I’m a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UT Austin, advised by August Shi. I obtained a B.S. (2019) and a M.S. (2021) in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. My research interests include software testing and program analysis.

Publications

Profiling-Guided Bayesian Optimization of JVM Configurations
Abdelrahman Baz, Wing Lam, August Shi
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
(ISSTA 2026), pages to appear, Oakland, USA, October 2026

Reducing Test Runtime by Transforming Test Fixtures
Chengpeng Li, Abdelrahman Baz, August Shi
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
(ASE 2024), pages 1757-1769, Sacramento, USA, October 2024
(This paper won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.)

Prioritizing Tests for Improved Runtime
Abdelrahman Baz, Minchao Huang, August Shi
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results
(ASE NIER 2024), pages 2273-2278, Sacramento, USA, October 2024

Impact of JVM Configurations on Test Runtime
Abdelrahman Baz, Milos Gligoric, August Shi
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
(ICSME 2024), pages 249-261, Flagstaff, USA, October 2024

Quantizing Large-Language Models for Predicting Flaky Tests
Shanto Rahman, Abdelrahman Baz, Sasa Misailovic, August Shi
IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
(ICST 2024), pages 93-104, Toronto, Canada, May 2024