Hello 🌏, welcome to the Software Assurance and Fault Elimination Group. Our research focuses on building reliable software using program analysis as well applying AI. If you are a student of CSE@IIT Kharagpur, free to email me if you are interested in a thesis/research project in any of the following topics:

• Software Testing
• AI for Software Engineering
• System Security
• Code Corpus Analysis
• Trustworthy AI for SE

I am actively looking for PhD students. If you are interested, please email (jibesh@cse.iitkgp.ac.in) me with your CV and a brief summary of your research interests. You may also check the rolling PhD application of the institute.

Current Members

PhD Students

Subhajit Saha	Ph.D.	Jan. 2025 -	API deprecation analysis
Aritra Mukherjee	Ph.D.	Jul. 2025 -	RAG-based test generation
Shyamal Kumar Surai	Ph.D. (Working Professional)	Jul. 2025 -	TBD

Research Fellows

Lohith Sowmiyan Senthilkumar	Research Fellow	Feb. 2026 -	Security analysis of AI generated code

M.Tech. Students

Undergrad Students

Aashray Tandon	Undergrad	Jul. 2025 -	Conventional commit generation
Jada Venkata Yaswanth	Undergrad	Jul. 2025 -	Classifying AI generated code
Jadhav Uday Kiran	Undergrad	Jul. 2025 -	Analysis of code review discussions

Alumni

Riya	M. Tech.	Jul. 2025 - May 2026	Analysis of lint suppressions in popular Rust packages
Krishna Biswakarma	M. Tech.	Jul. 2025 - May 2026	Exemplar selection for better test case generation
Galipelli Sai Mallikarjun	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - May 2026	Security analysis of npm packages
Gaurang Gupta	Undergrad	Jul. 2025 - May 2026	Attacking white-box LLMs
Bharathi Chaudhury	Research Fellow	Nov. 2025 - Feb. 2026	Security analysis of AI generated code
Chappa Jayanth Naidu	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - Dec. 2025	Python type inference improvements
Dhruv Agja	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - May 2025	Improved Code representation
Budagam Devichand	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - May 2025	Improved tokenizer for richer NLP representation
Rishi Raj	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - May 2025	Intent prediction of commits
Astitva	Undergrad	Jul. 2024 - May 2025	Generate secure code using commits