I lead the Practical and Actionable Software Engineering Research (PASER) group at Auburn University. Members of the PASER group work on software engineering research problems that have implications for practitioners.

Advisees

Graduate Students

1. Md. Jahidul Arafat, PhD Student, Auburn University Web
2. Loi Huynh, PhD Student, Auburn University Web
3. Pemsith Mendis, PhD Student, Auburn University Web
4. Yinka Peter, PhD Student, Auburn University Web
5. Arpan Srivastava, PhD Student, Auburn University Web
6. Yue Zhang, PhD Student, Auburn University Web

Undergraduate Students

1. Hayden Walker, Undergraduate Student, Auburn University Web
2. Christos Argyropoulos, Undergraduate Student, Auburn University Web

Collaborators

1. Syed Rafiul Hussain, Assistant Professor, Penn State University Web
2. Rahul Pandita, Staff Researcher, GitHub, USA Web
3. Stacy Prowell, Distinguished Researcher, Oak Ridge National Lab, TN Web
4. Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu, Assistant Professor, Auburn University Web
5. Hossain Shahriar, Associate Director, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida Web
6. Anthony Skjellum, Director, SimCenter; Professor, Computer Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN Web
7. Fan Wu, Head and Professor of the Computer Science Department, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL Web

Alumni

1. Farzana Ahmed Bhuiyan (PhD), first appointment as research scientist at Meta (formerly known as Facebook)
2. Shazibul Islam Shamim, (PhD), first appointment as tenure-track assistant professor at Kennessaw State University
3. Dibyendu Brinto Bose (BSc), first appointment as PhD student at Virginia Tech
4. Carlos Medrano (BSc), first appointment as site reliability engineer at Google
5. Justin Murphy (MSc), first appointment as security analyst at CISA, DHS
6. Raunak Shakya (MSc), first appointment as software engineer at Energy Domain
7. Ayush Singh (MSc), first appointment as software engineer at Energy Domain
8. Wan-Syun “Anita” Cheng (MSc), first appointment as software engineer at Energy Domain
9. Carlos Rabat Villareal (MSc), first appointment as software engineer at Management Solutions
10. Anceito Rivera (BSc), first appointment as software engineer at SAIC

Noteworthy Achievements of PASERs

1. Pemsith Mendis, CSSE Best Poster Presentation Award, Auburn University, 2025
2. Christos Argyropoulos, Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Auburn University, 2025-2026
3. Md. Jahidul Arafat, Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship Award, Auburn University, 2024
4. Yue Zhang, 100+ Women Strong Outstanding Departmental Annual Graduate Award, Auburn University, 2024
5. Yue Zhang, Gavin Graduate Student Fellow, 2023-2026
6. Shazibul Islam Shamim, Bronze Award, Student Research Competition, ESEC/FSE 2021
7. Akond Rahman, Distinguished Reviewer, Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2021
8. Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 Nominee for the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, NC State University
9. Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 COE Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, NC State University
10. Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 CSC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, NC State University
11. Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan, Best Student Paper Award, 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) 2020
12. Akond Rahman, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2019 - Technical Track
13. Akond Rahman, ACM SIGSOFT Best Paper Award, ICSE 2018 - Doctoral Symposium
14. Akond Rahman, Microsoft Open Source Challenge 2016 - Grand Prize
15. Shazibul Islam Shamim, Best Poster Award, Bioinformatics and Stringology Conference (BIOS) 2015

Open Source Software

1. SLI-KUBE for Kubernetes Manifests
2. LOPSUL for Python-based Open Source ML Projects
3. TAMA for Ansible
4. SLAC for Ansible
5. SLIC for Puppet
6. ACID for Puppet