People

Dr. Tushar Sharma

Tushar leads the SMART lab. His research focus is software engineering (code quality, refactoring, program comprehension, and technical debt), and machine learning for software engineering applications.

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Mootez Saad

PhD student (Winter 2023 - -)

Research interests: Software engineering, deep learning, program analysis, source code embeddings.

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Saurabh Singh Rajput

PhD student (Fall 2022 - -)

Research interests: Software engineering, machine learning, natural language processing.

Aryan Boloori

PhD student (Fall 2024 - -)

Research interests: Software engineering, Software quality and maintenance, Machine learning code smells.

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Mohammadjavad Mehditabar

MCS student (Winter 2025 - -)

Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning for Software Engineering, Green AI, Generative AI.

Gautam Shetty

MCS student (Fall 2022 - -)

Research interests: Software engineering & development, code refactoring.

Abhinav Reddy Mandli

Undergraduate research intern (Sept 2022 - Aug 2023)

Research interests: Software engineering, machine learning, deep Learning, natural language processing.

Indranil Palit

MCS student (Fall 2022 - Fall 2024)

Defended thesis on Dec 09, 2024

Thesis: Semantic and Execution-Aware Extract Method Refactoring via Self-Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning-Based Model Alignment

Research interests: Software engineering, deep learning, natural language processing.

Artun Selçuk

Undergraduate Research Intern (May 2024 - Dec 2024)

Research interests: Software engineering, machine learning, data engineering.

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Ghazal Sobhani

MCS student (Fall 2022 - Summer 2024); co-supervised with Dr. Israat Haque

Defended thesis on Aug 20, 2024

Thesis: Addressing Reproducibility and Energy-efficiency in AI Deployments

Research interests: Software defined network, software engineering.

Himesh Nandani

MCS student (Fall 2021 - Fall 2023)

Defended thesis on Dec 11, 2023

Thesis: Addressing subjectivity in code smell detection by leveraging human feedback in a deep-learning-based solution

Research interests: Code smells detection, deep learning.

Indira Vats

Research intern (April 2022 - May 2023)

Research interests: Software engineering, machine learning.

Sreya Gopagoni

Research Intern (June 2023 - Jul 2023)
Research interests: Software engineering and development, UI/UX design, Machine learning.

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Sanidhya Vijayvargiya

Research Intern (June 2023 - Aug 2023)
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Software Engineering.

Joyce Jiao

Undergraduate research intern (Sept 2022 - Aug 2023)

Research interests: Software engineering, theatrical computer science, quantum computing, quantum programming language