Rohan Padhye

Rohan Padhye is an Assistant Professor at the Software and Societal Systems Department within Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He leads the PASTA Lab and is affiliate faculty at CyLab.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley
• Master's degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay

His research spans software engineering, programming languages, systems, and security. He develops techniques for automated bug detection using dynamic program analysis and coverage-guided fuzz testing. His work includes tools like ChocoPy for compilers education and Fray for concurrency testing.

Recent publications focus on: date/time bugs in Python, LLM-generated property-based tests, exception dependency analysis, and distributed system fuzzing. He has received multiple NSF grants and Amazon Research Awards.

• 2025: NSF Grant for Practical Controlled Concurrency Testing
• 2025: Amazon Research Award for property-based testing
• 2022: Goldwater Scholarship for John Billos (PASTA Lab member)

He advises PhD students including Ao Li and Vasudev Vikram, and has mentored numerous undergraduate researchers through the REUSE program. His group's work is funded by NSF, CyLab, and Amazon.