Arjun Guha

About

Using the tools and techniques of programming languages, my research addresses security and reliability problems in web programming, systems, and robotics.

Recent News

• SantaCoder: a 1.1B-parameter LLM of code is now available (December 2022)
• Flexible and Optimal Dependency Management via Max-SMT will appear at ICSE 2023 (December 2022)
• Preprint on Evaluating Large Language Models of Code on Multiple Programming Languages (August 2022).
• James presents On the Use of Mutation Analysis For Evaluating Student Test Suite Quality at ISSTA 2022 (July 2022).

Research Group

I am a member of the Programming Research Laboratory at Northeastern. I work with a great group of students:

• Federico Cassano (undergrad)
• Sydney Nguyen (undergrad)
• John Gouwar (PhD)
• James Perretta (PhD, co-advised with Jonathan Bell)
• Luna Phipps-Costin (PhD)
• Donald Pinckney (PhD)
• Ming-Ho Yee (PhD)
• Yangtian Zi (PhD)

Prospective Students

I am always looking for students (both graduate and undergraduate) who are interested in programming languages research. I encourage you to read some of my papers and see what I like to teach. If you find any of this exciting, do get in touch.

Alumni

• Abhinav Jangda (PhD → Microsoft Research)
• Samuel Baxter (MS)
• Rian Shambaugh (MS)
• Emily Herbert (MS)
• Sam Lee (undergrad)
• Christopher Rybicki (undergrad → MS student at Cornell Tech)
• Rachit Nigam (undergrad → PhD student at Cornell)
• Nicole Andrews (Mount Holyoke College, undergrad)
• Jenna Hammond (Mount Holyoke College, undergrad, CRA honorable mention)
• Harsh Poddar (undergrad → Facebook)
• Aaron Weiss (undergrad, NSF Fellow → PhD student at Northeastern)
• Jane Tangen (undergrad → MITRE)
• Akshay Gadre (undergrad → PhD student at Carnegie Mellon)
• Nimish Gupta (MS → Amazon)

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