Dave Williams
UCL Software Engineering PhD Candidate
Hi, I'm Dave and I'm a first-year PhD candidate at University College London (UCL). My research is focused primarily on Automated Program Repair (APR) using Large Language Models. I am working as a member of both the SOLAR and CREST research groups.
You can contact me at david.williams.22@ucl.ac.uk.
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Timeline
Supervised by Sergey Mechtaev & Prof. Federica Sarro
Managed by Prof. Federica Sarro
Worked on research involving Genetic Improvement (GI), Regression Test Selection (RTS), and Large Language Models (LLMs) for patch explainability.
Dissertation: "B-Assist: Using GitHub Suggested Changes to Integrate APR Fixes into the Code Review Process"
Supervised by Prof. Federica Sarro & Prof. Justyna Petke
*This dissertation was subsequently built-upon and published at ICSE 2024 as User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg
Dissertation: "Trustworth Post-Purchase Manufacturing Communication Platform using Blockchain"
Supervised by Prof. Liqun Chen & Prof. Ioana Boureanu (Carlson)
Publications
2024
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User-Centric
Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg
David Williams, James Callan, Serkan Kirbas, Sergey Mechtaev, Justyna Petke, Thomas Prideaux-Ghee, Federica Sarro
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024 - Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Track
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ACM ArXiv Award Download -
Speeding up Genetic Improvement with Regression Test Selection
Giovanni Guizzo, David Williams, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodologies (TOSEM)
ACM Download
Service
Teaching Assistant Work
- COMP0237 - Automated Software Engineering
News
- 19/04/2024 - User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
- 17/04/2024 - I gave my first talk presenting User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg at ICSE 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 14/03/2024 - Speeding up Genetic Improvement with Regression Test Selection has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).
- 20/12/2023 - User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg has been accepted for publication in ICSE SEIP'24