2026 Yuriy Brun: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	41	8651	8404	3709	3563	137	10797

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ACM Distinguished Member
2017 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Yuriy Brun is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the broad field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on several subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Software, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Signal Processing.

The main topics covered by Yuriy Brun's body of work include Software Engineering Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Logic, Programming, and Type Systems, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, and Data Visualization and Analytics.

Yuriy Brun has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Yuriy Brun are:

"Quality of Automated Program Repair on Real-World Defects" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
"Visualizing Distributed System Executions" (2020) published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
"TacTok: semantics-aware proof synthesis" (2020) published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
"Diversity-driven automated formal verification" (2022) published in Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
"Passport: Improving Automated Formal Verification Using Identifiers" (2023) published in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

Frequent collaborators in their research include the following individuals:

Emily First
Zhanna Kaufman
Talia Ringer
Alex Sanchez-Stern
Cindy Xiong

Yuriy Brun has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with distinctions such as ACM Distinguished Member in 2019 and ACM Senior Member in 2017.

Best Publications

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems : A Second Research Roadmap

Rogério de Lemos;Holger Giese;Hausi A. Müller;Mary Shaw

2250
Citations
Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap

Betty H. Cheng;Rogério Lemos;Holger Giese;Paola Inverardi

1381
Citations
Engineering Self-Adaptive Systems through Feedback Loops

Yuriy Brun;Giovanna Marzo Serugendo;Cristina Gacek;Holger Giese

766
Citations
Fairness testing: testing software for discrimination

Sainyam Galhotra;Yuriy Brun;Alexandra Meliou

406
Citations
Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair

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

365
Citations
The ManyBugs and IntroClass Benchmarks for Automated Repair of C Programs

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

349
Citations
Proactive detection of collaboration conflicts

Yuriy Brun;Reid Holmes;Michael D. Ernst;David Notkin

295
Citations
Leveraging existing instrumentation to automatically infer invariant-constrained models

Ivan Beschastnikh;Yuriy Brun;Sigurd Schneider;Michael Sloan

285
Citations
Repairing Programs with Semantic Code Search (T)

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

255
Citations
Finding latent code errors via machine learning over program executions

Yuriy Brun;Michael D. Ernst

255
Citations
The plastic surgery hypothesis

Earl T. Barr;Yuriy Brun;Premkumar Devanbu;Mark Harman

248
Citations
Inferring models of concurrent systems from logs of their behavior with CSight

Ivan Beschastnikh;Yuriy Brun;Michael D. Ernst;Arvind Krishnamurthy

222
Citations
Software fairness

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168
Citations
Preventing undesirable behavior of intelligent machines.

Philip S. Thomas;Bruno Castro da Silva;Andrew G. Barto;Stephen Giguere

151
Citations
Arithmetic computation in the tile assembly model: Addition and multiplication

Yuriy Brun

140
Citations
Software engineering for self-adaptive systems: research challenges in the provision of assurances

Rogério de Lemos;David Garlan;Carlo Ghezzi;Holger Giese

121
Citations
Early Detection of Collaboration Conflicts and Risks

Yuriy Brun;Reid Holmes;Michael D. Ernst;David Notkin

118
Citations
That's What She Said: Double Entendre Identification

Chloe Kiddon;Yuriy Brun

114
Citations
Automatic mining of specifications from invocation traces and method invariants

Ivo Krka;Yuriy Brun;Nenad Medvidovic

113
Citations
Solving NP-complete problems in the tile assembly model

Yuriy Brun

102
Citations
The four-color theorem

Yuriy Brun

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California

Michael D. Ernst University of Washington

David Notkin University of Washington

Leon J. Osterweil University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mary Shaw Carnegie Mellon University

Marin Litoiu York University

Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University

Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington

Hausi A. Müller University of Victoria

Luciano Baresi Polytechnic University of Milan

External Links

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