Moshood A. Fakorede | Louisiana State University

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Louisiana State University, where I work as a Graduate Research Assistant advised by Dr. Umar Farooq. My research is driven by a core goal: improving the reliability of software in emerging computing environments.

I study reliability challenges in mobile, quantum, and AI-assisted software systems, with an emphasis on identifying and mitigating systemic failures in complex and safety-critical applications. By combining techniques from program analysis and automated software testing, I develop frameworks for detecting platform-specific violations in Android Auto applications, benchmarking and evaluating LLM-driven software development, and investigating bug patterns in quantum simulators. My broader objective is to develop automated tooling and empirical foundations that improve the dependability, robustness, and trustworthiness of modern software systems.

Research Interests

Software Reliability & Verification: Investigating failure mechanisms in emerging software domains and developing automated techniques to detect, prevent, and mitigate defects in safety-critical systems.
Static & Hybrid Program Analysis: Utilizing frameworks such as FlowDroid, Soot, and SootUp to analyze Android and JVM applications, detect platform-specific violations, and ensure architectural reliability and correctness.
AI4SE & Trustworthy AI: Developing benchmarks and automated evaluation pipelines to measure the correctness, robustness, and reliability of AI-assisted software engineering systems.

News

[Apr. 2026] Serving on the Artifact Evaluation PC for CAIS 2026.
[Apr. 2026] Inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.
[Apr. 2026] Presented our work at AST 2026, co-located with ICSE 2026.
[Mar. 2026] Invited to join The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
[Mar. 2026] MobileDev-Bench — a benchmark to evaluate LLMs on Mobile Application Development — is now on arXiv.
[Mar. 2026] Understanding Bugs in Quantum Simulators is now on arXiv.
[Feb. 2026] Recognized with the Excellence in Computer Science Research award from the AIR Program at LSU.
[Feb. 2026] Serving on the Artifact Evaluation PC for MobiSys 2026, WWW 2026, and PETS 2026.
[Jan. 2026] Paper accepted at AST 2026 — “Understanding and Detecting Platform-Specific Violations in Android Auto Apps”.
[Mar. 2025] Understanding and Detecting Platform-Specific Violations in Android Auto Apps is now on arXiv.

Publications

AST 2026

Understanding and Detecting Platform-Specific Violations in Android Auto Apps

Moshood A. Fakorede, Umar Farooq

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), 2026

PDF DOI Code Video BibTex Oral Presentation

arXiv

MobileDev-Bench: A Benchmark for Issue Resolution in Mobile Application Development

Moshood A. Fakorede, Krishna Upadhyay, A.B. Siddique, Umar Farooq

PDF Code Dataset BibTex Under Review

arXiv

Understanding Bugs in Quantum Simulators: An Empirical Study

Krishna Upadhyay, Moshood Fakorede, Umar Farooq

PDF BibTex Under Review

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Louisiana State University, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSC 3380: Object Oriented Design — Spring 2024, Spring 2025
CSC 4101: Programming Languages — Fall 2024, Fall 2025

Services

Artifact Evaluation PC

The ACM Web Conference (WWW)
ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS)
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)

Academic Volunteering

Judge, LSU Discover Day Undergraduate Research & Creativity Conference, Louisiana State University, 2026