Ridwan Shariffdeen

Dr. Ridwan Shariffdeen

Research Fellow
School of Computing
National University of Singapore

Email ridwan@comp.nus.edu.sg
Location
 Programming Languages & Software Engineering Lab (COM3 02-20)
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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!

Recent and Ongoing Activities
Featured Publications
[APR'23]
Program Repair Competition
Ridwan Shariffdeen, Martin Mirchev, Abhik Roychoudhury
(One-line Abstract) proposing a competition to shape the next-generation repair
2023 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR)
  
[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
  
[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
  
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Recent updates

09/09/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee for the demo track at SANER’24 News
29/07/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee for the technical track at SEAMS’24 News
26/07/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee for the technical track at ISEC’24 News
11/07/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee for the technical track at FSE’24 News
23/06/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee of SDD@FSE’23
23/05/2023 I have given a talk on automated program repair at Oracle Labs in Brisbane, Australia
18/05/2023 I will be co-chairing the software engineering track at MerCon’23
18/05/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee of Fuzzing@ISSTA’23
01/03/2023 Our paper on Program Repair Competition has been accepted at ICSE'23 APR Workshop
20/01/2023 Our framework for automated program repair has been accepted at ICSE'23 Demo Track
10/01/2023 Invited to serve on the program committee of SCORED@CCS’23
26/12/2022 I have given a talk on software vulnerability repair at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
17/12/2022 Invited to serve on the program committee of APR@ICSE’23
16/12/2022 I have given a talk on coevolution for program repair at PLSE Seminar in NUS
19/11/2022 Invited to join The ACM TOSEM Board of Distinguished Reviewers
19/10/2022 I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Software Vulnerability Repair"
01/09/2022 Joined as a Research Fellow at Secure Software Research Group , SoC, NUS
17/05/2022 Invited to serve on the program committee in ISEC'23
17/05/2022 Invited to serve on the program committee in SCORED@CCS'22
18/12/2021 Selected participant for the 10th Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS 2022)
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