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

• Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Programming Languages for Code LLMs (August 2023)
• Received an NSF Award for research on Code LLMs for programming in the sciences, with Carolyn Jane Anderson, Molly Q Feldman, and Erin G. Teich (August 2023)
• Received a JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Award, with (August 2023)
• Continuing WebAssembly with Effect Handlers will appear at OOPSLA 2023 (July 2023)
• StudentEval a benchmark of student-written prompts for Large Language Models of Code (June 2023)
• StarCoder: An Open 15B Parameter Large Language Model of Code is now available (May 2023)
• Received a MathWorks Microgrant (May 2023)
• MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Extensible Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation will appear in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (April 2023)
• A Large Scale Analysis of Semantic Versioning in NPM will appear at MSR 2023 (March 2023)
• SantaCoder will appear at the DL4C workshop (March 2023)
• Do Machine Learning Models Produce TypeScript Types that Type Check? will appear at ECOOP 2023 (February 2023)
• Flexible and Optimal Dependency Management via Max-SMT will appear at ICSE 2023 (December 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)
• Anders Freeman (undergrad)
• Claire Schlesinger (undergrad)
• Francesca Lucchetti (PhD)
• 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)

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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