Hamid Bagheri

Hamid Bagheri is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he conducts cutting-edge research at the intersection of software engineering, security, and formal methods. He also serves as a faculty associate of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine, and co-directs the ESQuaReD Lab (Engineering Software Quality and Reliability through Deductive methods), which focuses on ensuring software quality through rigorous engineering approaches.

Dr. Bagheri's research spans several critical areas including security of mobile devices and IoT systems, scaling formal verification with machine learning, software analysis and testing, dependable cyber-physical systems, and automated program repair and fault localization. His work combines theoretical rigor with practical applications, addressing real-world challenges in software security and reliability through publications in top venues like ICSE, FSE, ASE, and IEEE/ACM Transactions journals.

His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward integrating machine learning techniques with formal methods to enhance software analysis capabilities. This includes leveraging transformers for database design optimization, neuro-symbolic approaches for certified software synthesis, and large language models for repairing formal specifications, reflecting his ability to adapt to emerging technologies while maintaining a strong theoretical foundation.

Dr. Bagheri has received numerous prestigious awards including the EPSCoR FIRST Award, the NSF CISE Career Research Initiation Initiative Award, multiple Distinguished Paper Awards from top conferences, and teaching honors such as the SoC Student Choice Outstanding Teaching Award (2023-2024) and the CSE Outstanding Teaching Award (2020-2021).

As an advisor, Dr. Bagheri has mentored several successful PhD students including Mohannad Alhanahnah (who joined Chalmers University as a tenure-track faculty member in Fall 2024) and Clay Stevens (who joined Iowa State University as a tenure-track faculty member in Fall 2023). His research has been supported by significant grants from NSF and other funding agencies, with recent work focusing on automated specification repair, security analysis of IoT systems, and verification of network protocols.

The ESQuaReD Lab, which Dr. Bagheri co-directs, brings together a multidisciplinary team focused on addressing critical challenges in software quality and reliability through innovative engineering approaches and formal analysis techniques, with applications spanning mobile security, IoT systems, and cyber-physical systems.