Manuel Rigger

Manuel Rigger is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), leading the TEST Lab (Trustworthy Engineering of Software Technologies) within the PL/SE group at the School of Computing. His research focuses on improving the reliability of data-centric systems through automated testing frameworks and formal methods.

• Education: PhD from Johannes Kepler University Linz (supervised by Hanspeter Mössenböck), postdoctoral work at ETH Zurich (Advanced Software Technologies Lab under Zhendong Su).
• Research Interests:
  • Automated testing of database systems
  • Programming language design and verification
  • Incremental build systems
  • Formal methods for software reliability

Key Contributions: Developed tools like SQLancer (for finding bugs in databases) and CERT (performance issue detection). His work has uncovered over 800 bugs in real-world systems. Awards: Recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant (2025) for groundbreaking research in software security and testing.

Service Roles: Organizer of ICFP/SPLASH 2025 Outdoor Activities, committee member for OOPSLA Review, PLDI Artifact Evaluation, and ICSE Program Committee. Also actively involved in organizing workshops (e.g., Fuzzing & Software Security Summer School 2025).