Tarek Mahmud, Ph.D.

Tarek Mahmud, Ph.D.

he/his

Assistant Professor

Research

My research focuses on mobile software engineering, software security, AI in software engineering, and software evolution and maintenance. A complete and updated publication list is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Selected Publications

  1. Jue Huang, Tarek Mahmud, Corina Pasareanu, and Guowei Yang. “CONCUR: Benchmarking LLMs for Concurrent Code Generation.” Accepted to ISSTA 2026.

  2. Mohd. Abdul Kareem Uddin, Md Habibur Rahman, Md Wahidur Rahman, Avdesh Mishra, Tarek Mahmud, and Maleq Khan. “GXMalDetect: A Hybrid GA–XGBoost Architecture for Malware Detection Using Static Image Features.” In 2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), pp. 1–6, 2026.

  3. Tarek Mahmud, Bin Duan, Corina Pasareanu, and Guowei Yang. “Enhancing LLM Code Generation with Ensembles: A Similarity-Based Selection Approach.” In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026.

  4. Bin Duan, Tarek Mahmud, Meiru Che, Yan Yan, Naipeng Dong, Dan Dongseong Kim, and Guowei Yang. “Harnessing LLMs for Document-Guided Fuzzing of OpenCV Library.” In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 73–84, 2025.

  5. Tarek Mahmud, Bin Duan, Meiru Che, Awatif Yasmin, Anne H. H. Ngu, and Guowei Yang. “Automated Update of Android Deprecated API Usages With Large Language Models.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 52(1):70–85, 2025.

  6. Tarek Mahmud, Meiru Che, Anne Ngu, and Guowei Yang. “Why Android App Testing Falls Short: Empirical Insights from Open-Source Projects and a Practitioner Survey.” Empirical Software Engineering, 30(6):163, 2025.

  7. Tarek Mahmud, Meiru Che, and Guowei Yang. “An Empirical Study on Compatibility Issues in Android API Field Evolution.” Information and Software Technology, 2024.

  8. Awatif Yasmin, Tarek Mahmud, Minakshi Debnath, and Anne H. H. Ngu. “An Empirical Study on AI-Powered Edge Computing Architectures for Real-Time IoT Applications.” In 2024 IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2024.

  9. Tarek Mahmud, Meiru Che, and Guowei Yang. “Detecting Android API Compatibility Issues with API Differences.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023.

  10. Anne H. H. Ngu, Vangelis Metsis, Shuan Coyne, Priyanka Srinivas, Tarek Salah Uddin Mahmud, and Kyong Hee Chee. “Personalized Watch-Based Fall Detection Using a Collaborative Edge-Cloud Framework.” International Journal of Neural Systems, 2022.