PhD Candidate @ UniMelb

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Hi, I am Thanh Le-Cong (Lê Công Thành in Vietnamese).

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at CIS, The University of Melbourne, working with Dr. Bach Le and Prof. Toby Murray. Before joining UniMelb, I worked as a research engineer at Singapore Management University, working with Prof. David Lo. I was also an PhD intern of at Amazon Web Services and a visiting PhD student with Prof. Cristian Cadar and Prof. Michael Pradel at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.

My research aims to build trustworthy AI-powered solutions for developing reliable and secure software systems. To achieve this goal, I am mainly working on two orthogonal research directions:

Understanding and improving the trustworthiness of AI techniques for code synthesis and analysis, especially large language models for code.
Developing AI-driven techniques for automated software debugging, particularly focusing on bug detection and repair.

My research has been supported by Melbourne Research Scholarship, Google PhD Fellowship and published at premium venues of software engineering (ICSE, FSE, ASE, TOSEM, TSE) and natural language processing (ACL).

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PC Members of FORGE 2026 - SVM 2026

I’m happy to be a program committee member of The 3rd ACM international conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE 2026) and International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management (SVM 2026). Both events will be co-located with ICSE 2026. Please consider to submit your relevant works to these venues!

Sep 22, 2025

Invited Talk at SoftwareLab@CISPA

This week, I’m honored to be giving my talk ‘Beyond Accuracy: A Closer Look on the Reliability of Large Language Models for Code’ at the Software Lab at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Thank you to Professor Michael Pradel and members of Software Lab for this incredible opportunity and your generous hospitality. It’s a privilege to share my latest work and learn from yours during my visit.

Sep 2, 2025

Invited Talk at CREST@UofA

This week, I’m honored to be giving my talk ‘Toward Reliable LLM-assisted Programming’ at the ’Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide. Thank you to Professor Ali Babar, Dr. Triet Le, and the entire CREST team for this incredible opportunity and your generous hospitality. It’s a privilege to share my latest work and learn from yours during my visit.

Jun 23, 2025

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