About me
I’m a software engineer focused on distributed build infrastructure and large-scale platform reliability. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin, where I was advised by August Shi. Before that, I obtained a B.S. (2019) and an M.S. (2021) in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. My research interests include software testing and program analysis.
Publications
ISSTA 2026
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), pages 162:1-162:23, Oakland, USA, October 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
@inproceedings{BazETAL2026ISSTA,
author = {Baz, Abdelrahman and Lam, Wing and Shi, August},
title = {Profiling-Guided {B}ayesian Optimization of {JVM} Configurations},
booktitle = {International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
year = {2026},
pages = {162:1--162:23},
doi = {10.1145/3832253},
}ASE 2024
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), pages 1757-1769, Sacramento, USA, October 2024
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
@inproceedings{LiETAL2024ASE,
author = {Li, Chengpeng and Baz, Abdelrahman and Shi, August},
title = {Reducing Test Runtime by Transforming Test Fixtures},
booktitle = {International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
year = {2024},
pages = {1757--1769},
doi = {10.1145/3691620.3695541},
}ASE NIER 2024
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results (ASE NIER 2024), pages 2273-2278, Sacramento, USA, October 2024
@inproceedings{BazETAL2024ASENIER,
author = {Baz, Abdelrahman and Huang, Minchao and Shi, August},
title = {Prioritizing Tests for Improved Runtime},
booktitle = {International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (New Ideas and Emerging Results Track)},
year = {2024},
pages = {2273--2278},
doi = {10.1145/3691620.3695298},
}ICSME 2024
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024), pages 249-261, Flagstaff, USA, October 2024
@inproceedings{BazETAL2024ICSME,
author = {Baz, Abdelrahman and Gligoric, Milos and Shi, August},
title = {Impact of {JVM} Configurations on Test Runtime},
booktitle = {International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution},
year = {2024},
pages = {249--261},
doi = {10.1109/ICSME58944.2024.00032},
}ICST 2024
IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2024), pages 93-104, Toronto, Canada, May 2024
@inproceedings{RahmanETAL2024ICST,
author = {Rahman, Shanto and Baz, Abdelrahman and Misailovic, Sasa and Shi, August},
title = {Quantizing Large-Language Models for Predicting Flaky Tests},
booktitle = {International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation},
year = {2024},
pages = {93--104},
doi = {10.1109/ICST60714.2024.00018},
}