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). He is also Senior Scientific Advisor at SonarSource, subsequent to the acquisition of his spinoff AutoCodeRover on AI-based coding.

Abhik received his PhD in Computer Science from the Stony Brook University in 2000, and has been a faculty member at NUS School of Computing since 2001. His research group at NUS 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, IEEE New Directions Award 2022 (jointly with Cristian Cadar) for contributions to symbolic execution (for test generation and 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, Peking University and Concordia 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. He is a member of the editorial board of Communications of the ACM. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). Abhik is a Fellow of the ACM.

Software testing and analysis, Automatic Programming, Program Repair, Trustworthy systems.

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• Feb 2025: AutoCodeRover, our AI Software Engineer embodying agentic AI and a NUS spinoff, is acquired by SonarSource. Following is a group photo of the core AutoCodeRover team taken on the day after acquisition: Haifeng Ruan, Yuntong Zhang, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Martin Mirchev and myself.
  
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• Honored to be the inaugural recipient of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2024. Following is a photo taken at the award ceremony with past and present members of TSS group.

  

• ICSE 2024, the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, was held in Lisbon in April 2024 after about three years of discussions and planning with my co-chair Margaret-Anne Storey. ~1100 submissions, 234 accepted papers, ~225 PC members, 12 area chairs spanning the entire spectrum of software engineering, and 2000+ conference attendees! ICSE2024 involved major changes to the conference for the first time, allowing major revisions of papers, and allowing submissions of papers in multiple cycles spanning an entire year.