Dr. Rohan Padhye

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, primarily affiliated with the Software Societal Systems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2020 and received the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award. He previously worked at Microsoft Research during the summer of 2018 and Samsung Research America in the summer of 2017, alongside a tenure at IBM Research India from 2013 to 2015. He received his master’s degree from IIT Bombay in 2013. His research investigates and develops techniques to automatically discover software bugs and spans fields such as software engineering, programming languages, systems, and security. The overarching theme of his research is to enable specialization in program analysis and automated testing tools using artifacts that incorporate the knowledge of domain experts. His recent projects include the use of dynamic program analysis and coverage-guided fuzz testing. His work has received multiple awards related to paper artifacts at major conferences.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

— Present

Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA

Teaches and conducts research in Software Societal Systems.

Requirements for Carnegie Mellon University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
GRE General
Verbal
Required:158
Quantitative
Required:149
Analytical Writing
Required:4
Overall
Required:4
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Psychology or related field Research experience/publications
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Transcripts
  • GRE scores (optional but reported in profile)
  • English Proficiency (TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo)
Specialization Notes

Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.