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.
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 Foundation models as oracles for refactoring correctness detection — Empirical Software Engineering — PDF
- 2026 Agentic LMs: Hunting Down Test Smells — IEEE Software — PDF
- 2026 Refactoring for novices in Java: An eye tracking study on the extract vs. inline methods — Journal of Systems and Software — PDF
- 2025 Code Generation with Small Language Models: A Deep Evaluation on Codeforces — ICMLA — PDF
Research Grants & Funding
As principal investigator and project coordinator, I have secured over BRL 10 million in competitive research funding from CNPq, CAPES, FAPESQ-PB, Embrapii, Google, and other organizations. These grants include national and international collaborations with US, Norway, Belgium, and BRICS countries, supporting research on safe software evolution and testing. I have also contributed to dozens of other research projects as a team member.
Selected Awards
- Most Influential Paper nomination — International Conference on Software Engineering (2026)
- Advisor of the best undergraduate research work — International Conference on Software Engineering (2026)
- 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, Grand Finals (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
Editor-in-Chief
JSERD
Contact
- Email: rohit@dsc.ufcg.edu.br
Online
- LinkedIn: rohit-gheyi-75850361
- DBLP: dblp.org/pid/10/3240
- Google Scholar: Scholar profile