Awards
Latest Awards and Approved Grants 🏆
- 2025: I won a ✨ Google Research Scholar Award ✨ for my proposal on tackling LLM hallucinations (Personal Grant).
- 2025: Recieved an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for our work on How Much Code LLMs Remember? at MSR.
- 2024: Recieved an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for our work on Smart AutoCompletion Invocation at AIWare.
- 2024: I won an ✨ Amazon Research Award ✨ for my porposal on addressing memorization in LLMs (Personal Grant).
- 2023: My grant proposals for two fully-funded PhD positions on #LLMs4code are approved by JetBrains Research.
- 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 ACM Distinguished Service Award for co-chairing the NLBSE competition on issue classification.
- 2023: Our tool for classifying code comments won first place in the NLBSE’23 tool competition.
- 2023: 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.
- 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: 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: Invited to the Dagstuhl seminar on Programming Language Processing organized by Pradel et al., Germany.