I am a PhD student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, advised by Dr. Tim Menzies. I work on efficient AI for Software Engineering.
Research
My research focuses on LLMs and agentic AI systems for active learning, differential fuzzing, and reasoning distillation.
Current projects:
- Can domain knowledge improve LLM generated warm starts for SE optimization?
- Are LLM agents good differential oracles?
- Label efficient text mining in Literature Reviews (Active learning): EZR - Easier AI
Past work:
In Summer 2026, I interned at Google in Seattle, working on long-horizon agents for root cause analysis, self-improvement, and agent alignment.
During my masters at NC State, I worked with Dr. Jiajia Li on accelerating compressed/tensorized transformers. In my undergrad, I worked at the AeroAcoustics lab at IIT Madras on complex-valued regression to localize and reconstruct acoustic signals. At Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI I worked on predictive modeling for NPTEL & 108 Ambulance service.
Milestones/News
- 04/2026: Passed my Written Preliminary Exam! (Slides here)
- 02/2026: new LLM optimization study accepted at MSR 2026 - Registered Report track!
- 02/2026: Selected as student volunteer for ICSE 2026!
- 01/2026: New preprint! SmartOracle: An Agentic Approach to Mitigate Noise in Differential Oracles
- 01/2026: MOOT: accepted at MSR 2026!
- 11/2025: New preprint! MOOT:a Repository of Many Multi-Objective Optimization Tasks
- 10/2025: New preprint on efficient uncertainty quantification
- 08/2025: Joined NC State as a PhD student
- 06/2024: Summer internship working on LLM Infra - Zero shot graph generation (Graph-RAG)
- 04/2024: New preprint on uncertainty quantification for OOD detection
- 08/2023: Joined NC State as a Masters student
- 02/2023: Published JASA paper on near-field acoustic holography using ML
- 08/2022: Joined Poshmark as a Software Engineer
- 01/2022: Joined Kaleris as a Software Engineer intern
- 07/2021: Joined Renault as a Software Engineer intern
Selected Publications
Service
ICSE 2027 Shadow PC
Teaching Assistantships
CSC510: Software Engineering (Fall 2026 at NC State)
CSC491/591: How to be a SWE Guru (Spring 2026 at NC State)
CSC591: Applied AI to Industry (Spring 2025 at NC State)
CSC591: Parallel Algorithms (Fall 2024 at NC State)
Mentoring
Masters Students
Sanjana Shreenivas (Summer 2025)
Undergrad Students
Manish Chepuri (Summer 2025)
Gaurinath Subash (Summer 2025)