I am most interested in reasoning about computer programs for practical purposes. Among many practical applications of program reasoning, I am currently focusing on program repair whereby correct program behavior is inferred from specifications (e.g., reference programs, test cases, and documents), based on which the buggy program is automatically fixed through various techniques such as program synthesis and deep learning.
The dual of program repair is program verification, which checks whether the program satisfies available specifications. In our lab, we use various automated verification techniques, from lightweight ones such as fuzzing to more systematic ones such as symbolic execution.
Below are the research areas I have been working on:
Program verification [TOSEM'22, TOSEM'15, ISSTA'13, AOSD'13, ASEJ'12, IST'10, ASE'06]
News
September 2023: Our paper LeakPair: Proactive Repairing of Memory Leaks in Single Page Web Applications received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2023.
September 2023: Our paper Poracle: Testing Patches Under Preservation Conditions to Combat the Overfitting Problem of Program Repair has been accepted and will appear in TOSEM. Congratulations to Elkhan and Mazba!
July 2023: Joint work with Dongsun Kim on LeakPair: Proactive Repairing of Memory Leaks in Single Page Web Applications has been accepted to ASE 2023. Congratulations to Arooba Shahoor and Askar Khamit!
July 2023: Our demo paper BUGSC++: A Highly Usable Real World Defect Benchmark for C/C++ has been accepted to ASE 2023 Demo. This is joint work with Gabin An, Shin Yoo, Minhyuk Kwon, and Kyunghwa Choi. Our benchmark is available here.
May 2023: Our paper Automated Program Repair from Fuzzing Perspective has been accepted to ISSTA 2023. Congratulations to YoungJae Kim, Seungheon Han, and Khamit Askar.
April 2023: Our research proposal on Large-Language-Model-Based Low-Code Platform Development has been accepted for funding by MSIT.
Feb 2023: Our research proposal on Patch Validation Technique for Automated Program Repair has been accepted for funding by MSIT.
Our paper LeakPair: Proactive Repairing of Memory Leaks in Single Page Web Applications received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2023.
Our paper Poracle: Testing Patches Under Preservation Conditions to Combat the Overfitting Problem of Program Repair has been accepted and will appear in TOSEM. Congratulations to Elkhan and Mazba!
Our research proposal on Large-Language-Model-Based Low-Code Platform Development has been accepted for funding by MSIT.
ACM Distinguished Paper