Abhik Roychoudhury is Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he leads a research team on Trustworthy and Secure Software (TSS). He is also a Senior Advisor at SonarSource, subsequent to the acquisition of his spinoff AutoCodeRover on AI-based coding, by Sonar. Abhik received his PhD in Computer Science from the Stony Brook University in 2000, and has been a faculty member at NUS School of Computing since 2001. Abhik’s research group at NUS is known for foundational contributions to software testing and analysis. Specifically the team has made contributions to automatic programming and automated program repair, as well as to fuzz testing for finding security vulnerabilities in software systems. These works have been honored with various awards including an International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Most Influential Paper Award (Test-of-time award) for program repair, IEEE New Directions Award 2022 (jointly with Cristian Cadar) for contributions to symbolic execution.
Abhik was the inaugural recipient of the NUS Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award 2024. Doctoral students graduated from his research team have taken up faculty positions in many academic institutions. He has served the software engineering research community in various capacities including as chair of the major conferences of the field, ICSE and FSE. Currently, he serves as chair of the FSE steering committee. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), and is a member of the editorial board of Communications of the ACM. Abhik is a Fellow of the ACM.