Jack presenting our ISSRE'25 work, Automatic Data Repair with out Specifications. The paper is here: rahul.gopinath.org/publications...

I have lost the number of times where I have used C^R on the command line, and executed a destructive command that was slightly different from the one that I intended. #bash #unix #commandline

I am at São Paulo attending ISSRE'25 issre.github.io/2025/ If you are around, please come, say "Hi" :)

🎉 The School of #ComputerScience welcomes the appointment of Prof. Tony Wirth as Head of School. We are looking forward to seeing the School grow under his leadership, to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead with academic excellence, inclusivity, and collegiality front and center! #USyd

🎉 Jack and Rahul's paper "Automatic Data Repair without Format Specifications" was accepted at #ISSRE2025! 🔗More about ISSRE: issre.github.io/2025/ @rahul.gopinath.org #datarepair #softwareengineering #se rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...

🎉 Rahul's paper "From Theory to Practice: Blackbox Testing in an Industrial Telecom Environment" was accepted at #ISSRE2025! 🔗More about ISSRE: issre.github.io/2025/ @rahul.gopinath.org #SE, #softwareengineering, #blackboxtesting, #specificationinference rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...

🎉 Danushka Liyanage, Nelum Attanayake, Zijian Luo, Rahul Gopinath's paper "Assessing Reliability of Statistical Maximum Coverage Estimators in Fuzzing" was accepted at #ICSME2025! 🔗 conf.researchr.org/home/icsme-2... @rahul.gopinath.org #SoftwareTesting #Fuzzing Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.17093

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd will hold its 2025 #Research Showcase on Friday July 25, 1:45–6:15pm. This year's will revolve around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Discover the latest advances in AI, HCI, cybersecurity, data science, and more!  Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20161...

This is across all fields. If you are in Computer Science and in this situation, please reach out to me (or directly to our Head of School).

Honors! Today at #ICSE2025, I received the #ACM #SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award “for significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education” (such as fuzzingbook.org). Thanks to all!

We’re thrilled for @andreaszeller.bsky.social who received the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. Andreas was honored “for significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.” cispa.de/en/zeller-in... Credits: Jordan Samhi

I am reviewing a student transcript Xi'an International University. I am curious; Has any one taken this course before?

Happy and honored to receive the 2025 ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award! The citation refers to my work on interactive textbooks such as fuzzingbook.org and debuggingbook.org. Thanks to all who helped making this possible!

Congratulations to the new #ACM Fellows of 2024, including Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, Derek Dreyer, Tim Menzies, Mira Mezini, Bashar Nuseibeh, Abhik Roychoudhury @abhikrc.bsky.social, and Ben Zorn. What a great year this is!

Do I trust Adobe Acrobat or Latex? Adobe says I have 11.96pt as font size but I used the incantation ``` \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{times} ``` in my latex source.

We will hold the Fuzzing and Software Security Summer School 2025 in Singapore from May 26 to 30. Please consider registering or sharing the info with anyone you think would be interested. Registration will be open until 16 Feb. fuzzing.comp.nus.edu.sg @abhikrc.bsky.social @umathur.bsky.social

"The number of Australian 🇦🇺 students enrolling in PhDs has declined by almost 10% in less than a decade [...] with skyrocketing living costs and a lack of government support acting as major deterrents for potential candidates, almost 60% of whom are women." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The deadline to submit your abstract to CIbSE is tomorrow. conf.researchr.org/home/cibse-2... #SEResearch

Re-reading "The Rithmatist" by Brandon Sanderson. I am vaguely bothered that the invention of procedures for chalklings was not the big undiscovered magic.

Continuing my exploration into the capabilities of LLMs (bsky.app/profile/rahu...) I decided to see if LLMs can solve much simpler problems where the information is completely available in text (i.e. does not require multi-modal capabilities) but does require reasoning.

[Simon Wilson](simonwillison.net/tags/pelican...) has an excellent observation. LLMs seem to have a hard time when generating SVG images from text, with more capable LLMs performing beter. #LLM

My student Björn Mathis passed his PhD exam today! In his work, he developed new methods for fuzzing and analyzing parsers, mining input grammars, and more: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

I have created a Starter Pack for Software Engineering Research Software Engineering Researchers, from Academia or Industry #SEResearch Some PL people too bsky.app/starter-pack...

I wish we had a hashtag for software engineering research related posts. Maybe #SEResearch?

Hoping to continue [this discussion](gopinath.org/remote/objec...) here. I see that there are lots of posts about the strength of type declarations.

Today, I was formally introduced as a new member of the prestigious Academia Europeana (@aecardiff.bsky.social), the Scientific Academy of Europe. I felt humbled in the presence of Nobel laureates and so many most excellent scientists!

Looking for some more Australian content on Bluesky? Here is a starter pack of University of Sydney (@sydneyuni.bsky.social) academics you might like to follow. #academicsky go.bsky.app/9w8is8a

USyd mime protection for email links is now going overdrive. Even harmless domains like dynomight.net/more-chess/ get blocked!

Flame trees are red The fish are blue We're hiring ⏰ December Two usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

If you'd like to include a #Bluesky icon in some text of your Web page (see example), here's a little HTML/SVG snippet for you that does right that: gist.github.com/andreas-zell...

Bluesky allows us to leverage our domain name handles as our verification mechanism. For example I am @rahul.gopinath.org What if you do not own the domain, but is using a github pages account? What you need is as follows: (0/n)

My talk "How to Compare Fuzzers" at SAPLING'24 yesterday is available on line here: speakerdeck.com/rahulgopinat... #SoftwareEnginnering #MutationTesting #Fuzzing

I am giving a talk on evaluating fuzzers at #SAPLING’24 ANU tomorrow. If you’re at Canberra, do drop in comp.anu.edu.au/sapling/2024/ #SoftwareEngineering