Aashish Yadavally

Bio:   I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the CS Department at the University of Central Florida.

I recently earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, where I was advised by Prof. Tien N. Nguyen. My research broadly lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering (SE). In particular, I explore if/how large language models understand and reason about program behaviors. More recently, I am interested in quantifying such understanding capabilities, and training the next generation of code reasoning models to optimize software development processes. My work has been recognized by the community with multiple accolades, including the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award.

We are hiring!   I am actively looking for brilliant students with a strong foundation and interest in programming languages, software engineering, and/or AI to join our research group, SAIL@UCF (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Lab). We are ranked #15 in Software Engineering in the United States on CSRankings (a metrics-based ranking of top CS institutions).

Feel free to reach out with a copy of your CV and background: aashish [dot] yadavally [at] ucf [dot] edu

Research Interests (TL;DR):   AI for Software Engineering, Software Security, Software Maintenance, Large Reasoning Models for Source Code

You can find me at the following Conferences or Events
  2024   OOPSLA (Pasadena, CA, USA), FSE (Porto de Galinhas, Brazil)
  2023   ESEC/FSE (San Francisco, CA, USA), ICSE (Melbourne, Australia)
  2022   ASE (Detroit, MI, USA), ICSE (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), SANER (Virtual)

Favourite Quotes

• “The future depends on what we do in the present.” ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• “If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.” ~ Dhirubhai Ambani