Prof Abhik Roychoudhury Inducted into Inaugural Class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy

Provost's Chair Professor Abhik Roychoudhury has been named a member of the inaugural class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy, joining a global cohort recognised for lasting contributions to software engineering research, practice, and education.

The Academy was established by ACM SIGSOFT, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, as a standing body of honour marking the organisation's 50th anniversary. It was previewed at the FSE 2026 conference in Montreal in July, before the inaugural class was formally announced. New members will be elected annually through nominations from the community.

Prof Roychoudhury has been with the Department of Computer Science at NUS Computing since 2001, where he leads the Trustworthy and Secure Software (TSS) research group. His work on semantic and symbolic program repair, including the SemFix approach recognised with an ICSE Most Influential Paper (Test-of-Time) Award, helped establish program repair as a field of its own. That line of research later grew into AutoCodeRover, an autonomous program-improvement agent that was acquired by Sonar and commercialised as the SonarQube Remediation Agent, where he served as Senior Scientific Advisor.

His group's work on fuzz testing and symbolic execution has similarly shaped how the field approaches software security, earning recognition including the IEEE New Directions Award. Prof Roychoudhury is the current Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), sits on the editorial board of Communications of the ACM, and has chaired both ICSE and FSE, the field's two flagship conferences, as well as the FSE Steering Committee. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2024 and was the inaugural recipient of the NUS Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, with former doctoral students now on faculty at institutions around the world.

The recognition arrives alongside a decade-long throughline in his research: from the original SemFix paper in 2013, through the ICSE Test-of-Time award for that work, to AutoCodeRover's acquisition by Sonar and its commercial launch this year as the SonarQube Remediation Agent.

For more information, visit https://www2.sigsoft.org/academy/inaugural-class.html.