Columbia University · Department of Computer Science

ARiSE Lab

AI for Reliable and Intelligent Software Engineering

Led by Prof. Baishakhi Ray at Columbia University, our group conducts research at the intersection of AI and Software Engineering, with a particular focus on AI for Code. We explore how neurosymbolic techniques, blending the power of machine learning with the rigor of formal reasoning, can transform software reliability, security, and developer productivity. Through building new language models, agents, and new abstractions, we aim to make code not just easier to write, but easier to trust. Prof. Ray also serves as an Amazon Scholar, collaborating with the Amazon Agentic AI team.

Making your Code Smarter, Safer, and More Collaborative — with AI

News

Simin Chen accepted a tenure-track faculty offer at George Mason University. Congrats!

Your Compiler is Backdooring Your Model received a Distinguished Paper Award at S&P (Oakland) '26. Congrats!

Chenxi Huang named Gold Reviewer at ICML '26. Congrats!

Outrunning LLM Cutoffs was accepted to ICML '26.

Understanding APR Agents Through the Lens of Traceability was accepted to ISSTA '26.

Organized AI for Code industry roundtable.

ICLR'26: Two papers are in.

PhD student Yangruibo Ding accepted a tenure-track faculty offer at UCLA. Congrats!!

Selected Publications

Awards

Honors

  • IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award
  • Most Influential Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2023
  • VMware Early Career Faculty Award, 2020
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2019
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2019

Paper Recognition

  • Distinguished Paper Award, S&P (Oakland) 2026
  • NAACL 2025 (Oral)
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA 2023
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2023
  • CoRL (Oral Presentation), 2023
  • EAPLS (European Association of Programming Languages and Systems) FASE Best Paper Award, 2020
  • ACM Distinguished Paper Award, FSE 2017
  • ACM Distinguished Paper Award, MSR 2017
  • Best Student Paper Award, S&P (Oakland) 2014

Funding

  • Govt. Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Corporate Funding: Google, IBM, Amazon, Capital One, RedHat
  • Provost's Grants Program for Junior Faculty

Our Team

Baishakhi Ray

Baishakhi Ray

Associate Professor Lab Director Website
Simin Chen

Simin Chen

Postdoc Website
Alex Mathai

Alex Mathai

PhD Student Website
Chenxi Huang

Chenxi Huang

PhD Student Website
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Hailie Mitchell

PhD Student Website
Ira Ceka

Ira Ceka

PhD Student Website
Jinjun Peng

Jinjun Peng

PhD Student Website
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Nikolaus Holzer

PhD Student Website
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Daniel Ben-Levi

Student Website
H

Hongyuan Kang

Student Website
In Keun Kim

In Keun Kim

MS Student Website
Magnus Saebo

Magnus Saebo

MS Student Website
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Nihal Singh

Student Website
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Song Li

Student Website
Shobini Iyer

Shobini Iyer

Undergraduate Website
Tianjun Zhong

Tianjun Zhong

MS Student Website

Alumni

Yangruibo Ding

Yangruibo Ding

Assistant Professor of Computer Science UCLA (First Position) Website
Vikram Nitin

Vikram Nitin

Research Staff Microsoft Research (First Position) Website
Kexin Pei

Kexin Pei

Assistant Professor U Chicago (First Position) Website
Dongdong She

Dongdong She

Assistant Professor Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (First Position) Website
Ziyuan Zhong

Ziyuan Zhong

Quantitative Researcher Squarepoint (First Position) Website
Saikat Chakraborty

Saikat Chakraborty

Senior Research Scientist Microsoft Research (First Position) Website
Yuchi Tian

Yuchi Tian

Research Scientist Facebook (First Position) Website
Rahul Krishna

Rahul Krishna

Research Staff Member IBM Research (First Position) Website
Chong Tang

Chong Tang

Senior Software Engineer Walmart Labs (First Position) Website

Join Us

We're always looking for motivated students and researchers to join our group. If you're interested in AI for Software Engineering, reach out at ariselab2020@gmail.com. You can also explore our active research areas to learn more about what we work on.