Denys Poshyvanyk

Denys Poshyvanyk is the Chancellor Professor of Computer Science and Graduate Director at William & Mary, where he leads the SEMERU research group. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University under Dr. Andrian Marcus.

Research Interests:

• Software Engineering (SE), with a focus on software analytics, evolution, and maintenance
• Deep Learning for Software Engineering (DL4SE) and SE for deep learning (SE4DL)
• Program comprehension, mobile app testing and security, reverse engineering
• Large-scale mining of software repositories and traceability

His research integrates AI and machine learning to improve software development practices, with a strong emphasis on empirical studies and tool development. Recent work explores large language models (LLMs), GUI testing, and quantum-classical software integration.

Awards and Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award (2013)
• IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Member
• Multiple Best Paper and ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
• Most Influential Paper Awards (ICSME, ICPC, SCAM, MSR)

Service and Leadership:

• Senior Associate Editor, ACM TOSEM
• Editorial Board, Empirical Software Engineering, JSEP, SCP
• Steering Committee: FSE, ASE, AIware
• PC Co-chair for FSE’25, MOBILESoft'24, ASE'21; General Chair for MOBILESoft'24
• Member, CRA-E Board of Directors

He has advised numerous students who have secured faculty and research positions. His work is widely cited and has significantly influenced the software engineering community through both theoretical contributions and practical tools.