Research

The SOLAR group is based at University College London ( Department of Computer Science, CREST) and is led by Prof. Federica Sarro.

Our research pushes the boundaries of automated approaches in Software Engineering, especially in the areas of software development, testing, repair, optimisation and analytics.

Our group has strong expertise in empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, software analytics, software fairness, genetic improvement of software, software testing and repair, project managment, machine learning for software engineering, software engineering for machine learning.

We have obtained several international awards and generous funding for our research, and have also collaborated with both large software companies, including Facebook and Google, and start-ups.

We promote and embrace open science by sharing whenever possible the artefacts accompaying our research papers and our talks.