Biography

My research interests are in Software Engineering and Programming Languages, with a focus on improving software reliability through program analysis and systematic testing. Software bugs are expensive and inevitable as software is mostly written by humans or automatically synthesized via ML. My research focuses at developing practical methods to prevent, detect, and fix bugs and vulnerabilities in code. As part of my research, I develop tools to automate software testing and debugging activities

Here is a sample of topics to illustrate what kinds of themes my team currently works on:

  • Runtime Verification 
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment
    • detection and prevention of flaky tests
    • repair of configuration files (e.g., Puppet, Docker, Ansible)
  • Autonomous Driving Vehicles

Research Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents
  • Cyber Security
  • Data Sciences and Analytics
  • Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Education

PhD UIUC, 2007
MS UFPE, 2001
BA UFPE, 1996