Donghwan Shin

I am a lecturer (assistant professor in the American system) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

My research and teaching interests lie in mutation testing, testing for ML-enabled cyber-physical systems (e.g., ML-enabled automated driving systems), and log analysis (e.g., model inference and anomaly detection). I have published many research papers at venues such as ICSE, ICST, ISSTA, and MODELS and journals such as TSE, EMSE, and STVR. Please see my Google Scholar page for details.

I did my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Doo-Hwan Bae at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. I hold a B.C. and M.S. in Computer Science, both from KAIST. This was followed by four years as a research associate/scientist at the SVV (Software Verification and Validation) group, led by Prof. Lionel Briand, at the Interdisciplinary Centre for ICT Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg. My full CV is available here. 

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Recent News

21 January 2024

Three new papers accepted! Mutation-based Consistency Testing for Evaluating the Code Understanding Capability of LLMs (CAIN 2024), Tuning the feedback controller gains is a simple way to improve autonomous driving performance (Control 2024), and Toward Automated Compliance Checking of Fund Activities Using  Runtime Verification Techniques (FinanSE 2024, extended abstract). See Publications for more details. 

14 December 2023

Our journal-first paper titled "Rigorous Assessment of Model Inference Accuracy using Language Cardinality" has been accepted at TOSEM. This is collaborative work with the University of Luxembourg and Imperial College London. 

7 November 2023

Happy to join as a PC member of SESoS 2024 and TestADS 2024. Please consider submitting your papers!

14 October 2023

Our journal-first paper titled "Identifying the Hazard Boundary of ML-enabled Autonomous Systems Using Cooperative Co-Evolutionary Search" has been accepted at TSE. This is collaborative work with the University of Luxembourg and the University of Ottawa.

22 August 2023

We have a new Call for Papers titled "Innovations in Software System Testing with Deep Learning" as a Special Issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal.

27 July 2023

Happy to join as a PC member of ICST 2024 - Research Track. Please consider submitting your papers (see CfP here)!

13 July 2023

I am thrilled that I won the EPSRC New Investigator Award (title: SimpliFaiS: Simplification of Failure Scenarios for Machine Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems)!

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