Amin Alipour

Amin Alipour is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where he directs the Software Engineering Research Group. He holds a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and multiple advanced degrees from institutions in Iran and the U.S. His work focuses on improving safety and user experience of AI-assisted software engineering tools, with funding from NSF and IARPA. Prior to joining the U.S., he taught at the University of Kashan and Shiraz University in Iran.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Oregon State University (Advisor: Alex Groce)
• M.S. in Computer Science, Michigan Technological University
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology (Iran)

Research interests include:

• Secure AI systems, particularly in code LLMs
• Trojan detection and mitigation in neural models
• Educational impacts of AI tools in programming education
• Formal methods for software verification
• Human-AI collaboration in programming tasks

His recent articles explore cybersecurity in AI, student interactions with LLMs, and adversarial attacks on code models. He currently serves on program committees for ICER 2025 and ICSME 2025. His research group develops tools like FeatureExtractor and ProgramTransformer for analyzing neural code intelligence models.