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Prem Devanbu is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UC Davis. He received his B.Tech from IIT Madras, and his Ph.D from Rutgers University under Alex Borgida. After a career in Industrial R&D at Bell Labs in New Jersey, he joined UC Davis. He has worked in several areas, including Software tools, Secure Data Outsourcing, Empirical Software Engineering, and the Naturalness of Software, and applications thereof. Five of his papers (in MSR 2006, MSR 2009, ESEC/FSE 2008, ESEC/FSE 2009, ESEC/FSE 2011) have won “test-of-time” or “10 year most influential paper” awards. He also won the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2021, “for profoundly changing the way researchers think about software by exploring connections between source code and natural language”. He is an ACM Fellow.
Contributions
2022
ICSE
- Multilingual training for Software Engineering
- Learning Lenient Parsing & Typing via Indirect Supervision
- Learning to Find Usages of Library Functions in Optimized Binaries
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Technical Track-track
- Session Chair of BoF 18: Research Impact in Software Engineering (part of Birds of a Feather)
- The Naturalness of Software, and the roots and branches thereof
Mining Software Repositories
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