Ali Ghanbari

Iowa State University
Atanasoff Hall
Ames, IA, 50011, USA


Email: alig[at]iastate[dot]edu
Phone: +1 (515) 294-74[five]6

Research Interests

My research interests span the intersection of programming languages, software engineering, and data science. I use programming languages and data science tools and techniques to solve software engineering problems related to software testing, verification, and repair.

Recent Updates

04/23: Accepted (tenure-track) assistant professor position at Auburn University! 🎉

Education & Training History

I am a postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State University working under the mentorship of Prof. Hridesh Rajan. On December 2021, I received my Ph.D. in Software Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. I was working under the supervision of Prof. Andrian (Andi) Marcus. Previously, I received my Masters and Bachelor's degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) both in Software Engineering.

Publications

2023

A. Ghanbari, D-G. Thomas, M. A. Arshad, and H. Rajan: "Mutation-based Fault Localization of Deep Neural Networks", Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, September 2023, 13 pages to appear. [DOI]
Distinguished Paper Award

2022

A. Ghanbari, A. Marcus: "Shibboleth: Hybrid Patch Correctness Assessment in Automated Program Repair", Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2022), Rochester, MI, USA, October 2022, pp. 1--4. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari, A. Marcus: "Faster Mutation Analysis with MeMu", Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022), Virtual Event, July 2022, pp. 781--784. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari, A. Marcus: "Patch Correctness Assessment in Automated Program Repair Based on the Impact of Patches on Production and Test Code", Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022), Virtual Event, July 2022, pp. 654--665. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari: "Revisiting Object Similarity-based Patch Ranking in Automated Program Repair: An Extensive Study", IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR 2022), Virtual Event, May 2022, pp. 16--23. [DOI]

2021

A. Ghanbari, A. Marcus: "Toward Speeding up Mutation Analysis by Memoizing Expensive Methods", Proceedings of the 43rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER 2022), Virtual Event, May 2021, pp. 71--75. [DOI]

2020

A. Ghanbari, A. Marcus: "PRF: A Framework for Building Automatic Program Repair Prototypes for JVM-Based Languages", Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020), Virtual Event, November 2020, pp. 1570--1573. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari: "ObjSim: Lightweight Automatic Patch Prioritization via Object Similarity", Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020), Virtual Event, July 2020, pp. 541--544. [DOI]
Y, Lou, A. Ghanbari, X. Li, L. Zhang, Z. Haotian, D. Hao, and L. Zhang: "Can Automated Program Repair Refine Fault Localization? A Unified Debugging Approach", Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020), Virtual Event, July 2020, pp. 75--87. [DOI]

2019

A. Ghanbari, L. Zhang: "PraPR: Practical Program Repair via Bytecode Mutation", Proceedings of the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), San Diego, CA, USA, November 2020, pp. 1118--1121. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari: "Toward Practical Automatic Program Repair", Proceedings of the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: Student Reseatch Competition (ASE-SRC 2019), San Diego, CA, USA, November 2020, pp. 1118--1121. [DOI]
A. Ghanbari, S. Benton, and L. Zhang: "Practical Program Repair via Bytecode Mutation", Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), Beijing, China, July 2019, pp. 19--30. [DOI]
S. Benton, A. Ghanbari, and L. Zhang: "Defexts: A Curated Dataset of Reproducible Real-world Bugs for Modern JVM Languages", Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2019, pp. 47--50. [DOI]

Ali Ghanbari, Ph.D.

CIFellows Postdoctoral Research Associate