I greatly value the opportunity to train future leaders in software engineering through supervision and mentorship. I form productive relationships with students by providing research skills training, keeping communication open, being approachable, and encouraging students to pursue and share their own independent thinking about their projects, and develop their critical thinking and writing skills. I am committed to guiding students as they learn time-management skills in a research environment. In the past five years, many of my Ph.D. students have a successful publication record that is ready for the next stage of their career.
Current PhD Supervision at Monash University
1. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Saranya Alagarsamy (2021-current), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** AI for Software Testing **Achievements:** IST'24. 2. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Wannita Takerngsaksiri, Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Automated Code Completion **Achievements:** IST'24, ICSE-SEIP'25, A 9-months Atlassian PhD Internship Scholarship. 3. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Rui Yang, Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Enhancing the Safety of Large Language Models **Achievements:** 4. **(PhD, Co-Supervision) Fanyu Wang, Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Quality Assurance-driven Requirement Engineering **Achievements:** 5. **(PhD, Co-Supervision) Aaron Guan, Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Testing Large Language Models **Achievements:**
PhD Alumni
6. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Yeh Fu (2021-2025), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Toward More Effective Deep Learning-based Automated Software Vulnerability Prediction, Classification, and Repair **Achievements:** ASE'21, TSE'21, MSR'22, FSE'22. 7. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Chanathip Pornprasit (2020-2025), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Automated Software Quality Assurance **Achievements:** MSR'21, TSE'21, ASE'21, SANER'23 8. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Yang Hong (2021-2024), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Automated Code Review. **Achievements:** SANER'22, FSE'22, IST'24, FSE'24, a 3-month Atlassian PhD Internship Scholarship. 9. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Yue Liu (2021-2024), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Automated Malware Detection. **Achievements:** ACM Computing Survey, ISSRE'23. 10. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Danushka Pitivilaliyanage (2020-2023), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Security Gaurantees for Automated Software Testing. **Achievements:** ICSE'23, ICSE'24. 11. **(PhD, Co Supervision) Aastha Pant (2021-current), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Ethics in AI **Achievements:** ICSE'23, ICSE'24. 12. **(PhD, Main Supervision) Han Hu (2021-current), Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** Ethics in AI **Achievements:** ICSE'23, ICSE'24. 13. **Jirayus Jiarpakdee** (2017-2021, PhD, Main Supervision), Monash University, Australia. **Topic:** Towards Explainable Software Defect Prediction Models to Support SQA Planning **Achievements:** 3xTSE, 1xEMSE, 1xICSE, 1xICSME, 1xMSR, 1xAnnals of Emergency Medicine, 1xICSE-Doctoral Symposium
Honours/Master Alumni
14. **Suraj Yatish** (2019, Master of CS, Main Supervision), Monash University, Australia. **Topic:** Mining Software Defects: Should we Consider Affected Releases? **Achievements:** 1xICSE'19 15. **Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai** (2019-2020, Master of Engineering, Main Supervision), Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. **Topic:** Towards Line-Level Defect Prediction Models **Achievements:** 1xTSE'20 16. **Chaiyakarn Khanan, Worawit Luewichana, Krissakorn Pruktharathikoon (2019, Visiting Undergraduate Students, Main Supervision), Mahidol University, Thailand.** **Topic:** JITBot: An Explainable Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Bot **Achievements:** 1xASE-Tool Demo'20 17. **(1st Year Undergraduate Student) Yuki Kume, Monash University, Australia** **Topic:** AIBugHunter **Achievements:** EMSE'23