Manuel Rigger

Manuel Rigger is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore in the School of Computing and leads the Trustworthy Engineering of Software Technologies (TEST) Lab. His research focuses on improving data-centric systems, particularly their reliability, having found over 1,000 unique bugs in database systems.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science (2019) and MSc in Software Engineering (2015) from Johannes Kepler University Linz; MPhil in Chinese Philosophy (2015) from Xiamen University
• Research Highlights: Developed SQLancer – an automated testing framework that found 500+ bugs in DBMSs; created Query Plan Guidance (QPG) for efficient logic bug detection; received best paper awards at ICSE '23 and EuroSys '24

Scientific Awards:

• Recipient of 6 distinguished artifact/reviewer awards
• Major industry support from Google, AWS, and Microsoft
• Developed tools adopted by Oracle GraalVM and SQLite

Teaching: Lecturer for CS3213 Foundations of Software Engineering and CS6223 Advanced Topics in Software Testing. Supervises multiple PhD/MSc theses on database testing and compiler reliability.