Yiming passes the second exam

I am pleased to announce that my doctoral student Yiming Tang has successfully passed her second exam. She is now a Ph.D. candidate. Congrats, Yiming! And, thank you to the committee, Ashwin Satyanarayana and Subash Shankar!

Actor concurrency study paper accepted at OOPSLA 2020

I am excited to announce that our paper, entitled “Actor Concurrency Bugs: A Comprehensive Study on Symptoms, Root Causes, API Usages, and Differences,” was accepted at OOPSLA 2020! One hundred nine papers were approved out of 302 submissions, amounting to a 36% acceptance rate.

Allan successfully defends his thesis

Congrats to Allan Spektor for successfully defending his MA thesis, entitled Two Techniques for Automated Logging Statement Evolution, yesterday! Thank you to Subash Shankar and Saptarshi Debroy for agreeing to participate on the committee, Khant Ko Naing for administering the defense, and the student participants for their insightful questions. Congrats, Allan!

Allan defending his thesis.
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Accepted EAPLS best paper award at virtual ETAPS 2020

Today, I accepted the EAPLS best paper award on behalf of my coauthors at the virtual ETAPS 2020 afternoon. Thank you, ETAPS, and congrats again to Yiming, Mehdi, and Baishakhi!

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Accepting the EAPLS award at the virtual ETAPS 2020 afternoon.

New course announcement for Fall 2020: Fundamentals of Reactive Programming (Seminar)

The Fall 2020 semester will feature a new course on the fundamentals of reactive programming, CSCI 49380/79526. Continue Reading →

Received EAPLS best paper award at FASE 2020

We are honored to receive the 2020 European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) best paper award at the 2020 International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE ’20) for our paper entitled, “An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams” with Yiming Tang, Mehdi Beherdezeh, and Baishakhi Ray. Continue Reading →

Received Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud credits for research

I am excited to announce that I have received $1,500 from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Credits for Research Program. Continue Reading →

Received PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award


I am pleased to announce that I have recently received a PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award for a project entitled, “Safe and Efficient Parallelism via Collection API Ordering Inference.” Continue Reading →

New doctoral student Tatiana Castro Vélez starts Fall 2020

Student thumbnail photo of Tatiana Castro Vélez.

A new doctoral student, Tatiana Castro Vélez, will join the team starting this Fall semester! Tatiana will enter the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center as a CUNY Graduate Center/Hunter College Computer Science fellow.


Tatiana is currently completing her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has worked as a software engineer in the industry at Rocksolid Technologies, where she worked with the company’s databases. Tatiana also has research experience in investigating the use of mobile app frameworks to collect data in general research projects and is president of her ACM student chapter.

Received JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship

I am pleased to announce that I have been selected for the 2020 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) BRIDGE fellowship! Continue Reading →