Imam Nur Bani Yusuf | National University of Singapore

About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at SPARTAN, National University of Singapore, advised by Professor Abhik Roychoudhury. My research focuses on building capable, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems for software engineering using program analysis techniques.

I received my PhD from Singapore Management University under the mentorship of Professor Lingxiao Jiang and Professor David Lo.

Research Interests

Novel LLM scaffolding for domain-specific tasks: I develop task-specific scaffolding to combine LLMs with other techniques for specialized settings. This includes techniques such as retrieval (MSR 2023; ASE 2023) and program analysis (TSE; ICECCS 2025).
Evaluation of LLMs and coding agents: I view evaluation as a foundation for progress in this field. My work focuses on two complementary dimensions: efficacy, which measures performance on realistic software engineering tasks (BigCodeBench); and trustworthiness, which measures how explainable, reliable, and dependable model predictions are in practice (TSE).
Empirical studies of LLM behavior: I conduct empirical analyses to better understand where current approaches succeed, where they fail, and what design choices improve performance and reliability in practice (EMSE submission; arXiv 2024).

News

Nov 2025: I gave a guest lecture at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. The recording in Bahasa Indonesia is available here.
Apr 2025: Paper on C-to-Rust translation was accepted at ICECCS 2025
Jan 2025: BigCodeBench was accepted at ICLR 2025

Publications

Deep Learning-Based Automatic Semantic Patch Generation for the Linux Kernel: How Far Are We?

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Xiping Huang, Julia Lawall, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo, Nghi D. Q. Bui, Chunmiao Li, Haitao Wu, Yijun Yu

Under Submission

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Dual Learning of Code Transformation Patterns from Demonstrations with Generation-Discrimination Objectives

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

Under Submission

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Transducer Tuning: Efficient Model Adaptation for Software Tasks Using Code Property Graphs

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

Under Submission

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RustMap: Towards Project-Scale C-to-Rust Migration via LLM and Program Analysis

Xuemeng Cai, Jiakun Liu, Xiping Huang, Yijun Yu, Haitao Wu, Chunmiao Li, Bo Wang, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

29th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2025)

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Isolating Compiler Bugs by Generating Effective Witness Programs With Large Language Models

Haoxin Tu, Zhide Zhou, He Jiang, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Yuxian Li, Lingxiao Jiang

Transactions on Software Engineering

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BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions

Terry Yue Zhuo, Vu Minh Chien, Jenny Chim, Han Hu, Wenhao Yu, Ratnadira Widyasari, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Haolan Zhan, Junda He, Indraneil Paul, Simon Brunner, Chen GONG, James Hoang, Armel Randy Zebaze, Xiaoheng Hong, Wen-Ding Li, Jean Kaddour, Ming Xu, Zhihan Zhang, Prateek Yadav et al.

13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

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Your Instructions Are Not Always Helpful: Assessing the Efficacy of Instruction Fine-tuning for Software Vulnerability Detection

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

arXiv 2024

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ArduinoProg: Towards Automating Arduino Programming

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang

38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023)

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Towards Automated Embedded Systems Programming

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf

45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023 Doctoral Symposium)

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Automating Arduino Programming: From Hardware Setups to Sample Source Code Generation

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023)

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RecipeGen++: an automated trigger action programs generator

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo

30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022)

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Accurate generation of trigger-action programs with domain-adapted sequence-to-sequence learning

Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo

30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2022)

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BiasFinder: Metamorphic Test Generation to Uncover Bias for Sentiment Analysis Systems

Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi, Zhou Yang, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, David Lo

Transactions on Software Engineering

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Service & Teaching

Volunteering

Student Volunteer — ICLR 2025, WWW 2024, ICSE 2023

Teaching (Singapore Management University)

Senior TA, CS708 Mobile and Distributed Systems — Jan 2025–Present
Senior TA, IS453 Financial Analytics — Jan 2025–Present
Senior TA, CS462 / IS614 Internet of Things — Aug–Dec 2024
Senior TA, CS422 Reasoning, Planning, and Learning under Uncertainty — Aug–Dec 2023
Senior TA, IS787 Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems 2 — Jan–May 2023

Earlier Teaching (Institut Teknologi Bandung)

Head of Embedded System Assistants — Jan–May 2019
Teaching Assistant, Digital System Design — Aug–Dec 2018

Experience

Research Intern · National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Jul–Aug 2019 · Taiwan
Investigated Software-Defined Base Station architectures under the supervision of Professor Ray-Guang Cheng.

IoT Engineer Intern · PT Lentera Bumi Nusantara May–Aug 2018 · Indonesia
Contributed to IoT systems engineering and deployment in an industry setting.

Leadership & Organizations

Head of Project Management Division · Telecommunication Engineering Student Association, ITB Feb 2018–Feb 2019

Team Captain & Manager · Firefighting Robotics Team, ITB Aug 2017–Aug 2018
Led the team in design, coordination, and competition strategy for autonomous firefighting robots.