AI & Software Intelligence

Collective Impact

The Numbers Behind the Research

Combined metrics across all four AI-for-SE faculty members at William & Mary.

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Total Citations

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Publications

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ACM / IEEE Fellows

2

NSF CAREER Awards

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Best / Distinguished Paper Awards

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PhD Graduates

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Current PhD Students

5+

Industry Adopters (Google, Meta, ...)

Faculty

Meet the Team

Four complementary research programs, united by a focus on intelligent software development.

Denys Poshyvanyk

Chancellor Professor

SEMERU Lab

~24,800 citations · 300+ publications

Code generation, clone detection, program comprehension, and deep learning for software engineering.

ACM Fellow (2026) -- top 1% of ACM members
IEEE Fellow (2023) -- fewer than 0.1% of IEEE members
6+ Most Influential Paper Awards (MSR, ICPC, ICSME, SCAM)
10+ Distinguished / Best Paper Awards (ICSE, FSE, ASE, IEEE S&P)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)
Program Co-Chair, FSE 2025; Senior AE, ACM TOSEM
11 PhD graduates

Oscar Chaparro

Associate Professor

SEA Lab

~1,468 citations

Bug reports, software refactoring, program comprehension, and software maintenance intelligence.

NSF CAREER Award (2023)
4 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (FSE, ICSE, ICSME)
David Daniel Thesis Award (top dissertation, UT Dallas)
7+ Distinguished Reviewer Awards
$1M+ in NSF funding

Antonio Mastropaolo

Assistant Professor

AURA Lab

~1,097 citations · 40+ papers

Large language models for code, automated documentation, and sustainable AI for software engineering.

2 Distinguished Paper Awards (MSR 2024, ICPC 2024)
NSF CRII Award (2025)
IEEE Computer editorial board
19 papers published in 2025 alone

Yue Xiao

Assistant Professor

Security

~242 citations (early career)

Software supply-chain security, privacy compliance, and GenAI security analysis.

IU Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award (1st place)
NDSS 2025 Distinguished Artifact Award
Research adopted by Google, Meta, Twitter/X, WeChat, Opera
Publications at CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS
Former IBM Research scientist

Research

Four Pillars of AI & Software Intelligence

Complementary research programs spanning the full stack of intelligent software development.

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Poshyvanyk · SEMERU

Deep Learning for Software Engineering

Code generation, semantic clone detection, program repair, and neural models of source code.

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Chaparro · SEA

Software Maintenance Intelligence

Automated bug-report analysis, refactoring recommendations, and program comprehension tools.

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Mastropaolo · AURA

Generative AI for Code

LLM-based code documentation, energy-efficient model training, and sustainable AI for SE.

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Xiao

Software Security & Privacy

Supply-chain vulnerability analysis, privacy compliance at scale, and GenAI security auditing.

Impact

From Lab to Production

Research outcomes adopted by major technology companies and open-source communities.

🌐 Platform-Scale Security

Xiao's security and privacy tools have been adopted by Google, Meta, Twitter/X, WeChat, and Opera to protect billions of users.

⚙️ Deep Learning Toolkits

Poshyvanyk's DL-for-SE techniques have influenced industry-wide approaches to code intelligence, clone detection, and program repair.

💻 AI-Assisted Development

Mastropaolo's work on LLM-based code documentation and generation informs next-generation developer workflows.

🐛 Smarter Bug Management

Chaparro's automated bug-report analysis and quality tools improve how development teams diagnose and resolve defects.

Milestones

Two Decades of Recognition

2006

Poshyvanyk — First Best Paper Award (ICPC)

2013

Poshyvanyk — NSF CAREER Award

2023

Poshyvanyk — IEEE Fellow
Chaparro — NSF CAREER Award

2024

Mastropaolo — Distinguished Papers at MSR and ICPC
Publications at CCS, USENIX Security (Xiao)

2025

Mastropaolo — NSF CRII Award
Xiao — NDSS Distinguished Artifact Award
Poshyvanyk — FSE Program Co-Chair

2026

Poshyvanyk — ACM Fellow
CodeLab learning hub launches

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