Achievements
Conferences
“Search-based testing for accurate fault localization in CPS”, 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00024
“FIM: Fault Injection and Mutation for Simulink”, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2022, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3558932
“Property-based Mutation Testing”, 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023, Dublin, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.13615
Journal Publications:
Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani, Dejan Nickovic, Drishti Yadav. 2024. Signal Feature Coverage and Testing for CPS Dataflow Models. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (that is considered, together with IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, to be the top journal in Software Engineering. Scimago classifies it as Q1 (top computer science journal).
Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani, Dejan Nickovic, and Drishti Yadav. 2022. FIM: fault injection and mutation for Simulink. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2022, Singapore, Singapore, November 14-18, 2022, Abhik Roychoudhury, Cristian Cadar, and Miryung Kim (Eds.). ACM, USA, 1716–1720. https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3558932
Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani, Dejan Nickovic, and Drishti Yadav. 2022. Search-based Testing for Accurate Fault Localization in CPS. In IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2022, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 31 – Nov. 3, 2022. IEEE, USA, 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00024
Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani, Dejan Nickovic, and Drishti Yadav. 2023. Property-Based Mutation Testing. In IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 16-20, 2023. IEEE, USA, 222–233. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST57152.2023.00029
Drishti Yadav. 2021. Blood coagulation algorithm: A novel bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for global optimization. Mathematics, 9(23), 3011. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9233011
Drishti Yadav. 2022. Criteria for good qualitative research: A comprehensive review. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 31(6), 679-689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-021-00619-0
Awards & Recognition
– Awardee of the “KUWI Grant” (2024) of the TU Wien for diploma and PhD theses and attending specialist courses abroad as part of a diploma thesis or dissertation.
– Member, TUW Under 30 (2023): Recognized by TU Wien as one of the 30 most exciting people below 30 years with exceptional achievements.
Visiting Positions
– Research Visit (February-April 2024), Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Mariani
Talks
– Seminar on “Fault diagnostics for safety-critical cyber-physical systems” at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 2024.
– PhD Forum talk on “Fault diagnostics for safety-critical cyber-physical systems”, 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2022, Vienna, Austria.
– Talk on “Fault Diagnostics for Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems” in the 2nd Short-Term Course on “Process Modeling, Simulation, Control and Optimization (PMSCO-2023)”, jointly organized by Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India.