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Members

Current

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Rohan Padhye

Faculty & Principal Investigator

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Ao Li

SE PhD Student
(since 2020)

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Bella Laybourn

Undergraduate Researcher
(since 2021)

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Palash Oswal

MSIS-IT Student
(since 2022)

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Vasu Vikram

SE PhD Student
(since 2021)

Alumni

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Daniel Verdi do Amarante

REUSE Student
(Summer 2022)

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Kelton OBrien

REUSE Student
(Summer 2022)

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Nicole Nair

REUSE Student
(Summer 2022)

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Hita Kambhamettu

REUSE Student
(Summer 2021)

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John Billos

REUSE Student
(Summer 2021)

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Rafaello Sanna

REUSE Student
(Summer 2021)

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Tomi Oluwaseun-Apo

REUSE Student
(Summer 2021)

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Ben Gafford

MS-SE
(Graduated 2022)

Research

The PASTA group conducts research on Program Analysis, Software Testing, and Applications thereof. We are not afraid of spaghetti code. We often use dynamic analysis and grey-box fuzzing to identify software bugs or achieve other software engineering objectives.

Our members have developed program analysis and automated testing techniques for various applications and domains, including:

Our ongoing research targets several new challenges and domains including continuously evolving software, software-defined networks, and autonomous vehicles.

Ethos

Open Science

For science to make rapid and sustained progress, we believe that academic research should be made openly accessible, reproducible, and where artifacts exist, also directly reusable. To this end, we make the following commitments:

Ethics

We also believe in being responsible members of society and in working towards scientific advancement for good, not evil. We implement this outlook in the following ways:

Join Us

If our research and ethos are appealing to you, consider joining our group!

Prospective graduate students should apply to the Software Engineering PhD program at CMU.

Undergraduate students in the US can apply to the REUSE program to join our group for a summer.

If you are already enrolled in CMU as a student, send us an email from your Andrew address.

Alternatively, look out for one us at an ICSE.