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

Our "Women in Engineering" hiring round (at all academic levels) includes our School of Computer Science as well. Deadline is July 13!

School of Computer Science, University of Sydney@sydneycompsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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.

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!

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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...

fuzzingbook.org

ACM SIGSOFT@sigsoft.bsky.social · 2y ago

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."

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.

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"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...

Graph comparing the (federally set baseline for) PhD stipends versus the Australian median wage, from 2016 to 2024. It is growing more slowly, and is now more than twice lower.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2y ago

PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away