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

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.
Jun 25, 2025	I have been awarded Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship 2025 for the second time!
May 01, 2025	Our paper Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations was awarded ACM Distinguished Paper Award at FSE 2025!

selected publications

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 (TSE), 2026

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

Evaluating the Environmental Impact of using Small Language Models 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

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@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 Small Language Models 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},
}