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  Hridesh Rajan

  Professor

  Iowa State University

  He specializes in data science, programming languages and software engineering. He is credited with giving the definitive treatment for how to modularly reason about crosscutting concerns, and for the design and implementation of the Boa infrastructure for large-scale analysis of open source software and its evolution.

Co-Authored Publications

•  NEW ICSE: An LLM-Based Agent-Oriented Approach for Automated Code Design Issue Localization Fraol Batole, David OBrien, Tien N. Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. January 1, 2025.
  Acceptance rate: 140/642 (21.81%)
•  NEW ICSE: Data-Driven Evidence-Based Syntactic Sugar Design David OBrien, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan. April 17, 2024.
  Acceptance rate: 234/1049 (22.31%)
• WASPI: Towards Combining Usage Mining and Implementation Analysis to Infer API Preconditions Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Robert Dyer. November 9, 2018.
• ASE: Program Analysis on Thousands of Projects Ganesha Upadhyaya, Hridesh Rajan, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen. October 31, 2017.
• TOMC: Modular reasoning in the presence of event subtyping Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Robert Dyer, Rex D. Fernando, José Sánchez, Hridesh Rajan. September 1, 2016.
• TOSEM: Boa: Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repository and Source-Code Mining Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. December 1, 2015.
• SPLASH: Consensus-Based Mining of API Preconditions in Big Code Hoan Anh Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan. October 30, 2015.
• SPLASH: Demonstrating Programming Language Feature Mining Using Boa Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen. October 30, 2015.
• SPLASH: Mining Programming Language Usage with Boa Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen. October 29, 2015.
• SPLASH: Mining Billions of AST Nodes to Study Actual and Potential Usage of Java Language Features Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen. October 28, 2015.
• Boa: an Enabling Language and Infrastructure for Ultra-large Scale MSR Studies Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. September 15, 2015. The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data.
• ICSE NIER: Inferring Behavioral Specifications from Large-scale Repositories by Leveraging Collective Intelligence Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer. May 21, 2015.
• ICSE: Inferring Behavioral Specifications from Large-scale Repositories by Leveraging Collective Intelligence Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer. May 20, 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 25/135 (18.52%)
• MODULARITY: Modular Reasoning in the Presence of Event Subtyping  Best Paper Award Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Robert Dyer, Rex D. Fernando, José Sánchez, Hridesh Rajan. March 18, 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 12/25 (48.00%)
• FSE: Mining Preconditions of APIs in Large-Scale Code Corpus Hoan Anh Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan. November 18, 2014.
  Acceptance rate: 61/273 (22.34%)
• ICSE: Mining Billions of AST Nodes to Study Actual and Potential Usage of Java Language Features Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen. June 3, 2014.
  Acceptance rate: 99/495 (20.00%)
• ICSE: Efficiently Mining Source Code with Boa Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen. June 2, 2014.
• SPLASH: Mining Source Code Repositories with Boa Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. October 31, 2013.
• SPLASH: Mining Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repositories with Boa Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. October 30, 2013.
• GPCE: Declarative Visitors to Ease Fine-grained Source Code Mining with Full History on Billions of AST Nodes Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. October 27, 2013.
  Acceptance rate: 20/57 (35.09%)
• ICSE: Boa: A Language and Infrastructure for Analyzing Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repositories Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. May 23, 2013.
  Acceptance rate: 85/461 (18.43%)
• TAOSD: Language Features for Software Evolution and Aspect-Oriented Interfaces: An Exploratory Study Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Yuanfang Cai. April 1, 2013.
• SPLASH: Analyzing Ultra-Large-Scale Code Corpus with Boa Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. October 22, 2012.
• SPLASH: Boa: Analyzing Ultra-Large-Scale Code Corpus Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. October 22, 2012.
• AOSD: An Exploratory Study of the Design Impact of Language Features for Aspect-Oriented Interfaces Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Yuanfang Cai. March 30, 2012.
  Acceptance rate: 20/79 (25.31%)
• FOAL: Event Type Polymorphism Rex D. Fernando, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. March 26, 2012.
• ASE: Modularizing Crosscutting Concerns with Ptolemy Hridesh Rajan, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer. November 8, 2011.
• OOPSLA: Modularizing Crosscutting Concerns with Ptolemy Hridesh Rajan, Sean Mooney, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer, Rex D. Fernando, Mohammad Ali Darvish Darab, Bryan Welter. October 26, 2011.
• ECOOP: Modularizing Crosscutting Concerns with Ptolemy Hridesh Rajan, Sean Mooney, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer, Rex D. Fernando, Mohammad Ali Darvish Darab, Bryan Welter. July 27, 2011.
• AOSD: Modularizing Crosscutting Concerns with Ptolemy Hridesh Rajan, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer, Mehdi Bagherzadeh. March 22, 2011.
• SPLC: Feature Volatility Assessment Warren Baelen, Yuanfang Cai, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. September 13, 2010.
• TOSEM: Supporting Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Features Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. August 1, 2010.
• ESCOT: A preliminary study of quantified, typed events Robert Dyer, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Hridesh Rajan, Yuanfang Cai. March 16, 2010.
• Instance-level Quantified, Typed Events for Improved Separation of Integration Concerns Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Robert Dyer, Yuheng Long, Hridesh Rajan. December 23, 2008. Technical Report #08-15, Department of Computer Science.
• VMIL: A Decision Tree-Based Approach to Dynamic Pointcut Evaluation Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. October 19, 2008.
• AOSD: Weave Now or Weave Later: A Test Driven Development Perspective on Aspect-oriented Deployment Models Robert Dyer, Rakesh Setty, Hridesh Rajan. April 1, 2008.
• AOSD: Nu: A Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Intermediate Language Model and Virtual Machine for Flexible Runtime Adaptation Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. March 31, 2008.
  Acceptance rate: 17/79 (21.52%)
• Weave Now or Weave Later: A Test Driven Development Perspective on Aspect-oriented Deployment Models Rakesh Setty, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. February 26, 2008. Technical Report #08-02, Department of Computer Science.
• AOSD: Enhanced Intermediate Language Design to Preserve AO Modularity in Object Code Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. March 15, 2007.
• AOSD: Modular Compilation Strategies for AspectJ Constructs to Nu Intermediate Language Rakesh Setty, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. March 15, 2007.
• FSE: Nu: Preserving Design Modularity in Object Code Robert Dyer, Harish Narayanappa, Hridesh Rajan. November 7, 2006.
• Modular Compilation Strategies for Aspect-Oriented Constructs Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. September 22, 2006. Technical Report #06-30, Department of Computer Science.
• SPLAT: Preserving separation of concerns through compilation Hridesh Rajan, Robert Dyer, Youssef Hanna, Harish Narayanappa. March 21, 2006.