Sumon Biswas
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Email: sumonb@andrew.cmu.edu
About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Software Research (ISR), Carnegie Mellon University. I am working with Dr. Eunsuk Kang on ensuring reliability of safety-critical AI based software systems. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University (ISU) under the supervision of Dr. Hridesh Rajan. For my dissertation, I worked on reasoning and improving algorithmic fairness in machine learning pipeline.
Research
My research interests are in the intersection of Software Engineering (SE), Programming Languages (PL), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Especially, my research focuses on the SE for AI area. I worked in the D4 (Dependable Data-Driven Discovery) Institute at ISU and focused on the dependability of data-driven software. Especially, my research unraveled several SE aspects, compositional reasoning, and verification of fairness property in real-world ML pipelines.
I also worked on mining open source repositories and conducted large-scale program analysis using the Boa framework. I built Python language support for the Boa compiler and analyzing machine learning (ML) programs and Jupyter Notebooks. I am interested in SE research using rich source of code and metadata available in GitHub, StackOverflow, Kaggle, and solve SE problems such as defect identification, dependability, modularity, software evolution, etc. I am also interested in reasoning and verifying of high-assurance AI components in software.
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- Software Engineering
- Programming Languages
- Artificial Intelligence
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2022
Iowa State University
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M.S. in Computer Science, 2020
Iowa State University
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B.Sc. in Information Technology, 2015
Jahangirnagar University
Experience
Publications
Accomplishments
Services
Reviewer @ TOSEM: Serving as a reviewer for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).
PC Member @ ASE'22: Serving as the Program Committee member of Late Breaking Results track of ASE 2022.
Reviewer @ TSE: Serving as the reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
PC Member @ ESEC/FSE'22: Serving as the Program Committee member of Doctoral Symposium track of ESEC/FSE 2022.
WiDS Ambassador: Served as the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Ambassador to organize and promote ISU event as part of the annual WiDS Worldwide Conference organized by Stanford University.
Artifact Evaluation Committee @ OOPSLA'21: Served in the program committee of artifact track of ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA'21) co-located at SPLASH 2021, Chicago, IL.
Accessibility Chair @ SPLASH'20-21: Served the organizing committee of ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications (SPLASH 2020 and SPLASH 2021) with OOPSLA, ECOOP and REBASE in Chicago, IL.
Shadow PC Member @ MSR'21: Served as the shadow program committee member at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), co-located with ICSE'21, Madrid, Spain.
Panelist @ ESEC/FSE'20: Served the panel discussion of the session on Fairness at ACM ESEC/FSE 2020 in Sacramento, CA.
Webmaster @ Midwest Big Data Summer School: Served in the organizing committee of the Midwest Big Data Summer School 2021 in Ames, IA, United States.
Research Projects
Component-level Fairness in Machine Learning Pipeline
We used causal reasoning to measure fairness of components and remove them from machine learning pipeline.
SE Concerns of Fairness in ML Models
We have studied the software engineering concerns of fairness in real-world machine learning models.
ML Repo Dataset from GitHub
This dataset is created by mining 5M Python program snapshots. The code is transformed to AST for static analysis.
Large-Scale Mining of Data-Science Software from GitHub
Mining and analyzing data-science repositories can provide insights from historical data.
Academic Projects
Recent News
| May 2022: | Joined ISR at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral Researcher |
| May 2022: | Received Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University. |
| Apr 2022: | Organized the Women in Data Science (WiDS) event at ISU and served as an ambassador of WiDS Global, Stanford University. |
| Apr 2022: | Defended my Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Reasoning Fairness in Machine Learning Pipelines”. |
| Apr 2022: | Awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ICSE'22 in-person at Pittsburgh. |
| Mar 2022: | Artifact accepted for my ICSE'22 paper on Data Science Pipelines. |
| Feb 2022: | Gave an invited talk at the CREATE SE4AI group organized by Concordia University, Polytechnique Montreal, Queen’s University, and University of Alberta |
| Dec 2021: | Paper accepted at ICSE'22 research track. |
| Aug 2021: | Present paper on Fair Preprocessing in ESEC/FSE'21. |
| July 2021: | Awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ESEC/FSE'21. |
| Jun 2021: | Artifact accepted for ESEC/FSE'21 paper on Fair Preprocessing. |
| Jun 2021: | Joined the program committee of the artifact track of OOPSLA'21. |
| Jun 2021: | Received publication award from ISU computer science department for publishing in the top-tier venues. |
| July 2020: | Attending ICSE 2021 conference. |
| Apr 2021: | Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'21 research track. |
| May 2021: | Passed the Ph.D. candidacy exam. |
| Jan 2021: | Selected for Shadow PC for the MSR'21 technical track. |
| Nov 2020: | Attending OOPSLA'21 conference. |
| Nov 2020: | Present paper on ML Fairness in ESEC/FSE'20. |
| July 2020: | Attending ICSE 2020 conference. |
| May 2020: | Organizing Mid-West Big Data Summer School. |
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Contact
- sumon@iastate.edu
- (515) 708-6166
- Atanasoff Hall, 2434 Osborn Dr, Ames, IA 50011
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