News

July 14, 2025

Congratulations to Qiping who has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled 'Enhancing Symbolic Execution for Solidity Smart Contracts'.

2025

Welcome Sampada to our lab as Volunteer Research Assistant.

November 18, 2024

Congratulations to Sunny who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled 'Leveraging Software Testing Techniques to Explain, Analyze, and Debug Machine Learning Models'.

2024

Welcome Samreen to our lab as an M.S. Thesis student.

January 2024

Welcome Shovon Niverd to our lab as a Ph.D. student.

January 2024

Welcome Saif Uddin Mahmud to our lab as a Ph.D. student.

August 25, 2023

Welcome Pujan Budhathoki to our lab as a Ph.D. student.

July 31, 2023

Congratulations to Qiping, Fadule & Jack who have their paper titled "SmartExecutor: Coverage-Driven Symbolic Execution Guided by a Function Dependency Graph", being accepted by BRAINS 2023.

March 1, 2023

Welcome Arjun Dahal to our lab as a Ph.D. student.

December 20, 2022

Congratulations to Jack, Xiaolei & Qiping who have their paper titled "MagicMirror: Towards High-Coverage Fuzzing of Smart Contracts", being accepted into ICST 2023. ICST is a major conference in Software Testing, and smart contract is an exciting application domain.

July 11, 2022

Congratulations to Mengfei who has her extension work of the first project being accepted by ACM Journal Digital Threats: Research and Practice, titled "Security Analysis of Zigbee Protocol Implementation".

June 17, 2022

Sunny and Jagan's paper, titled "DeltaExplainer: A Software Debugging Approach to Generating Counterfactual Explanations", has been accepted to AITest 2022

April 22, 2022

Ankita has successfully defended her Master's thesis.

November 9, 2021

The National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST) supports our work on Explaining and Debugging decisions made by machine learning models with a three-year, $385,000 grant.

August 18, 2021

Congratulations to Jaganmohan Chandrasekaran who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Testing AI-based Software Systems".

May 24, 2021

Congratulations to Xiaolei Ren, Dr. Jiang Ming, and Dr. Jeff Lei who won the PLDI 2021 Distinguished Paper Award for their paper Unleashing the Hidden Power of Compiler Optimization on Binary Code Difference: An Empirical Study. PLDI is the flagship conference in the field of programming languages and programming systems research.

May 15, 2021

Congratulations to Feng Duan who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

May 15, 2021

Congratulations to Huadong (Jack) Feng who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

May 6, 2021

Congratulations to Mengfei who has her first paper accepted by WiSec'21. Her paper is titled as Z-Fuzzer: Device-agnostic Fuzzing of Zigbee Protocol Implementation.

May 6, 2021

Congratulations to Xiaolei who has his first paper accepted by PLDI'21. His paper is titled as Unleashing the Hidden Power of Compiler Optimization on Binary Code Difference: An Empirical Study.

May 5, 2021

Congratulations to Jagan who has received the "Summer 2021 Dissertation Fellowship" award at UTA.

January 27, 2021

Congratulations Jack for his excellent work on testing smart contracts. He has just finished an external release of a tool called MagicMirror. NIST will make a public release of the tool.