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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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) -
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
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