Afif Al Mamun

I am Afif, a PhD student at the University of Calgary, supervised by Dr. Gias Uddin and Dr. Ann Barcomb. I also serve as a Graduate Assistant in Research & Teaching at UCalgary. In parallel with my doctoral studies, I am a Mitacs Accelerate intern at IBM Canada.

My research focuses on Large Language Models for Software Engineering, with a particular emphasis on automated bug management, including bug triaging, localization, and root cause analysis. I am especially interested in building LLM-based agentic and retrieval-augmented systems that can reason over complex software artifacts and assist developers throughout the debugging lifecycle.

Before starting my PhD, I worked for several years as a Software Engineer specializing in AI, contributing to projects across different applied domains. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, for which I was awarded a gold medal in recognition of academic excellence.

Outside of my work, I enjoy the fine art of doing nothing and have a long-standing engineer’s dream of eventually retiring to a quiet village and starting a farm. :)

news

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.
Apr 16, 2026	Our paper TriagerX: Dual Transformers for Bug Triaging Tasks with Content and Interaction Based Rankings has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
Mar 12, 2026	Our paper Evaluating the Environmental Impact of using Small Language Models and Prompt Engineering for Code Generation has been accepted to EASE 2026.
Jul 14, 2025	Our paper Evaluating Deep Learning Based Domain Generalization for Motion Mitigation in Multi-Center Brain MRI has been accepted to MICCAI-RIME 2025 workshop.

selected publications

BLAgent: Agentic RAG for File-Level Bug Localization

Md Afif Al Mamun, and Gias Uddin

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

Bib

@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},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
}

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

Md Afif Al Mamun, Gias Uddin, Lan Xia, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2026

DOI Bib HTML PDF

@article{mamun2026triagerx,
  author = {Al Mamun, Md Afif 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},
}

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

Md Afif Al Mamun, Sayan Nath, Novarun Deb, and 1 more author

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

Bib HTML PDF

@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},
}

Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations

Yang Borui, Md Afif Al Mamun, Jie Zhang, and 1 more author

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},
}