Team Members

We are looking for passionate new PhD students and Master students to join the team (more info) !

Director

Dr. Yu (Jeff) Lei

Professor of Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Ph.D. of Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2002
M.S. of Software Engineering from Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science in 1996
B.S. of Computer Science from Wuhan University (Special Class for Gifted Young) in 1993

Dr. Lei was a Member of Technical Staff in Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. for about three years. His research is in the area of automated software analysis, testing and verification for both functional and non-functional (e.g., security, performance) properties.

Research Interests: Software Engineering, Software Secuirty and AI-based Software

Current PhD Students

Sunny Shree

PhD student, started Sept 2018

Focuses on AI-Based Software Engineering
Focuses on applying software engineering technique to generate counterfactual explanations for the decision made by the machine learning models.

Qiping Wei

PhD student, started Jan 2020

B.S. in the School of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology in China
M.S. of Computer Science from UT Arlington
Focuses on symbolic execution of Ethereum smart contracts.

Fadul Sikder

PhD student, started Sept 2021

B.S. in Statusrmation Technology from Jahagirnagr University
His research interests lie in Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Security, and Privacy.

Krishna Khadka

PhD student, started Jan 2022

Focuses on testing and debugging machine learning models to improve the model prediction by finding faults in the training data set.

Arjun Dahal

PhD student, started Sept 2022

Pujan Budhathoki

PhD student, started Sept 2023

B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, IOE
Research Interests include AI-based Software Engineering and integrating Privacy and Psychology with AI

Saif Uddin Mahmud

PhD student, started Jan 2024

B.S. in Software Engineering, University of Dhaka
MS in Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso
Research focus includes mining software repositories, technical debt detection and automated refactoring using machine learning models.