Hridya Dhulipala

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, advised by Dr. Tien N. Nguyen. My research focuses on AI-assisted software engineering, testing, fuzzing, web automation, and Large Language Models for improving software reliability.

I am currently working as an AI Researcher with DMI (Digital Management, LLC), where I help build NLP and LLM-based systems for automated compliance evaluation and AI-assisted code migration.

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Research Interests

  • AI-assisted Web Testing
  • LLM-based Fuzzing
  • Software Security
  • Program Analysis
  • Web Automation

Projects

CRISPE

CRISPE is a semantic-guided execution planning approach for code coverage prediction. It is one of my recent research projects and was published at FSE 2025.

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Planning to Guide LLM for Code Coverage Prediction

This project uses planning with large language models to improve code coverage prediction by guiding execution based on program semantics.

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AI-Assisted Web Testing

A research direction focused on using LLMs and automation to generate and verify web test scripts more effectively.

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • B.E. in Electronics & Communication, BMS College of Engineering

Experience

  • AI Researcher, DMI (with UTD)
  • Business Technology Analyst, Deloitte
  • Software & Intelligence Intern, Ather Energy

Skills

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • JUnit
  • Angular
  • Node.js

Contact

Email: hridya.dhulipala@utdallas.edu

GitHub: github.com/dhulipalahridya

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yourprofile