Mehdi Bagherzadeh

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering · Oakland University

Software Engineering · AI/ML · Programming Languages

csrankings.org ranks Oakland University #42 in Software Engineering

Best Paper Awards

25+

Publications

Teaching Awards/Nominations

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Distinguished Paper Award — ASE '25

Speculative Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution

Khatchadourian, Vélez, Bagherzadeh, Jia, Raja · ASE '25: 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

𝜇Akka: Mutation Testing for Actor Concurrency in Akka Using Real-World Bugs

Moghadam, Bagherzadeh, Khatchadourian, Bagheri · ESEC/FSE '23, Main Research Track

Challenges in Migrating Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution: An Empirical Study

Velez, Khatchadourian, Bagherzadeh, Raja · MSR '22 (acceptance rate 34%)

An Empirical Study of Refactorings and Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

Tang, Khatchadourian, Bagherzadeh, Singh, Stewart, Raja · ICSE '21 (23%)

Automated evolution of feature logging statement levels using Git histories and degree of interest

Tang, Spektor, Khatchadourian, Bagherzadeh · SCP '21: Science of Computer Programming Journal

Actor Concurrency Bugs in Akka: A Comprehensive Study on Symptoms, Root Causes, API Usages, and Differences

Bagherzadeh, Fireman, Shawesh, Khatchadourian · OOPSLA '20 (36%)

Best Paper Award — FASE '20

An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams

Khatchadourian, Tang, Bagherzadeh, Ray · FASE '20 (28%)

Safe Automated Refactoring for Intelligent Parallelization of Java 8 Streams

Khatchadourian, Tang, Bagherzadeh · SCP '20: Science of Computer Programming Journal

Going Big: A Large-Scale Study on What Big Data Developers Ask

Bagherzadeh, Khatchadourian · ESEC/FSE '19, Main Research Track (24%)

Safe Automated Refactoring for Intelligent Parallelization of Java 8 Streams

Khatchadourian, Tang, Bagherzadeh, Ahmed · ICSE '19 (21%)

What Do Concurrency Developers Ask About? A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow

Ahmed, Bagherzadeh · ESEM '18 (21%)

Distinguished Paper Award — SCAM '18

A Tool for Optimizing Java 8 Stream Software via Automated Refactoring

Khatchadourian, Tang, Bagherzadeh, Ahmed · SCAM '18 (53%)

Order Types: Static Reasoning about Message Races in Asynchronous Message Passing Concurrency

Bagherzadeh, Rajan · AGERE '17

Modular Reasoning in the Presence of Event Subtyping

Bagherzadeh, Dyer, Fernando, Sanchez, Rajan · TOMC '16: Transactions on Modularity and Composition (Invited paper)

On Ordering Problems in Message Passing Software

Long, Bagherzadeh, Lin, Upadhyaya, Rajan · Modularity '16

Best Papers Award — Modularity '15

Panini: A Concurrent Programming Model for Solving Pervasive and Oblivious Interference

Bagherzadeh, Rajan · Modularity '15 (48%)

Best Papers Award — Modularity '15

Modular Reasoning in the Presence of Event Subtyping

Bagherzadeh, Dyer, Fernando, Sanchez, Rajan · Modularity '15 (48%)

AspectJML: Modular Specification and Runtime Checking for Crosscutting Contracts

Rebelo, Leavens, Bagherzadeh, Rajan, Lima, Zimmerman, Cornelio, Thum · Modularity '14 (35%)

On Exceptions, Events and Observer Chains

Bagherzadeh, Rajan, Darvish · AOSD '13 (33%)

Translucid Contracts: Expressive Specification and Modular Verification for Aspect-Oriented Interfaces

Bagherzadeh, Rajan, Leavens, Mooney · AOSD '11 (24%)

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Awards & Honors

Research Awards

2025

Distinguished Paper Award

Speculative Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs · ASE '25

2020

Best Paper Award

Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams · FASE '20

2018

Distinguished Paper Award

Optimizing Java 8 Stream Software via Refactoring · SCAM '18

2015

Best Papers Award (×2)

Panini + Event Subtyping · Modularity '15

2013

Dr. Robert Stewart Early Research Recognition Award

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Iowa State University

Teaching Awards & Nominations

2023

Teaching Excellence Award Nomination

Senate Teaching & Learning Committee, Oakland University

2021

Teaching Excellence Award Nomination

Senate Teaching & Learning Committee, Oakland University

2020

Teaching Excellence Award Nomination (×2)

Senate Teaching & Learning Committee & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University

2019

Teaching Excellence Award Nomination

Senate Teaching & Learning Committee, Oakland University

2018

Teaching Excellence Award Nomination

Senate Teaching & Learning Committee, Oakland University

2015

Teaching Excellence Award

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Iowa State University

Funding

Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: A Software Refactoring Community Infrastructure

National Science Foundation (NSF) · Co-PI · Duration: 2022–2025 · Amount: $1,300,000

µNASA: Mutation Testing to Improve Correctness of Message Passing Software

Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) · PI · Duration: 2021–2022 · Amount: $10,000

Students

Current

Jihene Chouiref

Ph.D.

Alumni

Mohsen Moradi Moghadam

Ph.D. 2026

Srilakshmi Sripathi

M.Sc. 2020

Mohammed Awan

B.Sc. 2019

Benjamin Diehl

B.Sc. 2019

Syed Ahmed

B.Sc. 2017

Synergistic Activities

Organizing committee

Program committee

ICSME.DS '22 ASE.IWoR '22 SPLASH.SRC '21 ECOOP.COP '21–22 ASE.NIER '20–21 OOPSLA '20 CBSoft.SBES '17–20 SPLASH.AGERE '19 Programming '19 ESEC/FSE.WASPI '18 ICSE.WAPI '18 COMPSAC.SETA '17–18 SPLASH.REBLS '16 MODULARITY.FOAL '16 SPLASH.AE '14 CBSoft.WMod '14 CBSoft.LA-WASP '13

Panelist

DOE '21–22

Reviewer

TSE ISSE JOT TDSC EMSE JSS JSERD COMP TECS IST SCP COMLAN

External reviewer

AGERE '17 TOSEM '16 ICSE '16 MODULARITY '16 IWACO@ECOOP '16 COMLAN '15 GPCE '15 SCP '15 SPLASH/OOPSLA '12–13 AOSD '09–13 TACAS '12 VSTTE '12 TAOSD '10 SPE '10 OOPSLA '09