Salil Purandare

Salil Purandare

Position
  • PhD Student
I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, working with Dr. Myra Cohen on software testing for cyber-physical systems. My work primarily focuses on failure avoidance for autonomous aerial systems.

Area of Expertise

  • Software Engineering
  • Software Testing
  • Cyber-physical Systems

Education

  • B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT-Delhi, India

Publications

  1. S. Purandare and M. B. Cohen, "Exploration of Failures in an sUAS Controller Software Product Line". In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC '24), September 2-6, 2024, Niederanven, Luxembourg. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 125–135. https://doi.org/10.1145/3646548.3672597.
  2. [Honorable Mention] T. Chambers, M. Vierhauser, A. Agrawal, M. Murphy, J. M. Brauer, S. Purandare, M. B. Cohen, and J. Cleland-Huang, "HIFuzz: Human Interaction Fuzzing for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642958.
  3. [Best Student Paper Award] S. Purandare, U. Sinha, M. N. A. Islam, J. Cleland-Huang and M. B. Cohen, "Self-Adaptive Mechanisms for Misconfigurations in Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems," 2023 IEEE/ACM 18th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp. 169-180, https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAMS59076.2023.00030.
  4. J. Cleland-Huang, N. Chawla, M.B. Cohen, Md N. Al Islam, U. Sinha, L. Spirkovska, Y. Ma, S. Purandare and M. T. Chowdhury, “Towards Real-Time Safety Analysis of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems in the National Airspace,” in AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3540.
  5. D. Sondhi, A. Gupta, S. Purandare, A. Rana, D. Kaushal and R. Purandare, "On Indirectly Dependent Documentation in the Context of Code Evolution: A Study," 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2021, pp. 1498-1509, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00134.
  6. D. Sondhi, M. Jobanputra, D. Rani, S. Purandare, S. Sharma and R. Purandare, "Mining Similar Methods for Test Adaptation," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 2262-2276, 1 July 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3057163.