Wei Le  Associate Professor CV

Computer Science, Iowa State University

Research interests: trustworthy software and AI

     



If you are interested in machine learning for code, machine learning for medicine, or analyzing AI models and code, please send your CV to weile@iastate.edu. I am mostly looking for PhD students, but exceptional master and undergraduate students will also be considered.

Recent Work

Dataflow Analysis-Inspired Deep Learning for Efficient Vulnerability Detection, ICSE 2024

TRACED: Execution-aware Pre-training for Source Code, ICSE 2024

Towards Understanding and Enhancing Robustness of Deep Learning Models against Malicious Unlearning Attacks, KDD 2023

Reducing Branch Divergence to Speed up Parallel Execution of Unit Testing on GPUs, The Journal of Supercomputing 2023

Research Interests

   

I am interested in trustworthy software and AI, program and AI model analysis, and the intersection of software engineering and machine learning. I work with Program Analysis & AI Lab at Iowa State University on machine learning for code, machine learning for medicine, software and AI model analysis and debugging, and automating software engineering tasks of bug detection, testing, debugging and repair.

Selected Research Papers  

    [ICSE23] An Empirical Study of Deep Learning Models for Vulnerability Detection [artifact]
    [ICSE23] GameRTS: A Regression Testing Framework for Video Games [artifact] [talk]
    [ASE22] FuzzerAid: Grouping Fuzzed Crashes Based On Fault Signatures
    [ICSE22] DeepDiagnosis: Automatically Diagnosing Faults and Recommending Actionable Fixes in Deep Learning Programs [artifact]
    [ICSE22] DeepStability: A Study of Unstable Numerical Methods and Their Solutions in Deep Learning [artifact]
    [ICML21] RNNRepair: Automatic RNN Repair via Model-based Analysis [artifact]
    [ISSTA21] Validating Static Warnings via Testing Code Fragments [artifact], [ISSTA21 talk]
    [ICSE21] DeepLocalize: Fault Localization for Deep Neural Networks [artifact]
    [TSE19] Specifying Callback Control Flow of Mobile Apps Using Finite Automata
    [TSE17] Automatic Loop Summarization via Path Dependency Analysis
    [FSE16] Proteus: Computing Disjunctive Loop Summary via Path Dependency Analysis (Distinguished Paper)
    [ICSE16] Generating Performance Distributions via Probabilistic Symbolic Execution
    [ICSE14] Patch Verification via Multiversion Interprocedural Control Flow Graphs [open source code]
    [ICSE13] Segmented Symbolic Analysis
    [TOSEM13] Marple: Detecting Faults in Path Segments Using Automatically Generated Analyses
    [FSE10] Path-Based Fault Correlations
    [FSE08] Marple, A Demand-Driven Path-Sensitive Buffer Overflow Detector (Best FSE presentation)

Teaching

    2016-2024 Fall/Spring: COM S 342 Principles of Programming Languages

    2016-2023 Fall/Spring: COM S 413, COM S/CPRE 513 Program Analysis

    2020 Spring: COM S 665A Advanced Topics -- the Intersection of Software Engineering and Machine Learning

Professional Activities

    Co-chairing: ISSTA 2021 Doctoral Symposium, ICSE 2020 Co-located Events, 2018 Midwest Big Data Summer School Software Analytics Track, ESEC/FSE 2017 Doctoral Symposium, ICST 2017 Workshop, ICST 2016 Testing Tool Demo

    PC/Journal Review: ICSE 2023/2022/2021/2019/2016, FSE 2024/2022/2020/2019/2018, ASE 2021/2018/2016, ISSTA 2024/2020/2015, CAIN 2022, TSE 2021/2017/2016/2015, TOSEM 2019/2016/2015/2014, ICST 2016, ICSE 2015 Demonstration, ICPC 2014 ERA, MOBS 2013, WAM 2023

    Panelist: NSF 2022/2019/2018/2016/2014/2013, DOE 2016/2015, NIH 2022

    STEM Volunteering: Instructor @ Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry 2017-2022, SIGSOFT CAPS coordinator: 2014-2015