Waris Gill

I am a 4th year Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, specializing in Software Engineering and Machine Learning. My research has been published in ICSE, the prestigious venue in the field of software engineering.

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Dec 04, 2023 Presented our paper, FedDefender, during the SE4SafeML event at FSE-2023 in San Francisco, California.
Sep 20, 2023 My work at Cisco got open-sourced (Link).
May 22, 2023 I started working at Cisco with Shannon and Pallavi.
May 14, 2023 I recieved National Science Foundation (NSF) award to present our paper, FedDebug, at ICSE-2023 in Melbourne, Australia.

selected publications

  1. TraceFL: Interpretability-Driven Debugging in Federated Learning via Neuron Provenance
    Waris Gill, Ali Anwar, and Muhammad Ali Gulzar
    In 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
  2. MeanCache: User-Centric Semantic Cache for Large Language Model Based Web Services
    Waris Gill, Mohamed Elidrisi, Pallavi Kalapatapu, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02694, 2024
  3. FedDebug: Systematic Debugging for Federated Learning Applications
    Waris Gill, Ali Anwar, and Muhammad Ali Gulzar
    In 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
  4. FedDefender: Backdoor Attack Defense in Federated Learning
    Waris Gill, Ali Anwar, and Muhammad Ali Gulzar
    In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components, , San Francisco, CA, USA, , 2023