Received Distinguished Reviewer Award at ICPC’25 (May 2025)
Paper on ML/AI Supply Chain in Hugging Face accepted at TOSEM (Oct 2025)
Paper on Bug-Report-Based Test Oracle Generation accepted at ASE’25 (Aug 2025)
Tool demo paper on GUI-based Bug Localization accepted at ICSME’25 (July 2025)
Paper on Copyright Issues of Generative AI in Software Development accepted at TOSEM (May 2025)
Mentored students who received awards including W&M’s Northrop-Grumman Research Excellence Award, Charles Center Summer Research Grant, and 2025 International Student Achievement Award
Background
Associate Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary
Leads the Software Evolution and Analysis (SEA) Lab
Research interests include software maintenance & evolution, program comprehension, refactoring, software quality, developers’ productivity, text analysis in software engineering, software supply chain management, and legal aspects of SE
Current research focuses on: automated bug report management, verification-guided code refactoring and comprehension, informed decision making for software change, and software licensing & supply chain management
Employs empirical methods and leverages diverse software artifacts; integrates techniques from program analysis, MSR, IR, NLP, CV, and ML/DL