活动预告｜智能化软件开发沙龙优秀学者报告·第2期：沈嘉思

智能化软件开发沙龙优秀学者报告

第2期

沈嘉思

内容简介

Title

Active Learning for Software Rejuvenation

Abstract

Software now plays a central role in numerous aspects of human society. Current software development practices involve significant developer effort in all phases of the software life cycle, including the development of new software, detection and elimination of defects and security vulnerabilities in existing software, maintenance of legacy software, and integration of existing software into more contexts, with the quality of the resulting software still leaving much to be desired. The goal of my research is to improve software quality and reduce costs by automating tasks that currently require substantial manual engineering effort.

I present a novel approach for automatic software rejuvenation, which takes an existing program, learns its core functionality as a black box, builds a model that captures this functionality, and uses the model to generate a new program. The new program delivers the same core functionality but is potentially augmented or transformed to operate successfully in different environments. This research enables the rejuvenation and retargeting of existing software and provides a powerful way for developers to express program functionality that adapts flexibly to a variety of contexts. In this talk, I will show how we applied these techniques to two classes of software systems, specifically database-backed programs and stream-processing computations, and discuss the broader implications of these approaches.

Biography

Jiasi Shen is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT EECS advised by professor Martin Rinard. She will be joining HKUST CSE as an Assistant Professor in January 2023. Jiasi received her master's degree from MIT and bachelor's degree from Peking University. Her main research interests are in programming languages and software engineering. She was named an EECS Rising Star in 2020.

时间安排

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时间：2022/5/30 9:00-10:30

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地点：腾讯会议（665-444-922）