The HKUST software engineering and programming languages community hosts a bi-weekly seminar series at flexible times. To receive seminar announcements, please subscribe to the "sepl-seminar" mailing list.
| Date | Room | Speaker | Topic |
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| 9 Dec 2024 (Mon) at 2 pm | 2128A | Zhe Zhou (Purdue) | A HAT Trick: Automatically Verifying Representation Invariants Using Symbolic Finite Automata |
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| Date | Room | Speaker | Topic |
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| 7 Oct 2024 (Mon) at 1:30 pm | 5562 | Luyu Cheng | Diff-based interactive compiler debugging and testing (LIVE 2024) |
| Cunyuan Gao | Seamless Scope-Safe Metaprogramming Through Polymorphic Subtype Inference (GPCE 2024) | ||
| 2 Oct 2024 (Wed) at 1:30 pm | 5562 | Chun Kit Lam | Fast and Optimal Extraction for Sparse Equality Graphs (OOPLA 2024) |
| Luyu Cheng | The Ultimate Conditional Syntax (OOPLA 2024) | ||
| 3 Sep 2024 (Tue) at 2 pm | 3598 | Darko Marinov (UIUC) | A Decade of Research and Teaching on Flaky Tests |
| 2 Sep 2024 (Mon) at 4 pm | LTF | Alvin Cheung (UC Berkeley) | Using Deep Learning for Coding Tasks (CSE Seminar) |
| 16 Aug 2024 (Fri) | 5508 | Yijia Chen | The Long Way to Deforestation: A Type Inference and Elaboration Technique for Removing Intermediate Data Structures (ICFP 2024) |
| 31 Jul 2024 (Wed) | 3523 | Chengfeng Ye | When Threads Meet Interrupts: Effective Static Detection of Interrupt-Based Deadlocks in Linux (USENIX Security 2024) |
| 19 Jul 2024 (Fri) at 10:30 am | 4503 | Jun Sun (Singapore Management University) | AI Safety Evaluation, Mitigation and Certification: the Backdoor Example |
| 18 Jul 2024 (Thu) at 10:30 am | 2302 | Djordje Zikelic (Singapore Management University) | Neural Controller Synthesis and Verification with Guarantees |
| 15 Jul 2024 (Mon) at 1 pm | 4502 | Thomas Henzinger (IST Austria) | History-Determinism and Other Recent Developments in Graph Games (CSE Seminar) |
| 24 Jun 2024 (Mon) at 1 pm | 5510 | Anton Soldatov (Huawei Russian Research Institute) | ArkTS language for OpenHarmony: Principles, Evolution, Challenges |
| 5 Jun 2024 (Wed) at 2 pm | 3523 | S Akshay (IIT Bombay) | Tractable Representations for Boolean Functional Synthesis |
| 22 May 2024 (Wed) | 1410 | Chenhao Zhang (Northwestern) | Karp: A Language for Reduction |
| 20 May 2024 (Mon) at 3 pm | 4580 | Yang Liu (Nanyang) | A Road Towards an Interaction between Cyber Security and AIGC (CSE Seminar) |
| 8 May 2024 (Wed) at 2 pm | 3598 | James Koppel (Mirdin and Up To Speed) | Hidden depths of programming knowledge |
| 8 May 2024 (Wed) at 1 pm | 3520 | Chun Kit Lam | Practical Constant-Time Memory Management for Functional Programming (FLOPS 2024) |
| 26 Apr 2024 (Fri) | 3523 | Hao Ling | GIANTSAN: Efficient Memory Sanitization with Segment Folding (ASPLOS 2024) |
| Anshunkang Zhou | Plankton: Reconciling Binary Code and Debug Information (ASPLOS 2024) | ||
| 10 Apr 2024 (Wed) | 3520 (Zoom) | Pingchuan Ma | Enabling Runtime Verification of Causal Discovery Algorithms with Automated Conditional Independence Reasoning (ICSE 2024) |
| 3520 | Wai Kin Wong | BinAug: Enhancing Binary Similarity Analysis with Low-Cost Input Repairing (ICSE 2024) | |
| 28 Mar 2024 (Thu) | 4502 | Shaohua Li (ETH Zurich) | Advancing Software Reliability: A Journey from Code to Compilation |
| 30 Jan 2024 (Tue) at 4 pm | 5506 | Mingshuai Chen (Zhejiang University) | Reasoning about Loopy Probabilistic Programs |
| 24 Jan 2024 (Wed) | 1410 | Lingming Zhang (UIUC) | Towards Better Software Quality in the Era of Large Language Models |
| 11 Jan 2024 (Thu) at 3 pm | 3523 | Chengpeng Wang | LLMDFA: A Data-Flow Analysis Framework with Large Language Models |
| 11 Jan 2024 (Thu) at 10 am | 4503 | Leonardo Mariani (University of Milano-Bicocca) | Failure Analysis in CPS Simulink Models |
| 9 Jan 2024 (Tue) at 11 am | 3520 | Lionel Parreaux | When Subtyping Constraints Liberate (POPL 2024) |
| 22 Nov 2023 (Wed) | 3523 | Jialun Cao | Testing Coreference Resolution Systems without Labeled Test Sets (FSE 2023) |
| 8 Nov 2023 (Wed) | Zoom | Dongdong She | Large Language Model Meets Program Analysis |
| 19 Oct 2023 (Thu) at 4 pm | 1103 | Yizheng Chen (University of Maryland) | Robust AI for Security (CSE Seminar) |
| 18 Oct 2023 (Wed) | 3523 | Ishan Bhanuka | Getting into the Flow: Towards Better Type Error Messages for Constraint-Based Type Inference (OOPSLA 2023) |
| Yuandao Cai | A Cocktail Approach to Practical Call Graph Construction (OOPSLA 2023) | ||
| 13 Oct 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | Zhuo Cai | Asparagus: Automated Synthesis of Parametric Gas Upper-bounds for Smart Contracts (OOPSLA 2023) |
| Ahmed Zaher | Exploiting the Sparseness of Control-flow and Call Graphs for Efficient and On-demand Algebraic Program Analysis (OOPSLA 2023) | ||
| 12 Oct 2023 (Thu) at 11 am | CYTG003 (behind Subway) | Naijun Zhan (ISCAS) | Non-Linear Interpolant Synthesis and its Application to Program Verification |
| 9 Oct 2023 (Mon) at 4 pm | LTF | Naijun Zhan (ISCAS) | Synthesizing (Differential) Invariants by Reduction Non-Convex Programming to SDP (CSE Seminar) |
| 27 Sep 2023 (Wed) at 2:30 pm | 3520 | Hitarth Singh | Algebro-geometric Algorithms for Template-based Synthesis of Polynomial Programs (OOPSLA 2023) |
| 3520 (Zoom) | Giovanna Kobus Conrado | The Bounded Pathwidth of Control-flow Graphs (OOPSLA 2023) | |
| 22 Sep 2023 (Fri) at 9 am - 6 pm | IAS4042 Seminar Room, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building | Multiple Invited Speakers | Emerging Trends in Software Development Workshop 2023 (IAS Workshop) |
| 18 Sep 2023 (Mon) at 4 pm | LTF | Dirk Riehle (University of Erlangen) | Creating a ROS 2 distribution (CSE Seminar) |
| 13 Sep 2023 (Wed) | 3523 | Kim-Ee Yeoh (invited speaker) | Why Johnny Can’t Monad: Debugging the Infinite Loop of Monad Tutorials |
| 15 Sep 2023 (Fri) | 5510 | Chenglin Wang | Solving Conditional Linear Recurrences for Program Verification: The Periodic Case (OOPSLA 2023) |
| 7 Sep 2023 (Thu) at 3:30 pm | Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building | Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano) | Reflecting on the Digital Revolution: From a Historical Perspective to a Call for Action (IAS Seminar) |
| 1 Sep 2023 (Fri) | Zoom | Tsz On Li | Nuances are the Key: Unlocking ChatGPT to Find Failure-Inducing Tests with Differential Prompting (ASE 2023) |
| Dongwei Xiao | PHYFU: Fuzzing Modern Physics Simulation Engines (ASE 2023) | ||
| Zhenlan Ji | PERFCE: Performance Debugging on Databases with Chaos Engineering-Enhanced Causality Analysis (ASE 2023) | ||
| 18 Aug 2023 (Fri) | 4213 | Petr Novotný (Masaryk University) | Code and Design Safety of Probabilistic Systems |
| 18 Aug 2023 (Fri) | 4475 | Julian Dolby (IBM) | Automatically Debugging AutoML Pipelines Using Maro: ML Automated Remediation Oracle (CSE Seminar) |
| 7 Aug 2023 (Mon) at 4 pm | 2463 | Zu-Ming Jiang (ETH Zurich) | Effective Bug Detection for Database Management Systems: Complex-Query Generation and Oracle Construction (CSE Seminar) |
| 4 Aug 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | Yuandao Cai | Place Your Locks Well: Understanding and Detecting Lock Misuse Bugs (USENIX Security 2023) |
| Zhibo Liu | Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables (USENIX Security 2023) | ||
| 14 Jul 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | Jiajun Hu | ωTest: WebView-Oriented Testing for Android Applications (ISSTA 2023) |
| Haoyang Ma | Fuzzing Deep Learning Compilers with HirGen (ISSTA 2023) | ||
| 12 Jul 2023 (Wed) | 3523 | Yuzhou Fang | Beyond “Protected” and “Private”: An Empirical Security Analysis of Custom Function Modifiers in Smart Contracts (ISSTA 2023) |
| Zhibo Liu | Exploring Missed Optimizations in WebAssembly Optimizers (ISSTA 2023) | ||
| 7 Jul 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | Huaxun Huang | ConfFix: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Issues in Android Apps (ISSTA 2023) |
| 23 Jun 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | Andong Fan | super-charging Object-Oriented Programming through Precise Typing of Open Recursion (ECOOP 2023) |
| Chengpeng Wang | Synthesizing Conjunctive Queries for Code Search (ECOOP 2023) | ||
| 21 Jun 2023 (Wed) | 4475 | Yi Li (Nanyang) | Finding Permission Bugs in Smart Contracts with Role Mining (CSE Seminar) |
| 7 Jun 2023 (Wed) | Zoom | Haoran Xu (Stanford) | Deegen: a meta-compiler approach for high performance VMs at low engineering cost |
| 29 May 2023 (Mon) | 5566 | Wing Lam (GMU) | Systematic and Lightweight Techniques to Preempt Flaky Tests (CSE Seminar) |
| 26 May 2023 (Fri) | 3523 | James Koppel (Mirdin) | Meta-metaprogramming (CSE Seminar) |
| 10 May 2023 (Wed) | 3523 | Zhenlan Ji | CC: Causality-Aware Coverage Criterion for Deep Neural Networks (ICSE 2023) |
| Chengpeng Wang | Verifying Data Constraint Equivalence in FinTech Systems (ICSE 2023) | ||
| Dongwei Xiao | Metamorphic Shader Fusion for Testing Graphics Shader Compilers (ICSE 2023) |
Contact Jiasi Shen (sjs@cse.ust.hk) with questions or slot reservations.