| May'26 | Return of Symbolic AI? | |
| PC, ESEM'26 | ||
| SSBSE'26: Zoom, Don't Wander | ||
| IST: Coverage to Causes | ||
| Apr'26 | ICSE'26: HPO and SE |
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I am an ACM fellow, IEEE fellow, ASE fellow and the editor-in-chief of the Automated SE journal. For 2010–2026 I was an Associate Editor, IEEE TSE.
I earned my PhD from UNSW (1995) and am a Full Professor at NC State, where I direct the Irrational Research Lab. My work focuses on software engineering for AI — building data-driven, explainable, and intelligent software systems. I co-created the PROMISE repository, showing that small, interpretable AI models can often outperform larger, more complex ones.
24 Ph.D. students advised + 3 in progress.
$19M in grants from NASA, NSF, NSA, LexisNexis, Microsoft, Meta, National Archives, etc.
300+ papers, 25,000+ citations (h-index=75).
wanna work with me ?
Are you industry? Or enrolled at NC State?
want to find+fix bugs in real ai/ml?
Email me, and/or take my SE+AI subject (Fall'26),
and/or
sign up for my reading group (Fall 2026).
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