publications

2026

1. ASE’26

   RefineAct: Automatic Runtime Verification of LLM Agent Actions

   Fraol Batole, Foutse Khomh, and Hridesh Rajan

   In 2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2026

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{batole2026refineact,
     title = {RefineAct: Automatic Runtime Verification of LLM Agent Actions},
     author = {Batole, Fraol and Khomh, Foutse and Rajan, Hridesh},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},
     publisher = {ASE},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2. TSE’26

   Typestate-based Fault Localization of API Usage Violations in a Deep Learning Program

   Fraol Batole, Ruchira Manke, Robert Dyer, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Jan 2026

   Journal-First presentation at FSE’2026 (Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)

   Bib PDF

   @article{batole2026neuralstate,
     author = {Batole, Fraol and Manke, Ruchira and Dyer, Robert and Nguyen, Tien N. and Rajan, Hridesh},
     title = {Typestate-based Fault Localization of API Usage Violations in a Deep Learning Program},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
     note = {Journal-First presentation at FSE'2026 (Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)},
     month = jan,
     year = {2026},
   }

3. FSE’26

   CoRenameAgent: A Human-In-The-Loop, Multi-Agent Tool for Coordinated Rename Refactoring

   Abhiram Bellur, Mohammed Raihan Ullah, Fraol Batole, and 12 more authors

   In FSE’2026: The 34th ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (Tool Demo Track), Jan 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{batole2026corenameagent,
     author = {Bellur, Abhiram and Ullah, Mohammed Raihan and Batole, Fraol and Kansara, Mohit and Ishikawa, Kai and Chen, Haifeng and Morimoto, Masaharu and Shota, Motoura and Hosomi, Takeo and Zharov, Yaroslav and Bryksin, Timofey and Nguyen, Tien N. and Rajan, Hridesh and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Dig, Danny},
     title = {CoRenameAgent: A Human-In-The-Loop, Multi-Agent Tool for Coordinated Rename Refactoring},
     booktitle = {FSE'2026: The 34th ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (Tool Demo Track)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. ICSE’25

   An LLM-Based Agent-Oriented Approach for Automated Code Design Issue Localization

   Fraol Batole, David OBrien, Tien N. Nguyen, and 2 more authors

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Jan 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{batole2025localizeAgent,
     title = {An LLM-Based Agent-Oriented Approach for Automated Code Design Issue Localization},
     author = {Batole, Fraol and OBrien, David and Nguyen, Tien N. and Dyer, Robert and Rajan, Hridesh},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {2025 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
     publisher = {ICSE},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2. ICSME’25

   Leveraging LLMs, IDEs, and Semantic Embeddings for Automated Move Method Refactoring

   Abhiram Bellur, Fraol Batole, Malinda Dilhara, and 11 more authors

   In ICSME’2025: The 41st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Auchland, New Zealand, Sep 2025

   arXiv Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{icsme2025mmpro,
     author = {Bellur, Abhiram and Batole, Fraol and Dilhara, Malinda and Zharov, Yaroslav and Bryksin, Timofey and Ishikawa, Kai and Chen, Haifeng and Morimoto, Masaharu and Shota, Motoura and Hosomi, Takeo and Nguyen, Tien N. and Rajan, Hridesh and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Dig, Danny},
     title = {Leveraging LLMs, IDEs, and Semantic Embeddings for Automated Move Method Refactoring},
     booktitle = {ICSME'2025: The 41st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution},
     location = {Auchland, New Zealand},
     month = sep,
     year = {2025},
   }

3. IDE’25

   IDE Native, Foundation Model Based Agents for Software Refactoring

   Abhiram Bellur, and Fraol Batole

   In 2nd IDE workshop co-located with 2025 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Sep 2025

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{refactoringAgentPosition,
     title = {IDE Native, Foundation Model Based Agents for Software Refactoring},
     author = {Bellur, Abhiram and Batole, Fraol},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {2nd IDE workshop co-located with 2025 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
     publisher = {IDE},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

4. FSE’25

   IRepair: An Intent-Aware Approach to Repair Data-Driven Errors in Large Language Models

   Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz, Astha Singh, Fraol Batole, and 1 more author

   In ESEC/FSE’2025: The 33st ACM Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway, Jun 2025

   arXiv Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{imtiaz2025irepair,
     author = {Imtiaz, Sayem Mohammad and Singh, Astha and Batole, Fraol and Rajan, Hridesh},
     title = {IRepair: An Intent-Aware Approach to Repair Data-Driven Errors in Large Language Models},
     booktitle = {ESEC/FSE'2025: The 33st ACM Foundations of Software Engineering},
     location = {Trondheim, Norway},
     month = jun,
     year = {2025},
   }

2023

1. ICSE’23

   Decomposing a recurrent neural network into modules for enabling reusability and replacement

   Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz, Fraol Batole, Astha Singh, and 3 more authors

   In 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Jun 2023

   arXiv Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{imtiaz2023decomposing,
     title = {Decomposing a recurrent neural network into modules for enabling reusability and replacement},
     author = {Imtiaz, Sayem Mohammad and Batole, Fraol and Singh, Astha and Pan, Rangeet and Cruz, Breno Dantas and Rajan, Hridesh},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
     pages = {1020--1032},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {ICSE},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }