Research Fellow
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
shariffdeenr@acm.org | |
Location |
Programming Languages & Software Engineering Lab (COM3 02-20) |
I am a Research Fellow at Secure Software Research Group, Department of Computer Science at School of Computing, National University of Singapore,
where I am advised by Abhik Roychoudhury. The current focus of my research is on automated program repair, software security and software engineering automation.
I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the same group, during which my focus was on repairing software vulnerabilities using program synthesis, code transplantation and concolic repair.
Previously, I received a Bachelor of Science(BSc) Honors (Hons) degree from the Computer Science & Engineering Department at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. During my bachelor degree I researched on automated solutions to proactively scale cloud resources.
I've also worked as a Senior Software Engineer (Cloud/Security) at OrangeHRM on HR Tech where my focus was on System Security and Automation Technology.
Thanks to the support of my research mentors, I was fortunate to begin working on research early in my undergraduate career.
I’m happy to help ambitious undergraduate students interested in software engineering get started with research, please feel free to email me!
[TOSEM'25] | |
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Christopher Timperley, Yannic Noller, Claire Le Goues, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) Combination of semantic repair and search-based repair for security vulnerabilities | |
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) | |
[APR'24] | |
Program Repair Competition 2024 | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Yannic Noller, Martin Mirchev, Haifeng Ruan Xiang Gao, Andreea Costea, Gregory J Duck, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) summary and results of the first international program repair competition | |
2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR) | |
[ICST'24] | |
Evolutionary Testing for Program Repair | |
Haifeng Ruan, Hoang Lam Nguyen, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Yannic Noller and Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) a co-evolution approach that generates tests and repairs in a unified workflow using EvoSuite | |
17th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2024 | |
[ICSE'23] | |
Cerberus: A Program Repair Framework | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Martin Mirchev, Yannic Noller, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) a language agnostic platform for automated program repair | |
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023, Tool Demonstrations track | |
Note: Our framework including the tools and benchmarks is open sourced at Github | |
[ICSE'22] | |
Trust Enhancement Issues in Program Repair | |
Yannic Noller, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Xiang Gao, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) A systematic evaluation if state of the art APR can meet developer expectations | |
IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2022 | |
Note: Our artifact @ 10.5281/zenodo.5908381, was evaluated as Available , Functional and Reusable . | |
[ISSTA'21] | |
Automated Patch Backporting in Linux (Experience Paper) | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Xiang Gao, Gregory J Duck, Shin Hwei Tan, Julia Lawall, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) Patch backporting technique that can automatically transfer patches from the mainline version of Linux into older stable versions | |
30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2021, 12 pages | |
Note: Our artifact @ 10.5281/zenodo.4764704, was evaluated as Available , Functional and Reusable . | |
Note: FixMorph tool is now open-sourced in Github | |
Note: Our data, empirical evaluation, and replication package are available @ fixmorph.github.io | |
🏆 | Award: Our artifact was awarded the "Distinguished Artifact Award" at ISSTA'21 |
[PLDI'21] | |
Concolic Program Repair | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Yannic Noller, Lars Grunske, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) Detecting and discarding over-fitting patches via systematic co-exploration of the patch space and input space | |
42nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2021, 16 pages | |
Note: Our artifact @ 10.5281/zenodo.4668317, was evaluated as Available , Functional and Reusable . | |
Note: CPR tool is now open-sourced in Github | |
Note: Our data, empirical evaluation, and replication package are available @ cpr-tool.github.io | |
[TOSEM'21] | |
Automated Patch Transplantation | |
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Shin Hwei Tan, Mingyuan Gao, Abhik Roychoudhury | |
(One-line Abstract) Identifying patch insertion points, as well as namespaces translation across programs via symbolic execution | |
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 30(1), pages 1-36, 2021. | |
Note: Selected as journal-first contribution to be presented at ICSE'21 | |
Note: PatchWeave tool is now open-sourced in Github | |
Note: Our data, empirical evaluation, and replication package are available @ patchweave.github.io | |
see all publications |
21/11/2024 | Our paper on vulnerability repair using concolic execution has been accepted to TOSEM News |
28/10/2024 | A paper on static analysis driven program repair has been accepted to TOSEM News |
16/09/2024 | Secured NUS DeGap Funding (co-PI) for our enterprise efforts on AutoCodeRover |
02/03/2024 | Recognized as a distinguished reviewer by ACM TOSEM |
14/02/2024 | I will be co-chairing the software engineering and cloud computing track at MerCon’24 |
08/02/2024 | I have given a talk on Trustworthy Systems with Artificial Intelligence at APR Workshop in NUS |
15/01/2024 | Our paper on usage and perceptions of LLMs in a SE project has been accepted to LLM4Code'24 |
13/01/2024 | A new data-set to study bugs in PHP applications has been accepted at MSR'24 |
06/12/2023 | Our paper titled "Evolutionary Testing for Program Repair" has been accepted to ICST'24 |
28/11/2023 | Invited to serve on the program committee for the technical track at ASE’24 |
23/11/2023 | Invited to join the Dagstuhl Seminar on Automated Programming and Program Repair |
06/12/2023 | A presentation on "Concolic Program Repair" has been accepted at Klee Workshop 2024 |
09/11/2023 | Invited to serve on the program committee for the technical track at ICSE’25 |
28/10/2023 | Invited to serve on the program committee of APR@ICSE’24 |
21/10/2023 | Invited to join the panel discussion in SDD@FSE’23 |
see all updates |