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Dec25
Back in Beautiful Stellenbosch 🇿🇦
( Stellenbosch, South Africa )

I will be attending the IFIP WG 2.11 meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa from 2-5 December 2025. Stay tuned for more details about my talk. Hoza Dezemba!!!

Apr25
Paper accepted at APR 2025

Our paper on Which Inputs Trigger my Patch? with Martin Eberlein and Lars Grunke would appear at APR 2025.

Apr25
On SLE ' 25 PC

I am serving on the program committee of the SLE ' 25 conference. Look forward to reading about some interesting PL research.
Deadline:   5th March

Apr24
Paper accepted at MSR 2024

Our paper on P3: A Dataset of Partial Program Patches in collaboration with the good folks from LMU would appear at MSR 2024.

Mar24
On ICSE ' 25 PC

I am serving on the program committee of the ICSE ' 25 conference. Look forward to reading about some interesting Software Engineering research.
Deadline 1st Cycle:   23rd March
Deadline 2nd Cycle:   3rd August

Jul23
We are moving to Berlin (Postdoctoral Researcher)
( Berlin, Germany )

I joined Prof. Dr. Lars Grunske’s Software Engineering Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Mar23
Wake up Mr … Graduation. Yep yep 🥳🎉

PhD graduation. Lost for words
Video:   Graduation 2023 (March): Science

Mar23
Postdoctoral Researcher @ SU
( Stellenbosch, South Africa )

I started working as a posdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University with the Fisch, mostly carrying forward work I did for my PhD.

Jan23
Defended PhD Thesis

I successfully defended my thesis.
It was an honor to have Eric Van Wyk, Vadim Zaytsev, Cornelia Inggs, Bill Tucker, and my advisor Bernd Fischer (the fisch) on my committee!
Slides:   Fault Localization and Repair for Grammarware

Nov22
PhD thesis submitted 🥳🎉

This is huge! Glad to have finally submitted my PhD thesis. What a journey it has been 🥳🎉

Jun22

Feb22
TA for RW713
( Dept. of Computer Science, Stellenbosch University )

I am a teaching assistant for the honours course on Compiler Construction (RW 713) course, taught by my advisor Prof. Bernd Fischer.

Oct21
SLE ' 21 Presentation
( Virtual, Virtual )

I presented our work Fixing broken Grammars at SLE 2021.
Slides:   Automatic Grammar Repair

Sep21
Grammar Repair SLE ' 21

My work on Automatic Grammar Repair would appear at SLE 2021

Sep21
On SLE ' 21 AEC

I am serving on the artefact evaluation committee of the SLE ' 21 conference.

Jun21

Feb21
TA for RW713
( Dept. of Computer Science, Stellenbosch University )

I am a teaching assistant for the honours course on Compiler Construction (RW 713) course, taught by my advisor Prof. Bernd Fischer.

Sep20
gTutr SLE ' 20

Our work on An interactive feedback system for grammar development with Chelsea Barraball, and my advisor Bernd Fischer would appear at SLE 2020

Nov20

Jul20
TA for RW713
( Dept. of Computer Science, Stellenbosch University )

I am a teaching assistant for the honours course on Compiler Construction (RW 713) course, taught by my advisor Prof. Bernd Fischer.

Apr20
My MSc has been upgraded to a PhD

I passed my upgrade proposal from MSc to a PhD program. One step closer to getting the P. This happened during the first week of hard lockdown in South Africa due to covid-19. Everyone was still figuring out this work from home thing. It was really tough is an understatement.

Oct19
Best Paper Award @ SLE 19

Our Breaking Parsers paper received a best paper award at SLE 2019.

Oct19
SLE ' 19 Presentation
( Athens, Greece )

I presented Localization work on Context Free Grammars at SLE 2019. My very first conference presentation!!!
Slides:   Spectrum-Based Fault Localization for Context-Free Grammars

Aug19
Breaking Parsers SLE ' 19

Our work on Breaking Parsers: Mutation-Based Generation of Negative Test Suites with Jan Taljaard and my advisor Bernd Fischer would appear at SLE 2019

Nov19

Jul19
TA for RW713
( Dept. of Computer Science, Stellenbosch University )

I am a teaching assistant for the honours course on Compiler Construction (RW 713) course, taught by my advisor Prof. Bernd Fischer.