Curriculum Vitae
Mehedi Sun
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at William & Mary.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia · Advisor: Dr. Oscar Chaparro
B.Sc. in Software Engineering
Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Experience
Research Assistant · William & Mary
Conduct software engineering research in the SEA Lab, advised by Dr. Oscar Chaparro.
Teaching Assistant · William & Mary
Supported undergraduate computer science courses, including introductory programming, software maintenance, and applied cybersecurity.
Software Engineer · Kona Software Lab
Contributed to migrating the administration portal for NexusPay, a payments and security software product.
Frontend Developer Intern · SELISE
Gained early industry experience building web interfaces.
Research & Publications
Automating Code-Change Rationale Generation to Support Software Maintenance Tasks
ICSE 2026 Doctoral Symposium. Accepted. Research plan for extracting and generating fine-grained, personalized, task-specific explanations of software changes.
Current research
Fine-grained rationale recovery from multiple software artifacts; language-model support for identifying solution-related issue-discussion content; practitioner perspectives on functional test-oracle engineering.
Projects
InDez
Mobile AR app that places and persistently anchors scalable, rotatable 3D furniture in a real-world view.
Wumpus World
AI agent that navigates a hazardous game environment to collect gold while avoiding pits and monsters.
Ride-Sharing App
Containerized client-server application using microservices, MongoDB, Docker, and Nginx.
Technical Skills
LanguagesPython, Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript
Backend & dataFlask, Django, ASP.NET Core, MongoDB, Docker, Nginx
Frontend & mobileAngular, Tailwind, Bootstrap, AR Foundation, Unity
ResearchLarge language models, NLP, ML/DL, empirical software engineering, software repository mining
Recognition & Service
- Summer Research Fellowship, William & Mary (2024)
- Best Poster Presentation Award, W&M CS Symposium for Graduate Studies (2023)
- National Cyber League Fall 2024: 37th of 532 experienced-student teams (94th percentile)
- IIT Software Engineers’ Community: IT Secretary (2020); Executive Member (2019)