Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research
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Hi there, I am Saikat, currently a Senior Researcher at the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research. Earlier, I graduated with Ph.D. in omputer Science from Columbia University in the City of New York advised by Professor Baishakhi Ray. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Learning to Edit Code.
My primary research area is Software Engineering. In particular, I focus on Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE). My research passion is Programming Language Processing (PLP) -- A coalescence between Software Engineering and Machine Learning. More specifically, I am motivated by building tools and techniques that reduces software engineering practitioners' burden by automating tasks they have to undergo in their everyday job. Over the years, I have been building developer assistance tools with research collaboration across Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.
My primary research focus is divided into two parts ‐
- Source Code Understanding
- Source Code Generation
I have developed tools for Program Comprehension, Code Generation, Code Translation across PLs, Vulnerability Detection, and Modeling Program Changes/Program Repair. My future research interest is to push the boundary of machine understanding of source code and building tools for improving the software development pipeline(i.e., building better developer assisting tools) with Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Academics
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, August, 2022
Columbia University -
M.S. in Computer Science, 2021
Columbia University -
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
News
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July 2022: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation [thesis] [slide].
June 2022: NatGen is accepted in ESEC/FSE'22. [paper] [slide] [code]
March 2022: I talked about my research effort in Programming Language Processing at Auburn University. [slide]
March 2022: I talked about my research effort in Programming Language Processing at RiSE lab @ Microsoft Research. [slide]
March 2022: DISCO is accepted in ACL'22. [paper] [slide] [code]
Dec 2021: Another milestone towards PhD - passed the Ph.D. proposal. My dissertation committee accepted my thesis proposal. [proposal] [slide].
November 2021: I am giving a talk about our research effort in Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection in Source Code at National Security Agency (NSA). [slide]
November 2021: I am presenting our paper On Multi-Modal Learning of Editing Source Code at ASE. [slide]
September 2021: REDCODER is accepted in EMNLP-findings'21. [paper]
July 2021: MODIT is accepted in ASE'21. [paper]
June 2021: I am giving a talk about PLBART at IBM research. [slide]
June 2021: ReVeal is accepted in TSE. [paper]
June 2021: I am joining Facebook's BigCode research team as an intern for this summer.
May 2021: I am giving a talk about my research on Learning to Edit Code at UC Berkeley Programming Systems Research Seminar. [abstract] [slide]
April 2021: I am giving a talk about PLBART at UC Davis Decal Lab. [slide]
March 2021: I am giving a talk on our research effort in Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis at Open University, UK and Toshiba Lab, UK. [slide]
March 2021: PLBART is accepted in NAACL'21. [paper] [slide] [talk]
Jan 2021: I am serving as a Program Committee member in Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Programming .
Jan 2021: I am serving as a Program Committee member in MSR mining Challenge 2021 .
Dec 2020: Passed the Ph.D. Candidacy Exam. [abstract] [slide]
Aug 2020: CODIT is accepted to be publish in TSE. [paper] [slide]
May 2020: Our paper on Code Summarization is accepted in ACL 2020. [paper] [talk]
Feb 2020: I have built a line level Code Slice Extractor from C function. Feel Free to use, extend, and star the repository.