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  • PhD candidate in Computer Science at George Mason University
  • Working at SAGE lab led by Dr. Kevin Moran
  • Research focus Automated Software Engineering via Multimodal Machine Learning
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Publication track record in top-tier SWE venues
  • Open to relocation and no sponsorship required (I-140 approved)
Interests
  • Software Engineering
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Model (LLM)
Education

  • PhD candidate in CS, 2018 - 2025 (expected)

    George Mason University

  • MS in CS, 2023

    George Mason University

  • BS in CS, 2007

    Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh

Tech Skills

  • Programming: Python, Javascript, Java, C
  • Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQLite
  • Libraries: OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Socket.IO
  • ML/DL/NLP: Transformer, LLM finetuning, PyTorch, Hugging Face, scikit‐learn, spaCy
  • Backend/Cloud/DevOps: Node.js, Express.js, REST API, AWS, Docker, Git

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science
Aug 2024 – Present GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Mentored students, graded assignments, and proctored exams.
  • Course: Formal Methods.
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research Assistant
SAGE Lab
May 2021 – Aug 2024 GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Areas of Contribution: Ethical Software Design, Software Evolution, Software Accessibility and Software Documentation.
  • Currently leading a research project aimed toward developing a multimodal model (vision‑code‑comment) for code summarization.
  • Designed and developed AidUI, an automated approach to detect and localize deceptive design patterns on UIs.
  • Co‑contributor of MotorEase, an approach to detect motor‑impairment accessibility violations in app UIs.
  • Co‑contributor of GUIEvo, an approach to update UI code by detecting changes between existing and proposed designs.
  • Collaborated in developing datasets to serve as benchmarks for Bug Reporting and Bug Localization.
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science
Aug 2018 – May 2021 GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Mentored students, graded assignments, and proctored exams.
  • Courses: Python Programming, Database, Computer Vision.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Ice9 Ltd.
Apr 2017 – Jul 2018 Bangladesh
  • Member of the core engineering team responsible for the development and maintenance of SMASHBOARD.CO, a social CRM product.
  • Collaborated with the Technical Lead on strategic planning and decision‑making for architecture design, development, testing and deployment.
  • Lead the development and integration of social media query management and analytics module for INSTAGRAM.
  • Optimized database and implemented master‑replica architecture to resolve the sync delay of real time social queries.
  • Collaborated in implementing the migration of the core product from Rackspace to AWS.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Synchronous ICT
Feb 2015 – Apr 2017 Bangladesh
  • Lead the team to develop user management, search and notification platforms of project COMX, an in‑house application framework.
  • Assessed the capacity to deliver, formed sprints and released duration based development milestones.
  • Established standard software engineering practices like version controlling, issue & project tracking.
  • Documented technical specifications & maintained all reports pertaining to the development process.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Dcastalia
Aug 2013 – Jan 2015 Bangladesh
  • Developed and published HE BUSINESS MANAGER, a native Android app for inventory management of healthcare products.
  • Collaborated with the backend team on requirements analysis, architecture design, development, testing and deployment.
 
 
 
 
 
Student Intern
Mercedes‑Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG)
Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 Ulm, Germany
  • Developed a KVP (key‑value pair) parser to convert the unstructured stream of environment perception data into a canonical form.
 
 
 
 
 
System Engineer
Grameenphone Ltd
Jul 2007 – Feb 2011 Bangladesh
  • Member of the transmission network configuration and optimization team to serve over 20 million mobile users.
  • Analysed detected alarms, classified probable causes, and fixed or escalated issues to the concerned stakeholders.

Publications

Sabiha Salma, S M Hasan Mansur, Kevin Moran, Yule Zhang (2023). GUIEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile Application GUIs from Mockups. In The 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 15th-16th, 2024.

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Arun Krishnavajjala, S M Hasan Mansur, Justin Jose, Kevin Moran (2023). MotorEase: Automated Detection of Motor Impairment Accessibility Issues in Mobile App UIs. In The 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14th-20th, 2024.

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Junayed Mahmud, Nadeeshan De Silva, Safwat Ali Khan, Seyed Hooman Mostafavi, S M Hasan Mansur, Oscar Chaparro, Andrian (Andi) Marcus, Kevin Moran (2023). On Using GUI Interaction Data to Improve Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization. In The 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14th-20th, 2024.

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S M Hasan Mansur, Kevin Moran (2023). Toward Automated Tools to Support Ethical GUI Design. In The 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion), Melbourne, Australia, May 14th-20th, 2023.

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S M Hasan Mansur, Sabiha Salma, Damilola Awofisayo, Kevin Moran (2022). AidUI: Toward Automated Recognition of Dark Patterns in User Interfaces. In The 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), Melbourne, Australia, May 14th-20th, 2023.

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Tyler Wendland, Jingyang Sun, Junayed Mahmud, S M Hasan Mansur, Steven Huang, Kevin Moran, Julia Rubin, Mattia Fazzini (2021). AndroR2: A Dataset of Manually Reproduced Bug Reports for Android Applications. In 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'21), Data Showcase Track, Virtual (originally Madrid, Spain), May 17th - 19th, 2021.

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Selected Research

 
 
 
 
 
AidUI
Principal Contributor | SAGE LAB, UCF
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 Published in ICSE'23
  • paper link, project repo
  • AidUI is an automated approach to detect and localize deceptive design patterns on UIs.
  • Developed a unified taxonomy and a set of heuristic rules to detect visual‑textual cues that signify the presence of deceptive UI design patterns.
  • Automated the data pipeline to extract UIs from publicly available app usage videos and screenshots by prior studies.
  • Designed and developed an approach that leverages computer vision and NLP techniques to detect different deceptive patterns on UI.
  • Implemented an automated evaluation pipeline. Dockerized and published research artifacts in a public repository.
 
 
 
 
 
MotorEase
Co-Contributor | SAGE LAB, UCF
May 2022 – May 2023 Published in ICSE'24
  • paper link, project repo
  • MotorEase is an approach to detect motor‑impairment accessibility violations in app UIs.
  • Developed the initial prototype of the “Semantic Text Matching” component of the automated approach.
  • Collaborated with the lead contributor on labeling and curation of the dataset.

Selected Open Source Projects

Drishtipat
Personal Open Source | https://github.com/hasanmansur/Drishtipat Aug 2020
Implementation of different concepts/topics of Computer Vision.
Ontorjal
Personal Open Source | https://github.com/hasanmansur/Ontorjal Aug 2020
Implementation of DNS client & Distance Vector Routing protocol.
Tasky
Personal Open Source | https://github.com/hasanmansur/Tasky May 2017
A backend boilerplate featuring Role Based Access Control, Searching, Token Authentication, TDD.

Awards

NSF Travel Award for ICSE'23
The National Science Foundation, USA Apr 2023
Best Poster Presentation Award
CS Research Symposium 2022, George Mason University May 2022
Summer Research Initiation Award
Dept. of Computer Science, George Mason University May 2019 – Aug 2019
National Education Board Scholarship
Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination, National Education Board of Bangladesh Sep 2001
National Education Board Scholarship
Secondary School Certificate Examination, National Education Board of Bangladesh Sep 1999

Professional Services

  • Junior PC Member:
    • International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2024
  • Co-Reviewer:
    • International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2022
  • External Reviewer:
    • International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023, 2021
    • International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2023, 2022
    • International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2022
    • International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2021
    • International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2021

Volunteering

 
 
 
 
 
Co Mentor at Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program
George Mason University
May 2022 – Aug 2022 GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Mentored one high school intern in dataset preparation for the software accessibility project
 
 
 
 
 
Director, Web Services
Bangladeshi Graduate Students Association (BDGSA), GMU
May 2021 – May 2022 GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Acted as a member of the admin panel to maintain BDGSA’s social media platform
  • Actively participated in arranging various social events
 
 
 
 
 
General Member
KIN, Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology
May 2002 – Apr 2007 Bangladesh
  • Arranged several campaigns to collect & distribute winter clothes among homeless & poor people. Volunteered in free blood donation programs

Contact

  • smhasanmansur@gmail.com, smansur4@gmu.edu