Sergey Mechtaev / 谢辽夏
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 Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Phone +44 7935 602 279
Email s.mechtaev@ucl.ac.uk

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at UCL Computer Science, a member of Software Systems Engineering and CREST. I received a PhD degree from the National University of Singapore, and a Specialist Diploma from Saint Petersburg State University. My research interests include software engineering, programming languages and formal methods.

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Publications

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Talks

  • Semantic Program Repair
    NUS Computing Research Week
    Singapore (via video conferencing), August 2020
  • Synthesis of Software Patches Using Symbolic Execution
    62nd CREST Open Workshop on Program Repair and GI
    London, United Kingdom, January 2020
  • Automated Repair of Security Vulnerabilities
    Shonan Meeting 160 on Fuzzing and Symbolic Execution
    Tokyo, Japan, September 2019

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Service

  • FSE 2023
    PC
  • FSE 2022 DS
    PC

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News

14/06/22 A paper describing Modus has been accepted to FSE'22.
16/03/22 A paper on fairness repair has been accepted to FairWare'22.
15/11/21 I am co-organising automated program repair workshop at ICSE 2022.
28/09/21 A paper on synthesising patches with side effects has been accepted to TSE.
03/02/21 An empirical study on API misuse repair has been accepted to TSE.
15/11/20 I am co-organising automated program repair workshop at ICSE 2021.
05/08/20 I have given a talk on semantic program repair at NUS Computing Research Week.

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Projects

  • Semantic Program Repair
    2013–Present
    The goal of this project is to develop a practical automated program repair system that uses semantic analysis to understands the meaning of code and is able to correctly fix complex software bugs.
  • Modus
    2022–Present
    A language for building Docker/OCI container images that uses logic programming to express interactions among build parameters, specify complex build workflows, automatically parallelise and cache builds, help to reduce image size, and simplify maintenance.

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Group

  • Passawis Chaiyapattanaporn (BSc)
    June 1–Present
    Summer internship supervisor.
  • Liu Yu (PhD, NUS/CREST)
    September 2020–Present
    Co-advisor. Other advisors: Abhik Roychoudhury, Emmanuel Letier
  • Nikhil Parasaram (PhD)
    September 2019–Present
    First supervisor. Second supervisor: Earl T. Barr

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Teaching

  • COMP0174 Practical Program Analysis
    January 2022–March 2022
    Lecturer
  • COMP0010 Software Engineering
    September 2021–December 2021
    Lecturer
  • COMP0010 Software Engineering
    September 2020–December 2020
    Lecturer

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