About
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Dalhousie University, member of the SMART lab and advised by Dr. Tushar Sharma. My main research area is AI4SE. Specifically, I am interested in building AI systems that reason about software more efficiently and robustly, while also understanding how such models develop their reasoning about software. I pursue this by developing techniques that reduce unnecessary computation and by designing benchmarks that assess model capabilities beyond surface-level performance metrics. Ultimately, my goal is to develop AI systems that understand what matters in software tasks and can act effectively without relying on excessive computation or brute-force search.
Teaching
Since the start of my Ph.D., I have acted as a (Head) Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
- CSCI 5308: Advanced Software Development Concepts: Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2025.
- CSCI 6314: Machine Learning for Software Engineering: Winter 2024, Winter 2025, Winter 2026.
- CSCI 3130: Introduction to Software Engineering: Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
- CSCI 6520: NLP with Deep Learning: Summer 2024, Winter 2025.
- CSCI x691: Project Course: Fall 2024.
Service
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Conferences:
- ICML'26 (DL4Code Workshop)
- FSE'26 (Artifact Evaluation)
- MSR 24-26 Research Track (Junior PC)
- ICLR’25 (DL4Code Workshop)
- NeurIPS’25 (DL4Code Workshop)
- CASCON’25 (Artifact Evaluation)
- SANER’26 (Industry Track)
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Journals:
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2026)
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2025)
- Journal of Systems and Software (2023, 2024)
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External Reviewer:
- ICSME 2023-2024
- ICSE 2024
- EASE 2023
- FSE 2023
- ICPC 2023
- SANER 2024
- SCAM 2022-2024