Ratnadira Widyasari
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Ratnadira Widyasari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. She received her Ph.D. from Singapore Management University, where she was advised by Professor David Lo. Her research focuses on advancing software quality assurance through automation and explainability. She has led and conducted research resulting in publications in top-tier venues, including conferences such as ICSE and FSE, and journals such as TSE, TOSEM, and EMSE. Her work has been deployed in collaboration with a government agency, where it uncovered previously unknown security vulnerabilities, several of which have been assigned CVE IDs.
📢 I’m recruiting PhD and MSc students! I’m looking for motivated PhD students to join my group at the University of Victoria for September 2027. If you’re interested in AI for software engineering, software quality assurance, or explainable AI, see details here.
- Email: ratnadiraw@uvic.ca
- Website: https://ratnadiraw.github.io
Research Interests
- Software Engineering
- Software Quality Assurance
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI4SE
- Explainable AI
News
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:I am doing a guest lecture at the University of Copenhagen on the Empirical Research Methods in Computer Science course.
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:Our paper 'Let the Trial Begin: A Mock-Court Approach to Vulnerability Detection using LLM-Based Agents' was accepted at ICSE 2026!
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:Our paper 'A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering Research' was accepted at ACM Computing Surveys.
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:I traveled to FSE 2025 to present two accepted papers.
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:Our paper 'Back to the Basics: Rethinking Issue-Commit Linking with LLM-Assisted Retrieval' was accepted at ICSE 2026!
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:I am doing a guest lecture at the Institut Teknologi Bandung on the Advances in Software Engineering course.