Current Team

    ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science

    Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab

  • Prof. Zhendong Su  Professor | CNB H 102  zhendong.su@inf.ethz.ch 

  • Dr. Tracy Ewen  Administration/Scientific Coordination | CNB H 107.1 tracy.ewen@inf.ethz.ch  
         
    Postdoctoral Scholars

    Dr. Pinjia He  CNB H 103.1 pinjia.he@inf.ethz.ch  
    Dr. Manuel Rigger  CNB H 101 manuel.rigger@inf.ethz.ch 
    Dr. Daming Zou   CNB H 103.1  daming.zou@inf.ethz.ch 

    PhD Students

    Shaohua Li CNB H 103.1 shaohua.li@inf.ethz.ch  
    Theodoros Theodoridis CNB H 101 theodoros.theodoridis@inf.ethz.ch 
    Sverrir Thorgeirsson  CNB H 103.2 sverrir.thorgeirsson@inf.ethz.ch   
    Dominik Winterer  CNB H 103.2 dominik.winterer@inf.ethz.ch

    Visiting Scholars

    Haochen He  visiting PhD student, CNB H 103.2
    Jue Wang  visiting PhD student, CNB H 100.9

    ETH Thesis Students

    Hannes Pfammatter  ETH Master student, Fall 2020, with Manuel Rigger
    Andrin Bertschi  ETH Bachelor thesis student, Spring 2020, with Manuel Rigger/Ting Su
    Ondrej Cernin  ETH Bachelor thesis student, Spring 2020, with Manuel Rigger  

    Alumni

    Ting Su (Postdoctoral Scholar, 06.2019 -- 09.2020)
    Roxana Mafteiu-Scai (Undergraduate intern, 02.2020 -- 07.2020)
    Clara Meister (Research assistant, 01.2019 -- 02.2020)
    Ishaan Ghandi (Undergraduate intern, 02.2020 -- 06.2020)
    Xi Deng (Visiting PhD Student, 10.2019 -- 03.2020)
    Yichen Yan (Visiting PhD Student, 05.2019 -- 12.2019)
    Sahil Verma (Undergraduate intern, 06.2019 -- 09.2019)
    Daming Zou (Visiting PhD student, 09.2018 -- 09.2019)
    Roxana Mafteiu-Scai (Summer research fellow, 07.2019 -- 08.2019)
    Dr. Shuai Wang (Postdoctoral Scholar, 08.2018 -- 07.2019)
    Shashij Gupta (Undergraduate intern, 09.05.2019 -- 14.07.2019)
    Jiang Zhang (Undergraduate intern, 01.03.2019 -- 30.06.2019)

    Completed BSc/MSc Theses

    Andy Nguyen (ETH Bachelor thesis student, Spring 2019, with Shuai Wang)
    Loris Reiff (ETH Bachelor thesis student, Spring 2019, with Shuai Wang)

    UC Davis: Software Systems Group
  • Nima Johari (Ph.D. candidate, 2014 -- present, co-advised with John Owens)
  • Michael Yen (B.S./M.S., 2014 -- present)

    Alumni

    Students

  • Dr. Tianxiao Gu (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2017 -- 2019)
    • Current employment: Senior Engineer, Alibaba Group, CA, USA
  • Suhua Lei (M.S., 2019)
    • Project: How Training Data Affect the Accuracy and Robustness of Neural Networks
    • Current employment: TBD; seeking full-time software engineering positions
  • Yuanbo Li (B.S., 2019)
    • Current: Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech (starting Fall 2019)
  • Dr. Qirun Zhang (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2014 -- 2018)
    • Current employment: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
  • Martin Velez (Ph.D., 2018)
    • Thesis: Minimizing Technical Barriers to Learning Programming
    • Current employment: Advanced Technologies Group, Uber
  • Ke Wang (Ph.D., 2018)
    • Thesis: Capturing Solution Tactics for Effective, Scalable Personalized Learning
    • Current employment: Researcher, Visa Research
  • Kenan Nalbant (M.S., 2018)
    • Project: Oppel: An Adversarial Machine Learning Toolbox
    • Current employment: Citadel
  • Donald Pinckney (B.S., 2018)
    • Current: Computer Science PhD student at UMass Amherst
    • Awards: UCD CS Outstanding Senior (2018)
  • Matt Le (B.S., 2017)
    • Current: Server Engineer, Skillz
  • Dr. Zhoulai Fu (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2014 -- 2017)
    • Current employment: Assistant Professor, ITU
  • Dr. Chengnian Sun (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2013 -- 2017)
    • Current employment: Google (to start tenure-track position at Waterloo in July 2019)
  • Alexander Couvrette (M.S., 2017)
    • Project: C++ Made Simple --- An Online Learning System
    • Current employment: Developer, Wynn Casino, Las Vegas
  • Mehrdad Afshari (Ph.D., 2016)
    • Thesis: Reimagining the Programming Experience
    • Current employment: Google TBD
    • Awards: ACM SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award (2014)
  • Calvin Li (M.S., 2016)
    • Project: Generating Raven's Progressive Matrices on iOS
    • Current employment: Microsoft
  • Vu Minh Le (Ph.D., 2015)
    • Thesis: Program Synthesis for Empowering End Users and Stress-Testing Compilers
    • Current employment: Senior Research Software Engineer, Microsoft
    • Awards: ACM SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award (2014)
  • Andreas Saebjoernsen (Ph.D., 2014)
    • Thesis: Detecting Fine-Grained Similarity in Binaries
    • Current employment: LLNL Uber
  • You Zhou (B.S., 2014)
    • Current: Computer Science Master's Program at Stanford
    • Awards: UCD CS "Citation of Excellence" (2014)
    • Current employment: Facebook
  • Dr. Zhaopeng Tu (Postdoctoral Scholar, 07/2013 -- 07/2014; co-advisor)
    • Current employment: Senior Researcher, Tencent AI Lab
  • Zhongxian Gu (Ph.D., 2013)
    • Thesis: Toward Effective Debugging by Capturing and Reusing Knowledge
    • Current employment: Facebook
  • Fangqi (Sophia) Sun (Ph.D., 2013)
    • Thesis: Program Analyses of Web Applications for Detecting Application-Specific Vulnerabilities
    • Current employment: Google
  • Liang (Dennis) Xu (Ph.D., 2013)
    • Thesis: Techniques and Tools for Analyzing and Understanding Android Applications
    • Current employment: Pandora Instagram Facebook
  • Drew April Schleck (B.S., 2013)
    • Current employment: Google
    • Awards: UCD CS "Citation of Excellence" (2013)
  • Earl Barr (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2009-2012)
    • Current employment: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University College London
    • Awards: I3P Fellow (2009-2010), UCD Outstanding Postdoc Finalist (2011-2012)
  • Taeho Kwon (Ph.D., 2011)
    • Thesis: Detecting and Analyzing Insecure Component Integration
    • Current employment: Researcher, Ministry of National Defense, Korea
    • Awards: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (2010)
  • Thanh Vo (M.S., 2011)
    • Thesis: Automatic Detection of Floating-Point Exceptions
    • Current employment: Sybase Netcompany
  • Mark Gabel (Ph.D., 2011)
    • Thesis: Inferring Programmer Intent and Related Errors from Software
    • Current employment: Assistant Professor, UT Dallas Viv Labs, Chief Scientist
    • Awards: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award (2012)
                    Zuhair A. Munir Best Dissertation Award (2013)
  • Steven Hillman (B.S., 2010)
    • Current employment: Cisco Talnts Hyperloop One
    • Awards: UCD CS "Citation of Excellence" (2010)
  • Yuting Tim Xiao (B.S., 2010)
    • Current employment: YouTube
    • Awards: UCD CS "Citation of Excellence" (2010)
  • Lingxiao Jiang (Ph.D., 2009)
    • Thesis: Scalable Detection of Similar Code: Techniques and Applications
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, Singapore Management University
  • Jeffrey Yuen (M.S., 2009)
    • Current employment: Tata Consultancy Services
  • Gary Wassermann (Ph.D., 2008)
    • Thesis: Techniques and Tools for Engineering Secure Web Applications
    • Current employment: HP Riverbed Technology, Member of Technical Staff
  • Jed Crandall (Ph.D., 2007, co-advisor)
    • Thesis: Capturing and Analyzing Internet Worms
    • Current employment: Full Professor and Associate Chair, University of New Mexico
    • Awards: NSF CAREER Award (2009)
  • Ghassan Misherghi (M.S., 2007)
    • Thesis: Hierarchical Delta Debugging
    • Current employment: Google
  • Derrick Pallas (M.S., 2005, co-advisor)
    • Current employment: Argosy Labs, Co-founder & CTO
  • Carl Gould (B.S., 2003; M.S. candidate, 2004)
    • Current employment: Inductive Automation
    • Awards: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (2004)

    Visitors

  • Fengjuan Gao (PhD student, NJU, 2017 -- 2018)
  • Tao Ji (PhD student, NUDT, 2017 -- 2018)
  • Yu Wang (PhD student, NJU, 2017 -- 2018)
  • Dr. Amin Alipour (Assistant Professor, Univ. of Houston, 12/2017 -- 04/2018)
  • Ming Wen (PhD student, HKUST, 07/2017 -- 01/2018)
  • Dr. Hongli Yang (Professor, BJUT, 2016 -- 2017)
  • Hengbiao Yu (PhD student, NUDT, 2015 -- 2016)
  • Dingbao Xie (PhD student, Nanjing University, 09/2014 -- 09/2015)
  • Han Liu (PhD student, Tsinghua University, 04/2015 -- 09/2015)
  • Dr. Yuting Chen (Associate Professor, SJTU, 09/2014 -- 08/2015)
  • Ting Su (Ph.D. student from ECNU, 02/2014 -- 02/2015)
  • Hanfei Wang (Ph.D. student from Nanjing University, 12/2013 -- 12/2014)
  • Tianxiao Gu (PhD student, Nanjing University, 09/2013 -- 09/2014)
  • Yan Lei (PhD student, NUDT, 09/2013 -- 09/2014)
  • Dr. Guisheng Fan (Associate Professor, ECUST, Shanghai, 06/2013 -- 06/2014)
  • Dr. Liqiong Chen (Associate Professor, SIT, Shanghai, 06/2013 -- 06/2014)
  • Dr. Hao Zhong (Associate Professor, ISCAS => SJTU, 09/2012 -- 05/2014)
  • Linfeng Liu (Ph.D. student from XJTU, China, 09/2011 -- 03/2013)
  • Qirun Zhang (Ph.D. student from CUHK, 10/2012 -- 12/2012)
  • You Li (Ph.D. student from NJU, China, 09/2011 -- 09/2012)
    • Awards: OOPSLA Best Paper Award (2013)
  • Dong Qiu (Ph.D. student from SEU, China, 09/2011 -- 09/2012)
  • Enyi Tang (Ph.D. student, Nanjing University, China, 09/2008 -- 09/2009)
  • Kyung-Goo Doh (Professor, Hanyang University, Korea, 02/2005-08/2006)
  • Stephane Glondu (ENS Cachan, France, 06/2005-08/2005)