Bio

Abhik Roychoudhury is a Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, where he has been since 2001 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000. He is the Director of the National Satellite of Excellence in Trustworthy Software Systems at Singapore (2019-23). He has also helped set up the Singapore Cyber-security Consortium , which is a consortium of 25 companies in the cyber-security space engaging with academia for research and collaboration. Abhik's research focuses on software testing and analysis, software security and trust-worthy software construction. His research team is known for contributions to automated program repair, and fuzz testing. Abhik is a member of the Steering committee of the flagship conferences in Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). His former doctoral students have been placed all over the world as academics (Peking University, University College London, Max-Planck Institute, University of Melbourne, Beihang University, SUSTech, SUTD).

Research Interests

Research Projects

Current

• Recent developments:
  • [Mar22]  Honored to receive IEEE TCSE New Directions Award, jointly with Cristian Cadar, for contributions to symbolic execution used for test generation and program repair.
  • [Jan22]  Ministry of Education (MoE) Tier 3 program Automated Program Repair funded to 2027, Co-PIs Ilya Sergey and Chin Wei Ngan.
  • [Dec21] Thanks to Oracle Labs for their generous donation to support our research on program repair for security.
  • [Oct 21] Descartes program on smart cities with CNRS has been launched (Please apply).
  • [Sept 21] Congratulations to Xiang Gao for defending his PhD thesis.
  • [July 21]   ISSTA21 paper on patch transplantation in Linux code receives Best Artifact award.
  • [June 21] AsiaCCS 21 paper on fault localization using fuzz testing gets Best paper award.
  • [May 21] Former PhD student and post-doc Marcel Boehme joining Max-Planck Institute for Security and Privacy as faculty member.
  • [April 21] CPR tool on Concolic Program Repair (see paper) released.
  • ACM TOSEM Continuous Open Section on Security and Software Engineering launched. Please contribute a paper.
  • Will be speaking at the NUS PhD e-open Day 2020, 29 October 2020
  • Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW) R & D Workshop, (watch Day 1) organized by Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium, October 2020.
  • Our perspectives article on Fuzz Testing or Fuzzing, due to appear in IEEE Software (Article)
  • TSUNAMi project building core capabilities in software security completes after more than 5 years.
  • Communications of the ACM, Special Section on East Asia and Oceania is out!
  • Article on  "Singapore's Cybersecurity Ecosystem" appears in Communications of the ACM.
  • Article and Video on "Automated Program Repair" appeared in Communications of the ACM.
  • [Jan 2020] Grant call launch by National Satellite of Excellence in Trustworthy Software Systems
  • Former PhD student Dr. Van-Thuan Pham joining University of Melbourne as Lecturer (Asst. Prof.).

• "Education consists mostly of what we have unlearned" - Mark Twain.

      Here is one of my favorites, with a nuanced connotation in terms of research ...

• "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."  - Rabindranath Tagore.