June 03, 2024

Hridesh Rajan, Kingland professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, has been named the new dean of Tulane University’s...

April 02, 2024

The Department of Computer Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University seeks outstanding applicants for a postdoctoral position in...

April 13, 2022

Sumon Biswas has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Understanding and Reasoning Fairness in Machine Learning Pipelines”. His research unravels several software engineering techniques towards...

December 10, 2021

In this paper, we propose an approach to decompose a convolutional neural network (CNN) model used for image classification into modules, in which each module...

December 03, 2021

This work attempts to inform the art and practice of designing data science (DS) pipeline. Our investigation suggest that DS pipeline is a well used...

November 04, 2021

Sumon Biswas has successfully defended his MS thesis entitled “Understanding Unfairness and its Mitigation in Open-Source Machine Learning Models”. The abstract of the thesis is...

May 20, 2021

This work proposed a causal method to measure fairness of components in machine learning pipeline. Specifically, it evaluates many preprocessing stages in the pipeline and...

August 20, 2020

PhD student Rangeet Pan and Hridesh Rajan have received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium...

July 30, 2020

Graduate student Rangeet Pan earned second place at the ACM Student Research Competition at 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2020 for his work...

July 29, 2020

The EAPLS Best Paper Award 2020 is awarded to the paper “An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams”, by Raffi...

July 15, 2020

Md Johirul Islam has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Towards Understanding the Challenges Faced by Machine Learning Software Developers and Enabling Automated Solutions”. The...

May 19, 2020

This work presents takes the first step toward decomposing a monolithic deep neural network (DNN) into modules so that components of the deep neural network...

May 19, 2020

This work presents a comprehensive study of machine learning models to understand whether they exhibit bias. The paper’s abstract: ``Machine learning models are increasingly being...

March 30, 2020

As researchers and public-health experts join forces to battle COVID-19, computer scientists from Iowa State University have developed a data science infrastructure that will drastically...

December 08, 2019

This work proposes bespoke control flow analysis (bcfa), a novel source code analysis technique for performing large scale source code analysis over the control flow...

December 08, 2019

This work presents a comprehensive study of bug repair patterns for five DNN libraries The paper’s abstract: ``Significant interest in applying Deep Neural Network (DNN)...

December 06, 2019

Samantha-Syed Khairunnesa has successfully passed the PhD preliminary exam. The proposal abstract: ``Uncertainty is an integral part of ML programs, and, it is to be...

September 30, 2019

Md Johirul Islam has successfully defended his Masters of Science thesis. The thesis abstract: ``Big data-driven transportation engineering has the potential to improve the utilization...

September 25, 2019

Hamid Bagheri has successfully passed the PhD preliminary exam. The proposal abstract: ``Every day, many scientists around the world use NCBI’s non-redundant (NR) database to...

September 25, 2019

Hamid Bagheri has successfully defended his Masters of Science degree. The thesis abstract: ``Creating a scalable computational infrastructure to analyze the wealth of information contained...

May 25, 2019

Sumon Biswas will describe our brand new dataset at the MSR 2019 Conference. This work describes a new dataset that we have created to study...

May 20, 2019

Building on the inaugural 2016, 2017, and 2018 editions, the 2019 edition has started. This edition will be held from May 20-23, 2019 in Ames,...

December 17, 2018

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board had selected Prof. Rajan for the 2018-19 U.S. Scholar Award. This award led to an international workshop on...

March 07, 2018

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Prof. Rajan for the 2018-19 U.S. Scholar Award. According to the award letter "The Fulbright Program,...

February 19, 2018

Early registration is now open for the 2018 Midwest Big Data Summer School to be held from May 14-17, 2018 in Ames, Iowa on Iowa...

December 15, 2017

Our lab has had two papers selected to appear at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering to be held at Gothenberg, Sweden from May...

November 17, 2017

Ganesha Upadhyaya, a graduate student in the Dept. of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Software Design successfully defended his PhD thesis...

November 08, 2017

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Hridesh Rajan as one of 43 distinguished member for 2017. More details can be found here....

July 10, 2017

The 2017 Midwest Big Data Summer School held from July 10-14, 2017 in Ames, Iowa on Iowa State University campus was another successful edition. Over...

June 29, 2017

Dr. Zhen Yu has joined the Laboratory for Software Design as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Yu who prefers to go by Zhen obtained his Ph.D....

May 12, 2017

Early registration is now open for the 2017 Midwest Big Data Summer School to be held from July 10-14, 2017 in Ames, Iowa on Iowa...

May 02, 2017

Prof. Hridesh Rajan, professor in the Department of Computer Science, was named Kingland Professor of Data Analytics. Rajan is the director of the Laboratory for...

April 14, 2017

Nitin Tiwari, a graduate student in the computer science and a member of the Laboratory for Software Design successfully defended his Masters thesis today. His...

March 14, 2017

A paper on the Candoia Platform and Ecosystem has been accepted at the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), a conference co-located...

February 10, 2017

The Laboratory for Software Design in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University is seeking a graduate student to work on the Panini...

February 05, 2017

The Laboratory for Software Design in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on the Boa...

Jackson Maddox graduates with a Bachelors degree with Honors

December 17, 2016

Dr. Yuheng Long presents First-class Effects at SPLASH/OOPSLA 2016

November 04, 2016

Dr. Hridesh Rajan Elected to Midwest Big Data Hub Steering Committee

September 24, 2016

Dr. Mehdi Bagherzadeh graduates with a Ph.D. degree

September 07, 2016

Dr. Hridesh Rajan to Lead an ISU Presidential Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research (PIIR) in Data Driven Science (DDS) Project

September 07, 2016

Iowa State University Hosts Data-Driven Research Summer School

July 20, 2016

ISU Researchers Leverage Big Data to Improve Software Quality

January 22, 2016