Afif Al Mamun

I’m Afif, a PhD student at the University of Calgary researching how AI agents can become better teammates for developers by helping them find, understand, and fix software bugs.

My work focuses on automating software bug management, spanning bug triaging, localization, and root cause analysis through intelligent LLM-based agents. Alongside my research, I collaborate with IBM Canada through Mitacs and contribute to the software engineering community through peer review for journals including TOSEM and EMSE.

Before my PhD, I built AI systems as a Software Engineer. When I’m away from the keyboard, I enjoy the fine art of doing absolutely nothing, and occasionally imagining life on a farm where the only bugs are biological. :)

news

Jul 28, 2026	Our paper “Impossible to hide secret ...”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-native IDEs has been accepted to ASE 2026.
Jul 08, 2026	Received the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) – International for the third time!
Jun 26, 2026	BLAgent: Agentic RAG for File-Level Bug Localization — Accepted to the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) Special Issue on Agentic AI
May 14, 2026	Our work BLAgent was presented as a Power Pitch at ESE Research Days 2026, University of Calgary
May 12, 2026	I will be serving as a Web Co-Chair for ICSME 2027, which will be hosted at York University in Ontario, Canada.

selected publications

ASE

C“Impossible to hide secret ...”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-native IDEs

Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Md Afif Al Mamun, Gias Uddin, and Song Wang

In The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Munich, Germany, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{akhond2026uncovering,
  author = {Akhond, Mostafijur Rahman and Mamun, Md Afif Al and Uddin, Gias and Wang, Song},
  booktitle = {The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},
  title = {{``Impossible to hide secret ...'': Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in {LLM}-native {IDE}s}},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {},
  location = {Munich, Germany},
}

TOSEM

JBLAgent: Agentic RAG for File-Level Bug Localization

Md Afif Al Mamun, and Gias Uddin

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

DOI Bib PDF

@article{mamun2026blagent,
  author = {Mamun, Md Afif Al and Uddin, Gias},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
  title = {BLAgent: Agentic RAG for File-Level Bug Localization},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3830238},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
}

TSE

JTriagerX: Dual Transformers for Bug Triaging Tasks with Content and Interaction Based Rankings

Md Afif Al Mamun, Gias Uddin, Lan Xia, and Longyu Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2026

DOI Bib HTML PDF

@article{mamun2026triagerx,
  author = {Mamun, Md Afif Al and Uddin, Gias and Xia, Lan and Zhang, Longyu},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  title = {TriagerX: Dual Transformers for Bug Triaging Tasks with Content and Interaction Based Rankings},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-16},
  doi = {10.1109/TSE.2026.3685573},
}

EASE

CEvaluating the Environmental Impact of using SLMs and Prompt Engineering for Code Generation

Md Afif Al Mamun, Sayan Nath, Novarun Deb, and Gias Uddin

In The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Glasgow, Scotland, 2026

Bib HTML PDF Slides

@inproceedings{mamun2026evaluating,
  author = {Mamun, Md Afif Al and Nath, Sayan and Deb, Novarun and Uddin, Gias},
  booktitle = {The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)},
  title = {Evaluating the Environmental Impact of using SLMs and Prompt Engineering for Code Generation},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  location = {Glasgow, Scotland},
}

FSE

CHallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations

Yang Borui, Md Afif Al Mamun, Jie Zhang, and Gias Uddin

In The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Trondheim, Norway, 2025

Distinguished Paper Award DOI Bib HTML PDF

The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

@inproceedings{borui2025hallucination,
  author = {Borui, Yang and Mamun, Md Afif Al and Zhang, Jie and Uddin, Gias},
  booktitle = {The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)},
  title = {Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  location = {Trondheim, Norway},
  pages = {1-6},
  doi = {10.1145/3715735},
}