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

Xiaolei (Harry) Ren

PhD Candidate, started Sept 2017

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


Current Master and Bachelor Students

Ruben Martinez

Master student

  • Focuses on Big Data and Software Engineering


Alumni - PhD Students

Mengfei (Angela) Ren

Graduated in 2023, now Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Enigneering at University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Jaganmohan Chandrasekaran

Graduated in 2021, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at Virginia Tech

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Huadong (Jack) Feng

Graduated in 2021, now Research Scientist at Facebook

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Duan Feng

Graduated in 2021

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Sarker Tanveer Ahmed

Graduated in 2017, now Associate Professor at University of Dhaka

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Jing Xu

Graduated in 2016, now Software Engineer at Google

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Laleh Ghandehari

Graduated in 2016, now Software Engineer at ZEISS Medical Technology

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Mehra Nouroz Borazjany

Graduated in 2014, now Associate professor of instruction at The University of Texas at Dallas

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Linbin Yu

Graduated in 2013, now Research Scientist at Facebook

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Wenhua Wang

Graduated in 2010, now Senior DevOps/Release Engineer at Apple

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Alumni - Master Students

Ankita Patel

Graduated in 2022, now Application Delivery Lead at Zurich North America

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Dengfeng Xia

Graduated in 2012, now Sr. SWE Test at Twitter

Anthony Opara

Graduated in 2008, now Senior Solutions Architect at Ericsson

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Keerthika Koteeswaran

Graduated in 2007, now Senior Data Engineer at Adobe

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Arun Ramani

Graduated in 2007, now Senior Software Development Manager at PayPal

Andres Yanes

Graduated in 2007

Kallol Mahata

Graduated in 2007, now PCIC Co-founder and CEO

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Daxa Patel

Graduated in 2006

Chinmay Jayaswal

Graduated in 2006, now Finance Manager at AT&T

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Vidur Gupta

Graduated in 2006, now Engineering Manager at Cisco

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Monica Hernandez

Graduated in 2006, now CEO MAS Global

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Gaurav Saini

Graduated in 2005, now Senior Practice Manager, Global and Strategic Accounts at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Mohammad Shaito

Ph.D. Candiate, CSE at UTA

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Pichate Pluempatanakij

Graduated in 2003


Former Visit Scholars

Chang Rao

Researcher scholar 2017-2019, now Researcher at Chongqing Jiaotong University

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