Manish Motwani

Manish Motwani is an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Oregon State University. His research focuses on improving software quality through automation, including techniques for analyzing code repositories, automated testing, program repair, and natural-language-driven validation. He has active collaborations with Georgia Tech and has developed tools like Swami, RAFL, and SOSRepair to address software maintenance challenges.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Prior research at Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) in Pune, India

Research Interests:

• Automated Program Repair to address patch overfitting issues
• Testing and Debugging of High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications
• Automated REST API specification generation via static analysis
• Integrating natural-language artifacts (bug reports, requirements) into repair workflows
• Ontological modeling for regulatory and product requirements

Service and Contributions:

• PC member for IEEE/ACM ICPC (2025), ACM ISSTA (2025), and multiple tracks at ICSE, FSE, ESEM
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• Developed publicly available benchmarks and frameworks (JaRFLy, Swami, SOSRepair)

Patents:

• US Patent 10146762B2 (Dec 2018): Automated Business Rule Classification
• US Patent 9972016B2 (May 2018): Automated Regulatory Interpretation