Shaurya Gomber

CS PhD student @ UIUC

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Room 2107
Siebel Center for Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

I am a 2nd year CS PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) working with Prof. Gagandeep Singh. I am broadly interested in formal methods and programming languages. Currently, I am working on making abstract interpretation-based program analysis more efficient and adaptable across diverse analysis scenarios by leveraging symbolic reasoning and learning-based techniques. I am also interested in automated reasoning tools such as SAT and SMT solvers, and the analysis and use of neuro-symbolic systems.

Prior to starting PhD, I completed an MS in Computer Science at UIUC (2022–2024), advised by Prof. Gagandeep Singh. My thesis, Neural Abstract Interpretation, received the David J. Kuck Outstanding MS Thesis Award. I hold a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Guwahati, and have previously worked at D. E. Shaw & Co. (2020-2022) and the Automated Reasoning Group at AWS (Zelkova team, Summer 2023).

News

Apr 02, 2026 Our work AbsEvolve on evolving abstract transformers which enable gradient-guided and adaptable abstract interpretation, has been accepted at PLDI’26! Will be in Boulder, CO in June to present!
Mar 01, 2026 Our work Maestro, which presents a unified formalism for LLM-based theorem provers, has been accepted at the VerifAI workshop, ICLR’26!
Jan 12, 2026 Will be the Teaching Assistant for CS477: Formal Software Development Methods this semester.
Dec 22, 2025 Our work Syndicate on efficient ranking function-based termination analysis using bidirectional search has been accepted at ESOP’26!
Oct 08, 2025 Passed my PhD Oral Qualifying Exam (Area: PL/FM/SE)!
Jul 15, 2025 Preprint of our latest work on tunable abstract transformers is now available on arXiv.
Mar 05, 2025 Work on Neural Abstract Interpretation accepted at VerifAI@ICLR 2025!
Jan 16, 2025 Honored that my MS Thesis has won the 2024 David J. Kuck Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award!
Jan 08, 2025 Will be a part of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for PLDI ‘25.
Aug 28, 2024 Honored to be named the recipient of the 2024-2025 Richard T. Cheng Endowed Fellowship!
Aug 26, 2024 Started my PhD at UIUC!
May 10, 2024 Graduated with an MS degree in Computer Science from UIUC.
May 01, 2024 Work on Neural Abstract Interpretation accepted at SRC@PLDI 2024!
Jan 15, 2024 Will be a part of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for PLDI ‘24.
Aug 16, 2023 Started working as a Teaching Assistant for CS421: Programming Languages & Compilers (Fall 2023)
May 30, 2023 Joined the Zelkova team (Automated Reasoning Group @ AWS) as an Applied Science Intern!
Jan 17, 2023 Started working as a Teaching Assistant for CS421 Programming Languages & Compilers (Spring 2023)
Aug 22, 2022 Started working as a Teaching Assistant for CS225 Data Structures (Fall 2022)
Aug 15, 2022 Joined the MS CS program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign!
Dec 27, 2021 Promoted to Software Engineer 2 at D. E. Shaw & Co.
Jun 22, 2020 Joined the Trading Systems team at D. E. Shaw & Co as a Software Engineer.
May 18, 2020 Graduated with B. Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Guwahati.


Affiliations & Internships

               
IIT Guwahati
2016-2020
B. Tech Computer Science
D. E. Shaw & Co.
Summer 2019 & 2020-2022
SDE Intern & SDE-2 (Trading Systems)
Amazon Science
Summer 2023
Applied Science Intern
Automated Reasoning @ AWS
UIUC
2022-Present
MS & PhD Computer Science