prof. Richard Hamming)
How to Give a Technical Presentation (by Prof. Michael Ernst )
Office:
Room 818, Yanyuan Building 1
Peking University
No. 5, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District
Beijing, China, 100871
Email:
xzl at pku dot edu dot cn
Telphone:
+86-10-62758707
Fax:
+86-10-62751792
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Acknowledgment:
When building my personal research portal, I appreciate the template maintained and optimized by my student, Miss Shuyu Zheng. Her expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript well fits the research areas of our lab:). Her excellent work makes everything easier.