Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Oregon State University
Room 3043, Kelley Engineering Center
2500 NW Monroe Ave,
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501
Email: motwanim[at]oregonstate.edu
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News:
  • Paper accepted in ICSE'24 (Technical track).
  • Panelist in the BoF session on Software Testing for Scientific Computing in HPC at Supercomputing Conference (SC'23).
  • PC member at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'24) (Research track)
  • Panelist in the 4th International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR'23).
  • Paper accepted in ICSE'23 (Technical track, Artifact Evaluation track).
  • Paper accepted in ICSE'23 (SEIP track).
  • Accepted Postdoctoral Fellow position at Georgia Tech and Assistant Professor tenure-track (courtesy appointment) at Oregon State University.
  • Defended my Dissertation.
  • PC member at the 14th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'22) (Challenge track)
  • Paper accepted in ICSE'21 (Doctoral Symposium track).
  • PC member at the 13th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'21) (Challenge track)
  • Paper accepted in TSE (2020).
  • Paper accepted in TSE (2019).
  • Paper accepted in ICSE'19 (Technical track, Artifact Evaluation track).
  • US Patent (US10146762B2) granted, Dec 2018.
  • [Paper] accepted in ICSE'18 (Journal-First track).
  • Paper accepted in EMSE (2018).
  • US Patent (US9972016B2) granted, May 2018.
  • Joined MS/PhD program at UMass Amherst.
  • Paper accepted in FSE'15 (Industry track).
  • Paper accepted in ASE'13 (New Ideas track).
  • Paper accepted in PLEASE'13 workshop.
I am currently serving as an Assistant Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Oregon State University since the fall of 2023.

Previously, I held a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the College of Computing - School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, where I collaborated with Dr. Alex Orso and Dr. Vivek Sarkar on automated testing and program repair for high-performance computing applications.

My academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, mentored by Dr. Yuriy Brun, where my research aimed to enhance automatic program repair techniques for practical use by software practitioners.

Before my doctoral studies, I conducted research in requirements engineering at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) in Pune, India, working with Dr. Smita Ghaisas.

My research involves analyzing large software repositories to learn interesting phenomena and use that knowledge to design novel automation techniques, such as requirements elicitation, testing, and program repair.

I'm actively seeking motivated Ph.D. students who share my passion for advancing software engineering. If you're interested in working with me, please don't hesitate to reach out via email.