Rohan Padhye
@rohan.padhye.org
Computer Science professor at CMU. Doing research on automated software testing and bug finding. https://rohan.padhye.org
Ever used AI to fix tricky race conditions and flaky tests? Not pretty, is it? Check out "Spaghetti Bench 🍝: A SWE-Agent Benchmark for Concurrency Bug Tasks" Turns out it's still a HARD problem, but it can be made tractable with deterministic replay. pastalab.org/spaghetti-be...
SPLASH and ISSTA are going to be co-located in 2026 at Oakland, CA! 🥳 If you would like to run a workshop in PL/SE/Testing, submit a proposal by Jan 10th: conf.researchr.org/track/splash... Contact @sholtzen.bsky.social or me for questions.
SPLASH/ISSTA 2026 - Workshops - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Welcome to the website of the SPLASH/ISSTA 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview...
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⏱️ 9 days until submission deadline (Dec 11, 23:59 AoE). Organized by: @yannicnoller.bsky.social, @rohan.padhye.org, @ruijiemeng.bsky.social, and Laszlo (@lszekeres.bsky.social) Szekeres.
Yannic Noller@yannicnoller.bsky.social · 10mo ago#FUZZING'26 CALL FOR PAPERS ────── ✨ After 5 years, we will be again co-located with NDSS! 🔗 fuzzing-workshop.github.io 📅 11. Dec (Submission) //cc @mboehme.bsky.social (MPI-SP), @ruijiemeng.bsky.social (CISPA), @rohan.padhye.org (CMU), László Szekeres (Google)
Check out the latest episode of the #BugBash podcast! I had a great time chatting with David Wynn about automated testing in academia vs industry. Thanks @antithesis.com for having me on!
Antithesis@antithesis.com · 8mo agoIf a debate breaks out at your dinner table, take a break and listen to @rohan.padhye.org share how two camps that have long misunderstood each other - industry and academia - can learn from each other instead. This latest ep of the #BugBash podcast is live now, whereever you get your podcasts.
Update: Mostly a success. On arrival I was able to read basic signs during my ride from 인천공항 to 서울. Super elegant and easy to learn script! Quite compositional much like Devanagari (Sanskrit/Hindi/Marathi) which I'm already familiar with. - 로힌
Rohan Padhye@rohan.padhye.org · 9mo agoExcited to be on my way to ASE in Seoul! Aiming to learn some Hangul on the flight. @aseconf.bsky.social
Excited to be on my way to ASE in Seoul! Aiming to learn some Hangul on the flight. @aseconf.bsky.social
Gaetano's paper on Scaling Security Testing by Adressing the Reachability Gap has been accepted at #ICSE26! 📝 gpsapia.github.io/files/ICSE_2... 🧑💻 github.com/GPSapia/Reac... How to scale automatic security testing to arbitrary systems?
#FUZZING'26 CALL FOR PAPERS ────── ✨ After 5 years, we will be again co-located with NDSS! 🔗 fuzzing-workshop.github.io 📅 11. Dec (Submission) //cc @mboehme.bsky.social (MPI-SP), @ruijiemeng.bsky.social (CISPA), @rohan.padhye.org (CMU), László Szekeres (Google)
Podcast! Had a fun conversation with @cachemisses.bsky.social on an episode of *Disseminate*. Check it out!
Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast@disseminatepodcast.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨 "Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency JVM Testing Platform" with Rohan Padhye (@rohan.padhye.org) & Ao Li (@aoli.al) is available now! 🎙️ Guest hosted by the brilliant Bogdan Stoica (@cachemisses.bsky.social) 🎧 Listen on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/SDaTOOEDuto?...
Excited to announce that the Fray paper has been accepted to OOPSLA'25! Work led by @aoli.al with a full pastalab.org collaboration. 📄: rohan.padhye.org/files/fray-o... 💻: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray 🎥: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P...
Debating whether we can add acks "We thank Reviewers A and C for their constructive feedback on our paper".
🚨 Our amazing #FUZZING'25 keynotes are online! "Constraining Fuzzing without Paying Too Much" by Miryung Kim youtu.be/L90MBb6NLBE "Are you sure you belong in academia?" by Will Wilson youtu.be/qQGuQ_4V6WI // @mboehme.bsky.social, László Szekeres, @rohan.padhye.org, @ruijiemeng.bsky.social
Marcel Böhme@mboehme.bsky.social · last yr.We had two exciting keynotes: * From academia: Miryung Kim (Prof @ UCLA) * From industry: Will Wilson (CEO and Co-Founder of @AntithesisHQ.bsky.social). Stay tuned for recordings!
Very cool: @aoli.al uncovered a deadlock in OpenJDK that can be triggered with a tiny test case and Fray's deterministic concurrency testing & debugging support. Read his blog post here: aoli.al/blogs/jdk-bug/ If you write Java/Scala/Kotlin, try Fray yourself: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray I’ve been adding more integration tests for Fray recently. To ensure Fray can handle different scenarios, I wrote many creati...
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Just Accepted to ACM TOSEM! The "Havoc Paradox" is about the relationship between byte-level fuzzer mutations and their effect on the inputs produced by generators for structured strings (e.g. XML/SQL). Can disruptive mutations be controlled? Should they be? Find out. 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🖊️ Register here: ntnu.eventsair.com/fse2025-isst... (FUZZING is a co-located workshop)
Welcome to FSE 2025 + ISSTA 2025
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Rohan Padhye@rohan.padhye.org · last yr.We're excited to announce two keynote speakers for the #FUZZING'25 workshop (part of @issta_conf at Trondheim, Norway): [*] Will Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Antithesis [*] Miryung Kim, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies at UCLA conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2...
We're excited to announce two keynote speakers for the #FUZZING'25 workshop (part of @issta_conf at Trondheim, Norway): [*] Will Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Antithesis [*] Miryung Kim, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies at UCLA conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2...
The JQF repo is now both popular enough (700+ stars) and contains enough buggy/vulnerable code as sample fuzz targets that we're getting occasionally spammed with crappy AI-generated patches. I can't imagine what bigger OSS projects are dealing with right now.
Delighted to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Award for this work... It's about time! Proud of the PASTA Lab students, including our visiting undergrads :-)
Rohan Padhye@rohan.padhye.org · last yr.Happy Daylight Savings Time to everyone in the US! A few more weeks for European Summer Time. If you notice some of your apps glitching, don't be alarmed. Even ChatGPT can't write correct date/time code!!! See more in our upcoming paper: rohan.padhye.org/files/dateti... (MSR'25 preprint)
Submission deadline for the Fuzzing workshop is tonight (AoE)! Send us those nuggets and research ideas. Rohan
Rohan Padhye@rohan.padhye.org · last yr.I'm super excited about this new track at the #FUZZING'25 workshop. It's the academic version of thoughtful blog posts, but with a paper and talk for wider reach! Submission deadline is in a month (March 20th)! fuzzingworkshop.github.io
Happy Daylight Savings Time to everyone in the US! A few more weeks for European Summer Time. If you notice some of your apps glitching, don't be alarmed. Even ChatGPT can't write correct date/time code!!! See more in our upcoming paper: rohan.padhye.org/files/dateti... (MSR'25 preprint)
I'm super excited about this new track at the #FUZZING'25 workshop. It's the academic version of thoughtful blog posts, but with a paper and talk for wider reach! Submission deadline is in a month (March 20th)! fuzzingworkshop.github.io
Marcel Böhme@mboehme.bsky.social · last yr.*Fuzzing nuggets* (short papers) are evidence-backed position papers or experience reports on SOTA practices---a platform for researchers & practitioners to share substantiated opinions or reflections that are of interest to the community but not to be developed into full paper.
#FUZZING'25 CALL FOR PAPERS ────── ✨ New OC members: * Ruijie Meng (@ruijiemeng.bsky.social; NUS) * Rohan Padhye (@rohan.padhye.org; CMU). ✨ New paper type: Fuzzing Nuggets (short papers). 🔗 fuzzingworkshop.github.io 📅 20.March (Submission) 📅 17.April (Notification) 📅 28.June (Workshop)
Back to basics: Concurrency testing in Java! Our new tool *Fray* correctly solves a 25+ year old problem for real-world software. See this feature from Elastic Labs about Fray's contributions to Lucene. 📰: www.elastic.co/search-labs/... 🔧: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray 📝: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12618
How do you know whether random testing is working as expected? [1/3] Long ago in JQF, we used `assumeTrue` to bias fuzzing towards *valid* inputs. This is powerful, but the abstraction is quite coarse if you have many properties. (Refs: github.com/rohanpadhye/..., rohan.padhye.org/files/zest-i...)
And now that we’re all here, some work!🚨 Are Large Language Models Memorizing Bug Benchmarks? 🚨 There’s growing concern that LLMs for SE are prone to data leakage, but no one has quantified it... until now. 🕵️♂️ 1/
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