Awards

Latest Awards and Grants

  • 2024: Personal Grant: I won an Amazon Research Award for my work on measuring and understanding memorization in #LLM4Code.
  • 2023: My grant proposals for two fully-funded PhD positions on #LLMs4code are approved.
  • 2023: Received one fully-funded PhD as part of my starting package for my new role as the assistant professor, TU Delft.
  • 2023: Received the Distinguished Service Award for co-chairing the NLP-based SE competition on issue classification.
  • 2023: Our tool for classifying code comments won first place in the NLBSE’23 tool competition.
  • 2023: Our attack won first place in the LLM’s data extraction challenge organized by Nicholas Carlini et al. at (Google) SaTML’23.
  • 2022: My tool for issue management won first place in the NLBSE’22 tool competition.

Latest Invited Talks and Visits

  • 2025: Gave an invited talk at the French National Centre for Scientific Research’s (CNRS) open seminar on Software Development in the Era of Generative AI
  • 2024: Gave an invited talk at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
  • 2024: Gave an invited talk at Bits&Chips 2024 (Exhibition and conference on challenges in complex software engineering, AI in high-tech and system architecture).
  • 2024: Gave an invited talk at Google Research.
  • 2024: We won an ACM Distinguished Paper Award for our study on smart invocation of autocompletion systems at AIWare’24.
  • 2024: Gave an invited talk at the FM+SE Summit in Tokyo.
  • 2024: Attended a Shonan meeting on Foundational Models for Software Engineering in Japan.
  • 2023: I was invited and attended the Dagstuhl seminar on Programming Language Processing organized by Pradel et al., Germany.