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Overview

Claire Le Goues is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, focusing primarily on research in computer science. Their work spans multiple subfields including software, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and hardware and architecture.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Claire Le Goues has contributed to a variety of publications, with significant presence in several venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University): 26 publications
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology: 7 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research): 6 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering: 3 publications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University): 3 publications

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Quality of Automated Program Repair on Real-World Defects," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Automatic Program Repair," 2021, IEEE Software
  • "VarCLR," 2022, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • "A Study on the Challenges of Using Robotics Simulators for Testing," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Mithra: Anomaly Detection as an Oracle for Cyberphysical Systems," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including Christopher S. Timperley, Edward J. Schwartz, Jeremy Lacomis, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Luke Dramko. Collaborative publication counts indicate sustained research partnerships with these individuals.

Best Publications

  • GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair

    C. Le Goues;ThanhVu Nguyen;S. Forrest;W. Weimer

  • Automatically finding patches using genetic programming

    Westley Weimer;ThanhVu Nguyen;Claire Le Goues;Stephanie Forrest

  • A systematic study of automated program repair: fixing 55 out of 105 bugs for $8 each

    Claire Le Goues;Michael Dewey-Vogt;Stephanie Forrest;Westley Weimer

  • History Driven Program Repair

    Xuan Bach D. Le;David Lo;Claire Le Goues

  • Automated program repair

    Claire Le Goues;Michael Pradel;Abhik Roychoudhury

  • Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair

    Edward K. Smith;Earl T. Barr;Claire Le Goues;Yuriy Brun

  • The ManyBugs and IntroClass Benchmarks for Automated Repair of C Programs

    Claire Le Goues;Neal Holtschulte;Edward K. Smith;Yuriy Brun

  • A genetic programming approach to automated software repair

    Stephanie Forrest;ThanhVu Nguyen;Westley Weimer;Claire Le Goues

  • A systematic study of automated program repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 bugs for $8 each

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  • Repairing Programs with Semantic Code Search (T)

    Yalin Ke;Kathryn T. Stolee;Claire Le Goues;Yuriy Brun

  • S3: syntax- and semantic-guided repair synthesis via programming by examples

    Xuan-Bach D. Le;Duc-Hiep Chu;David Lo;Claire Le Goues

  • Automatic program repair with evolutionary computation

    Westley Weimer;Stephanie Forrest;Claire Le Goues;ThanhVu Nguyen

  • A learning-to-rank based fault localization approach using likely invariants

    Tien-Duy B. Le;David Lo;Claire Le Goues;Lars Grunske

  • Current challenges in automatic software repair

    Claire Goues;Stephanie Forrest;Westley Weimer

  • Overfitting in semantics-based automated program repair

    Xuan-Bach Dinh Le;Ferdian Thung;David Lo;Claire Le Goues

  • Static automated program repair for heap properties

    Rijnard van Tonder;Claire Le Goues

  • Specification Mining with Few False Positives

    Claire Goues;Westley Weimer

  • Representations and operators for improving evolutionary software repair

    Claire Le Goues;Westley Weimer;Stephanie Forrest

  • Designing better fitness functions for automated program repair

    Ethan Fast;Claire Le Goues;Stephanie Forrest;Westley Weimer

  • DIRE: a neural approach to decompiled identifier naming

    Jeremy Lacomis;Pengcheng Yin;Edward J. Schwartz;Miltiadis Allamanis

  • A Study on Challenges of Testing Robotic Systems

    Afsoon Afzal;Claire Le Goues;Michael Hilton;Christopher Steven Timperley

  • JFIX: semantics-based repair of Java programs via symbolic PathFinder

    Xuan-Bach D. Le;Duc-Hiep Chu;David Lo;Claire Le Goues

  • [Journal First] Overfitting in Semantics-Based Automated Program Repair

    Xuan-Bach D. Le;Ferdian Thung;David Lo;Claire Le Goues

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephanie Forrest
Stephanie Forrest Arizona State University
Westley Weimer
Westley Weimer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David Lo
David Lo Singapore Management University
Yuriy Brun
Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Garlan
David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University
Graham Neubig
Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Aldrich
Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University
Ferdian Thung
Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University
Philip Koopman
Philip Koopman Carnegie Mellon University
Rui Abreu
Rui Abreu University of Porto

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