Alex Groce

Alex Groce is an Associate Professor at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) at Northern Arizona University. He joined NAU in 2017 after serving as faculty at Oregon State University where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. Previously, he was a core member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Laboratory for Reliable Software and taught software testing at Caltech.

Educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2005)
• B.S. in Computer Science and Multidisciplinary Studies from North Carolina State University (1999)

His research focuses on software engineering with emphasis on testing techniques for complex systems. Primary interests include:

• Development of testing tools like TSTL (Python testing)
• DeepState (C/C++ unit testing with symbolic execution)
• Mutation testing frameworks including universalmutator and MuttFuzz
• Security/reliability of embedded and systems software

Dr. Groce leads significant open-source projects and serves on program committees for top conferences including ISSTA, ICSE, ASE, and FSE.