Bio

Abhik Roychoudhury is Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he leads a research team on Trustworthy and Secure Software (TSS). His research group is known for foundational contributions to software testing and analysis. Specifically the team has made contributions to automatic programming and automated program repair, as well as to fuzz testing for finding security vulnerabilities in software systems. These works have been honored with various awards including an International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Most Influential Paper Award (Test-of-time award) for program repair, and IEEE New Directions Award 2022 for contributions to symbolic execution and its usage in program repair.

Abhik was the inaugural recipient of the NUS Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award 2024. Doctoral students graduated from his research team have taken up faculty positions in many academic institutions including Max Planck Institute, NUS, University College London, University of Melbourne, and Peking University. He has served the software engineering research community in various capacities including as chair of the major conferences of the field, ICSE and FSE. Currently, he serves as chair of the FSE steering committee. Abhik received his PhD in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000.

Software testing and analysis, Software security, Trustworthy systems.