Thibaud Lutellier, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

software engineering artificial intelligence automatic program repair data science bug detection AI for software engineering quantum computing

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About

Degrees

• PhD, University of Waterloo
• MASc, University of Waterloo
• Ingénieur Diplômé de Télécom Saint-Etienne, Université Jean Monnet, FRA

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Research

My research interests include software engineering, automatic program repair, AI for software engineering, Fairness and AI testing, defect prediction and software engineering.

I'm always looking for motivated undergrad students to work with me as research assistant during the summer!

I'm currently working with 6 amazing students:

• Lukas Ottenhof (MSc)
• Brett Siemens (URA)
• Timi Aina (URA)
• Harsh Darji (URA)
• Alyssa Menezes (URA) 
• Katie Stobbe (RA)

I've been lucky to work with the following students:

• MingLiang Wang: worked on Algorithms in UAVs, Directed Study, Winter 2025
• Anthony Hani: worked on Algorithms in UAVs, Directed Study, Winter 2025
• Jackie Yang: worked on Algorithms in UAVs, Directed Study, Winter 2025
• Zara Ezeasor: worked on MMIWG representation in Canadian Media, 2nd in the Augustana 3-Minutes Thesis competition, NSERC Black student researcher award, Summer 2024;
• Xiaofei Yu: worked on A study of bugs in Data Science Systems, University of Alberta Research Experience, Summer 2024;
• Nathan Yan: worked on Toxicity in Open-Source Projects, Summer 2024;
• Daniel Kirivita: worked on Computer Security and Vulnerabilities, Directed Study, Winter 2024;
• Harsh Darji: worked on Mining and Analysis Kaggle Notebooks, Fall 2023 and Winter 2024;
• Shadi Khalil: worked on Large Language Models and Transformers, Directed Study, Fall 2023;
• Wenyuan Jiang: worked on Exploring Complexity, Coding behaviors, and Bugs in Jupyter Notebooks, China Scholarship Council URI Program, Summer 2023;
• Priscilla Adebanji: worked on Using AI for Automating Bird Observation, Winner of the Augustana 3-Minutes Thesis competition, ScotiaBank URI Stipend to support BIPOC students at the forefront of STEM research, Summer 2023;
• Israel Oni: worked on Sentiment Analysis with AI of GitHub Issues, NSERC Black student researcher award, Summer 2023;
• Willis Kneeland: worked on the Classification of Git Commits, Mazankowski Award, Summer 2023;
• Diany Pressato: worked on Exploring Complexity, Coding behaviors, and Bugs in Jupyter Notebooks.

AUCSC 112 - Data Structures and Algorithms

An introduction to object-oriented design and programming in Java; algorithm analysis; data structures and container classes including arrays, lists, arraylists, stacks, queues, user-defined structures and an introduction to trees, along with associated algorithms such as insertion, removal, sorting and retrieval; introduction to recursion. Prerequisite: AUCSC 111, AUCSC 113 (2023) or AUSCI 135. Corequisites: AUMAT 116 and 120. Note: Credit may be obtained for only one of AUCSC 112 and AUCSC 211, and for only one of AUCSC 112 and AUSCI 235.

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AUCSC 220 - Software Engineering I

Software engineering paradigms, requirements specification, iterative software development, object-oriented design patterns, visual modelling with UML, software architecture; testing, verification and maintenance; software development environments and software engineering tools; societal implications such as the cost of failure and professional responsibilities. Prerequisite: AUCSC 112, or AUCSC 211 and AUSCI 235.

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Browse more courses taught by Thibaud Lutellier

Yi Wu, Nan Jiang, Hung Viet Pham, Thibaud Lutellier, Jordan Davis, Lin Tan, Petr Babkin, and Sameena Shah

ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). 2023 July;

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Nan Jiang, Thibaud Lutellier, Yiling Lou, Lin Tan, Dan Goldwasser, and Xiangyu Zhang

IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2023 May;

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Nan Jiang, Kevin Liu, Thibaud Lutellier, and Lin Tan

IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2023 May;

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Jiannan Wang, Thibaud Lutellier, Shangshu Qian, Hung Viet Pham, Lin Tan

IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2022 January;

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Shangshu Qian, Hung Viet Pham, Thibaud Lutellier, Zeou Hu, Jungwon Kim, Lin Tan, Yaoliang Yu, Jiahao Chen, and Sameena Shah

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2021 January; 34

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Nan Jiang, Thibaud Lutellier, Lin Tan

IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2021 January;

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Hung Viet Pham, Shangshu Qian, Jiannan Wang, Thibaud Lutellier, Jonathan Rosenthal, Lin Tan, Yaoliang Yu, Nachiappan Nagappan

35th IEEE/ACM international conference on automated software engineering (ASE). 2021 January;

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Thibaud Lutellier, Hung Viet Pham, Lawrence Pang, Yitong Li, Moshi Wei, Lin Tan

29th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on software testing and analysis (ISSTA). 2020 January;

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Hung Viet Pham, Thibaud Lutellier, Weizhen Qi, Lin Tan

IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2019 January;

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Tomasz Kuchta, Thibaud Lutellier, Edmund Wong, Lin Tan, Cristian Cadar

Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). 2018 January; 23 (6):3187-3220

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Thibaud Lutellier, Devin Chollak, Joshua Garcia, Lin Tan, Derek Rayside, Nenad Medvidović, Robert Kroeger

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2017 January; 44 (2):159-181

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Thibaud Lutellier, Devin Chollak, Joshua Garcia, Lin Tan, Derek Rayside, Nenad Medvidovic, Robert Kroeger

IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE SEIP track). 2015 January; 2

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Hossain Shahriar, Komminist Weldemariam, Mohammad Zulkernine, Thibaud Lutellier

Computers & Security. 2014 January; 47

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Hossain Shahriar, Komminist Weldemariam, Thibaud Lutellier, Mohammad Zulkernine

IEEE 7th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability. 2013 January;

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