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<li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
<li><a href="#people">People</a></li>
<li><a href="#awards">Awards</a></li>
<li><a href="#research">Research</a></li>
<li><a href="#pubs">Pubs</a></li>
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ROARS 🦖 Lab @ GMU
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<li data-icon="🏠 "><a href="https://cs.gmu.edu">Computer Science</a>, <a href="https://www.gmu.edu">George Mason University</a></li>
<li data-icon="📆 ">Weekly Meeting: 2:00 PM--3:30 PM Thurs, ENGR #4201</li>
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<a href="https://code.roars.dev">🖥️ Code</a>,
<a href="https://wiki.roars.dev">📝 Wiki</a>,
<a href="https://photos.roars.dev">📷 Photos</a>,
<a href="#contact"> 📨 Contact</a></li>
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<p>Welcome to <strong>ROARS</strong> (Research on Automated Reasoning Systems) Lab at <a href="https://www.gmu.edu">George Mason University</a>.
<a href="#people">We</a> develop automated reasoning techniques to formalize, verify, and analyze software and AI systems. See <a href="#research">Research</a> for more information.</p>
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<h2>News</h2>
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<li><time datetime="2026-05">5/2026</time>: Created <a href="https://vietprofs.roars.dev"><strong>VietProfs</strong></a>, a comprehensive directory of Vietnamese professors worldwide.</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-05">5/2026</time>: Received the <strong>Outstanding Service Award</strong> from the CS department for service and contributions to the department</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-05">5/2026</time>: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICML'26</strong></a> research paper on (invariant) generation of randomized self-reductions for mathematical functions received <strong>ICML Spotlight</strong></li>
<li><time datetime="2026-05">5/2026</time>: <a href="#people"><strong>Hai</strong></a> received the <strong>Outstanding PhD Student Award</strong> from GMU CS and is interning at <strong>Amazon AWS</strong> in the summer</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-04">4/2026</time>: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>CVPR'26</strong></a> research paper on verifying AI-based computer vision systems received <strong>CVPR Highlight</strong> (👏 Hai)</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-04">4/2026</time>: Serving as an organizer and program (papers) chair of <a href="https://vnn-comp.github.io/">VNN-COMP'26</a>, the annual competition on verifying neural networks. Consider submitting your NNV tools and related papers</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-04">4/2026</time>: 🎓 <a href="#people"><strong>Didier</strong></a> defended his dissertation on complexity analysis (second PhD alumni of the group!). Plenty of pictures from the defense from the <a href="https://photos.roars.dev">lab photos</a>.</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-04">4/2026</time>: <strong>Amazon Research Award</strong> (2nd ARA Award) for Verifiable AI and ML-assisted Mathematical Reasoning</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-03">3/2026</time>: 📚 Ongoing work on an introductory <a href="https://github.com/dynaroars/nnv">textbook</a> for neural network verification</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-03">3/2026</time>: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>TSE'26</strong></a> research paper on specification repair and test generation</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-02">2/2026</time>: <a href="https://realgmucs.github.io/people">CS GMU People</a>: a webapp listing faculty and staff at CS GMU.</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-02">2/2026</time>: <a href="#people"><strong>Jahnvi</strong></a> joined as an MS researcher</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-01">1/2026</time>: <strong>BibTeX Parser</strong>: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev">https://roars.dev/bibtex/</a> is now live. This webapp displays publications from a BibTeX file.</li>
<li><time datetime="2026-01">1/2026</time>: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>FSE'26</strong></a> research paper on formalizing and verifying structural robustness properties of AI systems (👏 Hai)</li>
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<summary>More</summary>
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<li>12/2025: <a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-12/genprogs-decade-defining-developments-debugging">GMU College of Computing's article on TSE Most Influential Paper Award</a></li>
<li>12/2025: <strong>CSPicks</strong>: <a href="https://roars.dev/cspicks">https://roars.dev/cspicks/</a> is now live. This webapp explores CS Faculty and PhD programs.</li>
<li>11/2025: 🎉 Thanksgiving party!!!</li>
<li>11/2025: <a href="#people"><strong>Azan</strong></a> joined as a undergraduate researcher</li>
<li>11/2025: <a href="#people"><strong>Phu</strong></a> joined as a undergraduate researcher</li>
<li>9/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>SSBSE'25</strong></a> research paper (<strong>🏅 Best Paper Award</strong>) on LLM-guided Input Generation (👏 Didier)</li>
<li>9/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>Two</strong> <strong>NeurIPS'25</strong></a> research papers on compositional DNN verification (<strong>🏅 NeurIPS Spotlight</strong>) and certifying DNN verification (👏 Hai)</li>
<li>9/2025:🎁 Received an <strong>NVIDIA Academic Research Grant</strong></li>
<li>8/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ASE'25</strong></a> research paper on generating challenging benchmarks for DNN verification (👏 Linhan, first research paper as first author)</li>
<li>8/2025: <a href="https://code.roars.dev/neuralsat">NeuralSAT</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ep-hGGotgWQF6SA0JIpQ6nFqs2lXoyuLMM-bORzNvrQ"><strong>ranked 2nd</strong></a> overall in VNN-COMP'25 (👏 Hai). </li>
<li>7/2025: Elevated to <strong>ACM Senior Member</strong></li>
<li>4/2025: Serving as an organizer and program (papers) chair of VNN-COMP'25, the annual competition on verifying neural networks. Consider submitting your NNV tools and related papers.</li>
<li>4/2025: <strong>CSConfs</strong>: <a href="https://cspicks.roars.dev/csconfs.html">https://cspicks.roars.dev/csconfs.html</a> is now live. This webapp tracks upcoming CS conferences</li>
<li>4/2025: (Book) Demystifying PhD Admissions in Computer Science is now published and available through <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F41HP6Y2">Amazon Kindle</a> (the book pdf will always be free through <a href="https://code.roars.dev/phd-cs-us">GitHub</a>)</li>
<li>4/2025: <strong>Two</strong> <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ISSTA'25</strong></a> tool papers on LSP support for the COOL language (👏 Linhan, first paper) and VS Code support for invariant generation and symbolic execution (👏 Stefania, first paper)</li>
<li>4/2025: Elevated to <strong>IEEE Senior Member</strong>.</li>
<li>4/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>CAV'25</strong></a> paper on the NeuralSAT DNN verification tool (👏 Hai)</li>
<li>2/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>TSE</strong></a> paper (50th Anniversary Special Issue) on Evolution of APR</li>
<li>2/2025: 🏅 <strong>TSE 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award</strong> for GenProg work on automatic program repair (with Claire, Wes, and Steph). <a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-12/genprogs-decade-defining-developments-debugging">GMU News</a></li>
<li>1/2025: <a href="https://code.roars.dev/neuralsat">NeuralSAT</a> <strong>ranked 2nd</strong> overall in VNN-COMP'24 (our second participation, 👏 Hai). Press: <a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-05/george-masons-roars-lab-retains-its-ranking-leader-ai-safety-2024-international-neural">GMU</a><br>
<em>Note</em>: An initial parsing issue in the competition scripts undercounted NeuralSAT's results; the official
<a href="https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19985">updated report</a> corrects this and shows NeuralSAT in 2nd place (Table B.1).</li>
<li>1/2025: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE'25</strong></a> NIER paper on LLM-based autoformalization for LEAN (👏 Long, first paper)</li>
<li>11/2024: 🎉 Thanksgiving party!!!</li>
<li>8/2024: Appointed <strong>Director</strong> of the MS Software Engr program</li>
<li>8/2024: Promoted to <strong>Associate Professor</strong> with <strong>tenure</strong></li>
<li>6/2024: 🎁 Received an <strong>NSF Collaborative Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) Grant</strong></li>
<li>5/2024: 🏅 <strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award</strong> from GMU (👏 Stefania)</li>
<li>4/2024: <a href="#people"><strong>Nguyen</strong></a> and <a href="#people"><strong>Long</strong></a> joined as a PhD student</li>
<li>3/2024: <a href="#people"><strong>Stefania</strong></a> joined as a undergraduate researcher</li>
<li>2/2024: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>FSE'24</strong></a> research paper on new optimizations developed for the NeuralSAT DNN verification tool (👏 Hai, first research paper as first author)</li>
<li>1/2024: <a href="https://code.roars.dev/neuralsat">NeuralSAT</a> ranked 4th overall and received the <strong>New Participant Award</strong> at VNN-COMP'23 (our first participation). It also won the <code>tllverifybench</code> category (👏 Hai and Linhan)</li>
<li>1/2024: <a href="#people"><strong>Huong</strong></a> joined as a undergraduate researcher</li>
<li>11/2023: 🎉 Thanksgiving party!!!</li>
<li>8/2023: <a href="https://code.roars.dev/neuralsat">NeuralSAT</a> <strong>ranked 4th</strong> overall in the annual Verifying Neural Network competition <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/vnn2023">VNN-COMP'23</a> (our first participation, 👏 Hai and Linhan)</li>
<li>8/2023: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>FSE SRC</strong></a> (Student Research Competition) paper on dynamic complexity analysis (👏 Didier)</li>
<li>8/2023: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>FSE'23</strong></a> Industry paper on fault localization</li>
<li>7/2023: 🎁 Received an <strong>NSF Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) Grant</strong></li>
<li>7/2023: 📓 A handbook for <a href="https://roars.dev/phd-cs-us/demystify.pdf">demystifying the PhD admission process in Computer Science in the US</a></li>
<li>6/2023: SIGBED <a href="https://sigbed.org/2023/06/06/neural-sat/">blog</a> on NeuralSAT</li>
<li>6/2023: 🎓 Kimhao graduated and joined Jump Trading</li>
<li>5/2023: 🏅 <strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Senior Award</strong> from UNL CSE (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>3/2023: 🎁 Received an <strong>Amazon Research Award</strong>. Press: <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/program-updates/79-amazon-research-awards-recipients-announced">Amazon Science</a>, <a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2023-07/amazon-research-award-win-ai-safety-verification">GMU</a></li>
<li>1/2023: 🎁 Received the <strong>NSF CAREER Award</strong> to work on DNN verification. Press: <a href="https://www.gmu.edu/news/2023-02/boom-crash-mason-researcher-receives-half-million-nsf-grant-could-steer-ai-safely">GMU</a>, <a href="https://thanhnien.vn/tien-si-goc-viet-duoc-tai-tro-nghien-cuu-ai-185230304234603638.htm">Báo Thanh Niên (Vietnamese)</a></li>
<li>12/2022: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE SEIP</strong></a> paper on shift left static analysis (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>11/2022: 🎉 Thanksgiving party!!!</li>
<li>11/2022: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>SIGMOD'23</strong></a> research paper on using graph neural networks to analyze IoT interactive bugs</li>
<li>8/2022: 🎉 Start of the semester party!!!</li>
<li>8/2022: <a href="#people"><strong>Hai</strong></a> joined as a PhD student</li>
<li>7/2022: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ASE'22</strong></a> research paper on feed-back driven iterative Alloy repair (👏 Guolong)</li>
<li>6/2022: 🎓 Kimhao interned at Jump Trading</li>
<li>4/2022: 🎓 <a href="#people"><strong>Guolong</strong></a> defended his dissertation on Alloy analysis (first PhD alumni of the group!)</li>
<li>4/2022: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ISSTA'22</strong></a> research paper on template-based Alloy repair (👏 Guolong)</li>
<li>1/2022: <strong>Two</strong> <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE Tool</strong></a> papers on complex analysis (👏 Didier) and invariant generation (👏 KimHao and Hai)</li>
<li>1/2022: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE SEIP</strong></a> paper on analyzing CMake build scripts (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>1/2022: <a href="#people"><strong>Linhan</strong></a> joined as a PhD student</li>
<li>12/2021: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE NIER</strong></a> paper on Graph Neural Networks analysis</li>
<li>9/2021: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>OOPSLA'21</strong></a> research paper on capturing runtime complexity of recursive programs (👏 Didier and KimHao)</li>
<li>9/2021: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>TSE'21</strong></a> journal paper on symbolic states and dynamic invariant inference (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>8/2021: 🎁 Received a gift from <strong>Meta/Facebook</strong> to work on build systems and symbolic execution</li>
<li>8/2021: 🎁 Received an <strong>NSF Collaborative (Medium) Grant</strong> to dynamically analyze program liveness and safety properties</li>
<li>8/2021: 🎉 Farewell party!!!</li>
<li>7/2021: <strong>Three</strong> <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ASE Tool papers</strong></a> (👏 KimHao and Guolong)</li>
<li>6/2021: 🚀 Moving to <a href="https://www.gmu.edu"><strong>George Mason University</strong></a> (Fall'21)</li>
<li>5/2021: 🏅 <strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant Award</strong> from UNL CSE (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>5/2021: KimHao interned at Meta/Facebook (2nd time)</li>
<li>5/2021: 🎓 <a href="#people"><strong>Alexey</strong></a> defended his Master's thesis</li>
<li>4/2021: 🏅 KimHao received the <strong>Top Presentation Award</strong> on analyzing configurable systems at the Nebraska Student Research Days</li>
<li>12/2020: <strong>Three</strong> research papers accepted at <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>ICSE'21</strong></a> on inferring interactions in
configurable software and debugging and repairing Alloy specifications (👏 KimHao and Guolong)
</li>
<li>12/2020: 🎁 Received a <strong>Faculty Seed Grant Award</strong> from UNL</li>
<li>10/2020: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>OOPSLA'20</strong></a> research paper on using dynamically inferred nonlinear invariants to prove program termination and non-termination</li>
<li>9/2020: 🎁 <strong>UCare Award</strong> from UNL and the <strong>Garmin Scholarship Award</strong> (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>8/2020: <strong>FSE SEAD</strong> workshop paper on using recurrence relations to analyze program complexity (👏 Alexey and Didier)</li>
<li>7/2020: <strong>ICSME</strong> NIER paper on using symbolic execution to analyze the Linux build system (👏 KimHao)</li>
<li>7/2020: <strong>ICSME</strong> Doctoral Symposium paper on Alloy fault
localization and repair (👏 Guolong)</li>
<li>6/2020: KimHao interned at Meta/Facebook</li>
<li>3/2020: 🎁 Received the <strong>NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award</strong> on analyzing the Linux build system.
Press: <a href="https://computing.unl.edu/nguyen-earns-nsf-crii-award/">UNL</a></li>
<li>3/2020: <a href="#people"><strong>KimHao</strong></a> (freshman) joined as an undergraduate researcher</li>
<li>1/2020: <a href="#people"><strong>Alexey</strong></a> joined as an M.S. student</li>
<li>9/2019: <strong>OOPSLA'19</strong> research paper on using algebraic specifications to aid program synthesis</li>
<li>9/2019: <a href="#people"><strong>Didier</strong></a> joined as a PhD student</li>
<li>6/2019: 🏅🏅 Received an <strong>ACM SIGSOFT 10-year Most Influential Paper Award</strong> at ICSE
(Software Engr) on program repair. Also an <strong>ACM SIGEVO 10-year Impact Award</strong>
at GECCO (Evolutionary Computing) on using genetic programming to fix
bugs</li>
<li>3/2019: <a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev"><strong>PLDI'19</strong></a> research paper on dynamic invariant inference in separation logic (👏 Guolong)</li>
<li>1/2019: 🎁 Received a 3-year grant from the <strong>Army Research Office</strong> to work on program errors prediction and avoidance</li>
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<h2>People</h2>
<p><a href="https://photos.roars.dev">Lab activities/photos</a></p>
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<li><a href="https://tvn.roars.dev">ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen</a> (PI, faculty)</li>
<li><a href="https://longdct.github.io">Long Doan</a> (PhD student)</li>
<li><a href="https://hocdot.github.io/">Hai Duong</a> (PhD student)</li>
<li>Nguyen Ho (PhD student)</li>
<li><a href="https://lli-debu.github.io/">Linhan Li</a> (PhD student)</li>
<li>Azan Rasul (NSF REU undergraduate)</li>
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<summary>Alumni</summary>
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<li>Jahnvi (MS, <strong>graduated 2026</strong>)</li>
<li><a href="https://ishimwed.github.io">Didier Ishimwe</a> (PhD, <strong>graduated 2026</strong>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-piciorea/">Stefania Piciorea</a> (B.S., <strong>graduated 2025</strong>)</li>
<li><a href="https://ndkimhao.github.io/">KimHao Nguyen</a> (B.S., <strong>graduated 2023</strong>, Jump Trading)</li>
<li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FqXt_DQAAAAJ">Guolong Zheng</a> (PhD, <strong>graduated 2022</strong>, Minjiang University)</li>
<li>Alexey Malyshev (M.S., <strong>graduated 2021</strong>, Oracle)</li>
</ul>
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<summary>Joining us</summary>
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<ul>
<li>Read about <a href="https://roars.dev/phd-cs-us/advising.pdf">our lab culture</a> and <a href="https://realgmucs.github.io/stats">GMU CS dept</a>. Also read <strong>"Should you contact a US professor? How to do so correctly?"</strong> from the <a href="https://code.roars.dev/phd-cs-us/">CS PhD Admission Demystify Handbook</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Contribute</strong> to our <a href="https://code.roars.dev/">open-source projects</a>. You can create Github issues and pull requests for the project. This shows you're serious about working with us and allows us to evaluate your skills.</li>
<li><strong>Note</strong>: Unless there is a strong match and interest, we <strong>will not</strong> be able to respond to your emails, especially if they are generic.</li>
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<h2>Awards</h2>
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<li><strong>Outstanding Service Award</strong> 2026 (GMU CS)</li>
<li><strong>Research Spotlight</strong> at <strong>ICML'26</strong></li>
<li><strong>Outstanding CS PhD Student Award</strong> 2026 (Hai@GMU)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/build-on-trainium-responsible-ai-call-for-proposals-fall-2025"><strong>Amazon Research Award</strong> (Trainium Reliable AI)</a> 2026</li>
<li><strong>Research Highlight</strong> at <strong>CVPR'26</strong></li>
<li><strong>Best Paper Award</strong> at <strong>SSBSE'25</strong></li>
<li><strong>Research Spotlight</strong> at <strong>NeurIPS'25</strong></li>
<li>NeuralSAT ranked <strong>2nd</strong> overall in <strong>VNN-COMP'25</strong></li>
<li><strong>Outstanding Teaching Assistants Award</strong> 2025 (Linhan@GMU)</li>
<li><strong>IEEE TSE Most Influential Paper Award</strong> (50th Anniversary Retrospective) 2025</li>
<li>NeuralSAT ranked <strong>2nd</strong> overall in <strong>VNN-COMP'24</strong></li>
<li><strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award</strong> 2024 (Stefania@GMU)</li>
<li>NeuralSAT received the <strong>New Participant Award</strong> at VNN-COMP'23</li>
<li><strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Senior Award</strong> 2023 (KimHao@UNL)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/program-updates/79-amazon-research-awards-recipients-announced"><strong>Amazon Research Award</strong> (Automated Reasoning)</a> 2023</li>
<li><strong>NSF CAREER Award</strong> 2023</li>
<li><strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award</strong> 2021 (KimHao@UNL)</li>
<li>NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (<strong>CRII</strong>) Award 2020</li>
<li><a href="https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=SIGEVO+Impact+Award">ACM SIGEVO <strong>10-year Impact Paper Award</strong></a> 2019</li>
<li><a href="https://www.sigsoft.org/awards/icseMIPAward.html">ACM SIGSOFT / IEEE TCSE ICSE <strong>10-year Most Influential Paper Award</strong></a> 2019</li>
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<summary>Press Release</summary>
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<li><a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-12/genprogs-decade-defining-developments-debugging">TSE Test of Time award</a>: GenProg's decade-defining developments in debugging</li>
<li><a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-05/george-masons-roars-lab-retains-its-ranking-leader-ai-safety-2024-international-neural-network-verification-competition">George Mason's ROARS lab retains its ranking as a leader in AI safety at the 2024 International Neural Network Verification Competition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2023-07/amazon-research-award-win-ai-safety-verification">Amazon Research Award Win for AI Safety Verification</a>: GMU press release on the ARA</li>
<li><a href="https://www.gmu.edu/news/2023-02/boom-crash-mason-researcher-receives-half-million-nsf-grant-could-steer-ai-safely">Boom crash: Mason researcher receives half million NSF grant that could steer AI safely</a>: GMU press release on CAREER award</li>
<li><a href="https://thanhnien.vn/tien-si-goc-viet-duoc-tai-tro-nghien-cuu-ai-185230304234603638.htm">Tiến sĩ gốc Việt được tài trợ nghiên cứu AI</a>: from Thanh Nien, a Vietnamese news outlet</li>
<li><a href="https://computing.unl.edu/nguyen-earns-nsf-crii-award/">CRII Award</a>: UNL press release on NSF CRII award</li>
<li><a href="https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/cse/9518/56343">UNL press release</a> on ACM SIGSOFT 10-year Most Influential Paper Award at ICSE</li>
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<h2>Research</h2>
<p>Software Engineering; Formal Methods; Automated Reasoning; Program Analysis; Program Verification; AI Safety and Robustness, Dynamic and Static Analysis; SMT/SAT Solving</p>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Safe and Robust AI</strong>: we are exploring scalable and precise techniques
to formally analyze and verify deep neural networks (DNNs).
<ul>
<li>Examples: <a href="./pubs/duong2025compositional.pdf">Verification for Neural Networks</a> (<strong>NeurIPS Research Spotlight</strong>); <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.10266.pdf">DPLL(T)-based DNN Verification</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Program Analysis and Invariants Discovery</strong>: we have developed dynamic, static, and
symbolic techniques to analyze program semantics and to discover and prove interesting properties.
<ul>
<li>Examples: discovering <a href="./pubs/nguyen2012using.pdf">nonlinear
polynomial invariants</a> using dynamic analysis (<strong>ICSE Distinguished Paper
Award</strong>); discovering heap-based memory properties using
<a href="./pubs/le2019sling.pdf">separation logic</a>; generating
program interactions in highly-configurable software using
<a href="./pubs/nguyen2021gentree.pdf">decision trees</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<section id="pubs">
<h2>Publications</h2>
<h3><a href="https://scholars.roars.dev">Google Scholars for Roars</a></h3>
<h3><a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev/">Full List of Papers</a></h3>
<h3 id="miscs">Book and Misc. Writing</h3>
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<li>📚 <a href="https://github.com/dynaroars/nnv">Neural Network Verification Textbook</a>: ongoing work on an introductory textbook for neural network verification</li>
<li>📚 <a href="https://code.roars.dev/phd-cs-us/">PhD Demystify</a>: a book to help students understand and navigate the PhD admission process in Computer Science in the US</li>
<li>📍 <a href="https://roars.dev/phd-cs-us/advising.pdf">Roars Lab Culture and Advising Guide</a></li>
<li>📍 <a href="https://realgmucs.github.io/stats">realgmucs.github.io/stats</a>: Useful Stats about GMU CS dept</li>
<li>📍 <a href="https://roars.dev/phd-cs-us/viet-cs-profs-us">https://roars.dev/phd-cs-us/viet-cs-profs-us</a>: Vietnamese professors in CS</li>
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<h2><a href="https://code.roars.dev">Software</a></h2>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://code.roars.dev/neuralsat">NeuralSAT</a>: A high-performance <strong>neural network verification</strong> tool.</li>
<li><a href="https://dig.roars.dev">DIG</a>: A <strong>numerical invariant generation tool</strong>, focusing on nonlinear polynomials.</li>
<li><a href="https://cspicks.roars.dev">CSPicks</a>: a webapp to explore CS faculty and PhD programs. Also track <a href="https://cspicks.roars.dev/csconfs.html">upcoming CS conferences</a> and has a comprehensive database of <a href="https://cspicks.roars.dev/grants.html">funding and awards</a> for faculty and students</li>
<li><a href="https://vietprofs.roars.dev/?loc=US"><strong>VietProfs</strong></a>: a <strong>comprehensive</strong> collection of Vietnamese professors worldwide</li>
<li><a href="https://bibtex.roars.dev">BibTex Parser</a>: a webapp to display publications from a BibTeX file.</li>
<li><a href="https://realgmucs.github.io/people">CS GMU People</a>: a webapp for CS GMU directory (faculty and staff).</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/sosy-lab/benchmarking/sv-benchmarks/-/tree/main/c/nla-digbench">NLA-Digbench</a>: this
SV-COMP benchmark contains various programs with nonlinear invariants and properties.</li>
<li>Solving NP-Complete problems
<ul>
<li><a href="https://code.roars.dev/coloring/">AntColor</a>: an ant-based heuristics for the <strong>graph coloring</strong> problem and its generalizations</li>
<li><a href="https://code.roars.dev/maxclique/">AMC</a>: a fast, parallel ant-based algorithm for the <strong>maximum clique</strong> problem</li>
<li><a href="https://code.roars.dev/npbench">NP Benchmarks</a>: a comprehensive collection of benchmarks (in DIMACS format) for various NP-Complete problems including graph coloring, maximum clique, vertex cover, and spanning tree</li>
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