Received multiple Distinguished Reviewer Awards (e.g., FSE'25, NDSS'25, TSE); Students have won several awards (e.g., SIGSOFT travel grants, Best RA Award from EECS); Research works accepted and published in top conferences such as USENIX Security'25, S&P'25, ISSTA'25, FSE'24, CCS'23; VGX project accepted at ICSE'24, advancing large-scale, high-quality vulnerability data generation; PyRTFuzz project accepted at CCS'23, discovering 61 new bugs in both the Python interpreter and runtime libraries.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor (2016-2022) and then Associate Professor with tenure (2022-2024) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Washington State University, Pullman; Tenured Associate Professor in the CSE department at University at Buffalo, SUNY (UB) since August 2024.
Education
Advised by Dr. Douglas Thain and Dr. Raul Santelices during PhD study; Postdoc advised by Dr. Barbara Ryder and Dr. Daphne Yao.
Background
A tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY). Research interests lie in software engineering and software security, with a current focus on program analysis and machine/deep learning for security applications to multilingual software, distributed systems, and mobile apps. The main goal is to develop practically scalable and cost-effective techniques and tools that improve the productivity of software developers and the quality of large-scale, complex real-world software systems.
Miscellany
Maintains a personal blog and various social media accounts (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn, Github)