Navid Salehnamadi
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About me
I'm Navid, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Calirofnia, Irvine working with Prof. Sam Malek. My research interests lie primarily in Software Engineering and Accessible Computing. I design and develop automated tools by leveraging program analysis and machine learning techniques to detect and fix accessibility issues in mobile apps.
For summer 2021, I am interning at Microsoft Research with Suresh Thummalapenta.
Work Experience
Microsoft Research
Research Intern
June 2021 - Present
University of California, Irvine
Graduate Research Assistant
October 2017 - Present
- Designed and created novel testing techniques to detect accessibility and delivery issues in android apps
- Devised a scalable and accurate static analysis technique to detect event races
- Investigated light-weight model checkers to formally analyze uncertainty in models
Avaye Hamrah Hooshmand Hezardastan
Software Engineer
October 2015 - August 2017
- Coordinated a number of teams (with 6 to 11 members) in CafeBazaar, a local Android app market, to create tools for developers
- Established a developers panel based on microservice architecture (using Django, Docker, and Kubernetes)
- Redesigned and developed a system to automate the process of filtering out malwares and low-quality apps
- Inspected technical teams' performance issues at a company-wide level
Publications
Published in CHI 2021, Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2021, 26% acceptance rate
Authors: Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy Branham, and Sam Malek
Published in ASE 2020, 35th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, September 2020, 23% acceptance rate
Authors: Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek
Published in ASE 2020, 35th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, September 2020, 23% acceptance rate
Authors: Jun-Wei Lin, Navid Salehnamadi, and Sam Malek
Published in MobiSys 2020, 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Aplications, and Services, June 2020
Authors: Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek
Projects
A step-by-step tutorial for Soot, a Java and Android static analysis framework
A web app designed to translate contest questions of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2017)
A simple tool emulating the black-box testing, used in the Introduction to Software Engineering course in UCI
An online contest platform applying active learning techniques for mathematic courses
A Ruby on Rails web app for students in University of Tehran to schedule their courses in the following semester