Software engineering, fairness and bias, privacy, formal verification, self-adaptive systems.
Yuriy Brun's research makes software easier to build and safer to deploy. He develops techniques that automatically enforce, mine, and repair system behavior, with work on fairness and bias, privacy, reliability, automated program repair, and automating formal verification (including with large language models). He co-directs LASER. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member.
PhD, Computer Science, University of Southern California (2008); MS, Computer Science, University of Southern California (2006); MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003); BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003); BS, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003).
After spending 2009-2012 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Professor Brun joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as an Assistant Professor in 2012.
He co-directs the Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER).
Professor Brun received the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2015, a Google Faculty Research Award in 2015, an IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Distinguished Reviewer Award in 2015, a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award in 2014, an IEEE TCSC Young Achiever in Scalable Computing Award in 2013, and an NSF CRA Postdoctoral Computing Innovation Fellowship in 2009. His work on speculative analysis was awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering in 2011 and recognized as an IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering spotlight paper in 2013. His work on privacy in cloud computing was a finalist in the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition in 2008. Professor Brun regularly serves on program committees of premier conferences on software engineering. One of Professor Brun's passions is promoting science and technology to young and underrepresented future scientists; he serves as a judge at middle- and high-school science fairs and mentors undergraduates in research and in pursuing graduate careers.