Rohit Gheyi
Software Engineering • AI DevTools • Software Testing

Rohit Gheyi

PhD in Computer Science; professor and research leader with 15+ years coordinating industry R&D in software engineering and AI. Strong background in AI developer tools (LLM testing/evaluation, reliability, and automation for code).

Full Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande

Research leadership in software engineering, program evolution, and AI-enabled developer tooling.

Industry R&D / Product Lead (AI & DevTools)

Problem discovery, specs/PRDs, roadmaps, metrics, and cross-functional delivery.

PhD + internship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PhD in Computer Science with research training experience at MIT.

DBLP Google Scholar Contact

Research

Safer program evolution

Techniques and tools to reduce regressions during change.

AI DevTools reliability

LLM testing/evaluation, robustness, error analysis, and cost/latency trade-offs.

Industry R&D leadership

Discovery → requirements → roadmap → delivery cadence with measurable success criteria.

Selected Publications

  • 2026 Agentic LMs: Hunting Down Test Smells — IEEE Software — PDF
  • 2025 Code Generation with Small Language Models: A Deep Evaluation on Codeforces — ICMLA — PDF
  • 2025 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Small Language Models in Detecting Refactoring Bugs — PDF

Selected Awards

  • Master Coach Award — International Collegiate Programming Contest (2025)
  • Distinguished Researcher — Brazilian Computer Society (2024)
  • Advisor of the second best graduate research work — ACM Student Research Competition (2024)
  • Advisor of the third best undergraduate research work — ACM Student Research Competition (2020)
  • Advisor of the third best PhD thesis in Latin America — CLTD (2017)
  • Coach Award — International Collegiate Programming Contest (2017)
  • Advisor of the best PhD thesis in Computer Science in Brazil (2015)
  • Advisor of the best graduate research work — ACM Student Research Competition (2012)
  • Advisor of the second best undergraduate research work — ACM Student Research Competition (2010)
  • Advisor of the best Masters thesis in Latin America — CLTM (2010)

Selected Activities

Program committee

ICSE, FSE, ICSME, SANER, SPLC, SBES

Journal reviewer

TSE, EMSE, TOSEM, IST, JSS, IEEE Software

Keynotes

SBES, SBMF, VEM

Contact

Email

Online

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