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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 have US work authorization
Interests
  • Software Engineering
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Model (LLM)
Education

  • PhD candidate in CS, 2018 - 2024 (expected)

    George Mason University

  • MS in CS, 2023

    George Mason University

  • BS in CS, 2007

    Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh

Tech Skills

  • Languages: Python, Javascript, Java, C
  • Frameworks / Libraries: Node.js, Express.js, REST API, PyTorch, OpenCV, NumPy, spaCy, Socket.IO
  • Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQLite
  • Tools / Platforms: Git, Docker, AWS, Hugging Face

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research Assistant
SAGE Lab
May 2021 – Present GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Currently developing a multimodal model (vision-code-language) for code summarization.
  • Fine-tuning and applying large language models (LLMs) for software engineering tasks.
  • Designed and developed AidUI, an automated approach to detect deceptive UI designs.
  • Co-contributor of MotorEase, an approach to detect motor-impairment accessibility violations in apps.
  • Co-contributor of GUIEvo, an approach to update UI code by detecting changes between existing and proposed designs.
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science
Aug 2018 – May 2021 GMU, Virginia, USA
  • Mentored CS undergrad students for the “Database Systems”, “Introduction to Computer Programming” and “Computer Vision” courses.
  • Assisted the course instructor to grade assignments and projects. Proctored exams and resolved student concerns.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Ice9 Interactive
Apr 2017 – Jul 2018 Bangladesh
  • Core engineering team member to develop social media query and analytics platforms of project ‘smashboard.co’.
  • Optimized database and implemented master-replica architecture to resolve the sync delay of real time queries.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Synchronous ICT
Feb 2015 – Apr 2017 Bangladesh
  • Lead the engineering team to develop user management and search platforms of in-house project ‘ComX’.
  • 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 native Android application ‘HE Business Manager’.
  • Collaborated with the server-side team to design the database & the APIs.
 
 
 
 
 
Student Intern
Daimler AG
Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 Ulm, Germany
  • Developed a key-value pair parser for environment perception data.
 
 
 
 
 
System Engineer
Grameenphone Ltd
Jul 2007 – Feb 2011 Bangladesh
  • Member of the transmission optimization team to serve over 20 million 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.

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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Projects

MotorEase
SAGE Lab | Co-contributor | https://github.com/SageSELab/MotorEase May 2022 – May 2023
A novel automated approach to detect motor-impairment accessibility violations in apps.
AidUI
SAGE Lab | Principal contributor | https://github.com/SageSELab/AidUI Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
A novel automated approach to detect deceptive UI designs, aka Dark Patterns.
Drishtipat
Personal Open Source | Principal contributor | https://github.com/hasanmansur/Drishtipat Feb 2020 – Aug 2020
Implementation of different Computer Vision concepts.
Ontorjal
Personal Open Source | Principal contributor | https://github.com/hasanmansur/Ontorjal Feb 2020 – Aug 2020
Implementation of DNS client & Distance Vector Routing protocol.
smashboard.co
Ice9.co | Co-contributor | smashboard.co Apr 2017 – Jul 2018
A CRM platform for social media query management and analytics.
HE Business Manager
DCastalia | Principal contributor Aug 2013 – Jan 2015
A native Android app for inventory management of healthcare products.
KVP Reader
Daimler AG, Germany | Principal contributor Oct 2012 – Jul 2013
A parser that converts the key-value pair input stream (environment perception data) into a canonical format.

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