Name:Abhik Roychoudhury

Bio:

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 engineering (TSS group). He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2000, and has been a faculty member at NUS School of Computing since 2001. Research works from Abhik’s group at NUS have impacted both the theory and practice of software engineering over the years. Works on semantic program repair helped build the foundations of program repair as a field. The group’s ideas on program repair and specification inference led to research on building trusted AI agents for code, such as AutoCodeRover. This led to the acquisition of a NUS spinoff in 2025, and a commercial product SonarQube Remediation Agent announced in 2026. The group’s works on fuzz testing have contributed to the understanding of secure software engineering. Fuzzing technologies from the group have reduced the usability barrier to software vulnerability discovery in actual practice, made possible by implicitly incoporating ideas from symbolic analysis into fuzzing frameworks.

Abhik was the inaugural recipient of the NUS Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Doctoral students graduated from his research team have taken up faculty positions in many top academic institutions, and they have gone on to receive many prestigious early career awards, including ACM-W Rising Star Award given to only one female faculty in Computing. Abhik has served the software engineering research community in various capacities including as chair of the major conferences (ICSE and FSE), as well 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 a member of the editorial board of Communications of the ACM. His research works have been honored with various awards including an International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Most Influential Paper Award (Test-of-time award) for symbolic analysis based program repair, and IEEE New Directions Award 2022 for contributions to symbolic execution. Abhik is a Fellow of the ACM, for contributions to program repair and fuzz testing.

Abhik is originally from Calcutta, India and is curently settled in Singapore as a (naturalised) citizen. Apart from his full-time affiliation with NUS, he has also been a Senior Scientific Advisor at SonarSource (since 2025), and a co-director at the Descartes program from CNRS (since 2021).

Country:Singapore

Affiliation:National University of Singapore

Research interests:Program Analysis, Software Testing, Software Security, Trustworthy Systems