Sara Baradaran
Ginsburg Hall (GCS), 1031 Downey Way
Los Angeles, CA, USA
I am a PhD student in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Dr. Mukund Raghothaman.
My research interests lie broadly in software engineering and programming languages. I previously earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science form the University of Southern California and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology (IUT).
I am always happy to work with new people on interesting problems. If you are interested in collaborating, feel free to send me an email!
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| Jun 2026 | I attended PLDI 2026 at Boulder and presented our SemQL paper at SOAP. |
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| Jun 2026 | Our paper “Prosecutor: Bayesian Counterfactual Fault Localization” got accepted at OOPSLA 2026. |
| Apr 2026 | I passed my PhD qualifying exam! |
| Apr 2026 | Our paper “LLM-Integrated Declarative Program Analysis” got accepted at SOAP Workshop of PLDI 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | I served as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for PLDI 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | Our paper “Effective Minimization of Failure-Inducing Tests Using Convention-Aware Slicing” got accepted at VST Workshop of SANER 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | I served as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for OOPSLA 2026. |
| Dec 2025 | I received my Master’s degree from University of Southern California (USC). |
| Dec 2025 | Our paper paper “Reusing Legacy Code in Wasm: Key Challenges of Compilation and Code Semantics Preservation” got accepted at SANER 2026. |
| Sep 2025 | I served as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for ACSAC 2025. |
| Feb 2025 | I attended SoCal PLS 2025 at UC San Diego and gave a talk on “Fault Localization Through Probabilistic Models of Program Execution”. |