Prof. Dr. Tegawendé F. BISSYANDE

Chief Scientist (Professor category) with SnT at University of Luxembourg
ERC Fellow - PI of NATURAL (Artificial Intelligence for Program Repair)
bissyande @Google Scholar @DBLP @Orbi.lu

Research interests:

Software Debugging (especially bug localization and program repair ),
Software Security (especially malware detection and analysis),
Code Search (both free-form and semantic code-to-code),
Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for software engineering,
and more broadly software engineering and cyber-security.

Open Positions: TruX is looking for motivated and excellent PhD candidates for applying to FNR research grants. Please send me your resume and transcript if you are interested.

Selected Recent Publications

EMNLP'24 CodeAgent: Autonomous Communicative Agents for Code Review
Xunzhu Tang, Kisub Kim, Yewei Song, Cedric Lothritz, Bei Li, Saad Ezzini, Haoye Tian, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé. Proceedings of the The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

ISSTA'24 CREF: an LLM-based conversational software repair framework for programming tutors
Boyang Yang, Haoye Tian, Weiguo Pian, Haoran Yu, Haitao Wang, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Shunfu Jin. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.

EMSE App review driven collaborative bug finding
Xunzhu Tang, Haoye Tian, Pingfan Kong, Saad Ezzini, Kui Liu, Xin Xia, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé. Springer Journal of Empirical Software Engineering.

TSE Fusing Code Searchers
Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu, Li Li, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Xiaoguang Mao. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

ICSE'24 Practical Program Repair via Preference-based Ensemble Strategy
Wenkang Zhong, Chuanyi Li, Kui Liu, Tongtong Xu, Jidong Ge, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Bin Luo, Vincent Ng. Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

ESEC/FSE'24 Natural language to code: How far are we?
Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu, Li Li, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Xiaoguang Mao. Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE).

TOSEM Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java
Wenkang Zhong, Chuanyi Li, Kui Liu, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Vincent Ng. To Appear in the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Service

2025: ICSE Area chair
2024: ICSE PC Member
2024: ISSTA PC Member
2021: ICSE PC Member
2020: ASE PC Member
2020: ICSME PC Member
2019: ASE PC Member
2019: ISSTA PC Member
2019: ICSME PC Member
2018: AFRICOMM Workshops Chair
2018: ICSME PC Member

2018: ASE Tool Track PC Member
2018: ISSTA Artefact Evaluation Committee Member
2017: ICPC PC Member
2016: AFRICOMM PC Chair
2016: AfriCHI PC Member
2015: COMPAS PC Member

Industry Partnership Experience

BGL BNP Paribas. (Since January 2019) Principal investigator of SnT-Industry project
Luxembourg Stock Exchange. (Since January 2018) Technical co-leader of SnT-Industry project
Paul Wurth. (January 2015 to 2018) co-technical co-leader of SnT-Industry project

Employment & Internships History

Singapore Management University (Singapore) (04-07/2012) Research Assistant / Visiting PhD with David Lo
LiP6 / Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) (06-09/2010) Research Assistant / Visiting PhD with Julia Lawall & Gilles Muller
University of California at Santa Barbara (USA). (06-09/2008) Engineering intern in ECE with Sanjit K. Mitra
Bordeaux Hospitals (France). (07-08/2007) Intern in the Information systems department

Education

PhD (March 2013) and MSc (September 2009) from University of Bordeaux, supervised by Prof. Laurent Réveillère in close collaboration with Dr. Julia Lawall
Telecom Software Engineer (June 2009) from ENSEIRB (now part of Institut National Polytechnique de Bordeaux, France)
Preparatory school Ibn Taymia (Marrakech, Morroco) for Entrance in french "Grandes Ecoles" - 2004-2006
Boarding school until High School Diploma (2004) in Catholic Seminaries of Burkina Faso - Baskouré (1996-2001) & Pabré (2001-2004)