I will be presenting our latest #Fandango work on September 30 at the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's meet at #GOTO! gotocph.com/2026
Rahul Gopinath
@rahul.gopinath.org
Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. ശ്രീദേവി's Dad. I work in the junction between SE and CySec. Interested in Program Analysis, Mutation Analysis, Repair, Grammar Inference, Generation and Parsing https://rahul.gopinath.org
The paper will be presented in the Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track of the conference. 📝 Paper: rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is... 👤 Authors on BlueSky: @ccanonne.github.io @kasperian.bsky.social @rahul.gopinath.org
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🎉 Nelum Attanayake, Danushka Liyanage, Hoang Nguyen, Suranga Seneviratne, Clément Canonne, and Rahul Gopinath's paper "Better Distributional Fit Does Not Improve Reachable Coverage Estimation in Fuzzing" was accepted at #ISSRE26!#softwareengineering 🔗 ISSRE: cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/
Delighted to welcome our new faculty member, Anastasia Isychev (@isychev.bsky.social) , to #USyd! Anastasia brings her expertise in formal methods and program analysis to the School.
Co-authors: Aarush Kumbhakern (Ashoka University, India) and Mohammad Amin Alipour (University of Houston, USA)
🎉 Feiyang Chen, Danushka Liyanage, Xi Wu, and Rahul Gopinath's paper "Dr. DD: 1-Minimal Isolation of Failure Causes via Deferred Restarts" was accepted at #ISSRE26! #deltadebug #softwaretesting #inputminimization 🔗 ISSRE: cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ 📝 Paper: rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...
🎉 Our school members Zijian Luo, Xi Wu, Hong Jin Kang, Alan Fekete, and Rahul Gopinath have published their work "Maximal Format-Free Data Repair" at #ASE2026! #softwareengineering #database #datascience #dataengineering #datarepair 📝 Paper: rahul.gopinath.org/resources/as...
Our "Women in Engineering" hiring round (at all academic levels) includes our School of Computer Science as well. Deadline is July 13!
We're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
A bit less than a month left to apply! Join the School of Computer Science at #USyd — and if you have any questions (about the job, university, or process), please reach out! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...
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We're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
As an ESL person, several habits from my first language (Malayalam) leak into my writing. Heavily nested sentences, em-dashes and parentheticals everywhere. LLMs have made this a major casualty. I now have to use them to remove em-dashes and parentheticals so it doesn't get flagged as LLM generated.
We're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
Thrilled to give a keynote at ACM India's ISEC'26 in Jaipur this Friday! How do we know whether our program has no bugs if we have never seen it have any, and if we don't even have anything (i.e., an oracle) that can tell us whether a behavior is a bug or feature? Stick around till Friday!
I am happy to report that I have been named the recipient of the 2026 Harlan D. Mills award "For sustained contributions to software debugging, program analysis, mining software repositories, and automated test generation." This is a big award – thanks to all! www.computer.org/volunteering...
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...
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🎉 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...
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🎉 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
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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).
The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months". If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
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!
The Fuzzing Book
Welcome to "The Fuzzing Book"! Software has bugs, and catching bugs can involve lots of effort. This book addresses this problem by automating software testing, specifically by generating tests autom...
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Congratulations to Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social, CISPA and Saarland University, for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award "For significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education."
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...
PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away