Pouria Derakhshanfar, Ph.D.
Pouria Derakhshanfar, Ph.D.

Researcher

Software Engineer

Software Tester

Welcome!

Hello! I am Pouria
I lead the Software Testing Research team at JetBrains Research. I am also a track lead and industry administrator of AI4SE, a research partnership between JetBrains and Delft University of Technology.
My career goal is to combine human and artificial intelligence to implement tools and techniques to ease software development and testing tasks in industrial software projects.

My Interests
AI for Software Engineering

Application of AI algorithms to assist developers in their tasks. I am particularly interested in the techniques for easing software testing tasks (e.g., automated test generation).

Software Testing

Software testing methods and criteria for different testing levels. Methods and tools that can provide more information to users for testing their software.

Automated Generated Code Validation

Methods for validating the code generated by AI

User Experience (UX) Research

Understanding the usability and usefulness of research prototypes implemented to aid developers

Experience
Experience
2024 - Present
Team Lead
JetBrains

Software Testing Research Team

2022 - 2024
Senior Researcher
JetBrains

Intelligent Collaboration Tools Lab (ICTL)

2021 - 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
Delft University of Technology

The Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering Lab & Software Engineering Research Group

Education
2017 - 2021
Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands

Ph.D. in Computer Science

2015 - 2017
Sharif University of Technology
Tehran, Iran

MSc in Software Engineering