Publications

For a full list of publications check Google Scholar and DBLP.

Published Conference Papers

• “Evaluating LLMs for One-Shot Patching of Real and Artificial Vulnerabilities.”
  Aayush Garg, Zanis Ali Khan, Renzo Degiovanni, Qiang Tang.
  ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Smarter Engineering - Building AI and Building with AI (SEAI) 2026
  Preprint

• “Evaluation of Multi-Language Vulnerability Patching with Pre-Trained Models.”
  Zanis Ali Khan, Aayush Garg, Yuejun Guo, Qiang Tang.
  ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Computer Security (SEC) 2026
  Preprint PDF

• “A Multi-Dataset Evaluation of Models for Automated Vulnerability Repair.”
  Zanis Ali Khan, Aayush Garg, Qiang Tang.
  International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Cyber and Cyber-Physical Security (AI&CCPS) ARES, 2025
  link PDF

• “On the Coupling between Vulnerabilities and LLM-generated Mutants: A Study on Vul4J dataset.”
  Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2024
  link PDF Github

• “Enabling Efficient Assertion Inference.”
  Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Facundo Molina, Mike Papadakis, Nazareno Aguirre, Maxime Cordy, Yves Le Traon.
  IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2023
  link PDF Github

• “On Comparing Mutation Testing Tools through Learning-based Mutant Selection.”
  Milos Ojdanic, Ahmed Khanfir, Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), 2023
  link PDF Github

Published Journal Papers

• “AI-Driven Software Security: Vulnerability Detection, Patching, and Anti-Fuzzing.”
  Aayush Garg, Yuejun Guo, Qiang Tang.
  The 139th European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, Special Theme: Software Security, 2024
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• “Syntactic Vs. Semantic similarity of Artificial and Real Faults in Mutation Testing Studies.”
  Milos Ojdanic, Aayush Garg, Ahmed Khanfir, Renzo Degiovanni, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Journal (TSE), 2023
  link Github

• “Learning from What We Know: How to Perform Vulnerability Prediction using Noisy Historical Data.”
  Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Matthieu Jimenez, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022
  link Github

• “Cerebro: Static subsuming mutant selection.”
  Aayush Garg, Milos Ojdanic, Renzo Degiovanni, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Mike Papadakis Yves Le Traon.
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
  link Github

Thesis

• “Guiding Quality Assurance Through Context Aware Learning.”
  Aayush Garg.
  PhD Dissertation (2023), University of Luxembourg.
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Preprints

• “A Survey of Cyber Range Training Exercise Scenario Description Generation and Execution.”
  Aayush Garg, Abdelwahab Boualouache, Adnan Imeri, Uwe Roth.
  link PDF

• “Payload Analysis of Adversaries’ Tooling: Automated Identification of Fuzzers.”
  Aayush Garg, Constantinos Patsakis, Zanis Ali Khan, Qiang Tang.
  preprint Github

• “Vulnerability Mimicking Mutants.”
  Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  link PDF GitHub

• “Learning to predict vulnerabilities from vulnerability-fixes: A machine translation approach.”
  Aayush Garg, Renzo Degiovanni, Matthieu Jimenez, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon.
  link PDF