Professor Chengnian Sun and his collaborators Vu Le and Zhendong Su have received the Most Influential Paper Award at OOPSLA 2025, part of the ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH conference. Their paper, Finding Deep Compiler Bugs via Guided Stochastic Program Mutation, presented originally at OOPSLA 2015, was recognized for introducing a novel Equivalence Modulo Inputs mutation strategy that exposed previously undetected bugs in production compilers.
The research was conducted when Professor Sun was a postdoctoral researcher and Vu Le a PhD student, both advised by Professor Su at the University of California, Davis. The award recognizes a paper from ten years earlier that has made a lasting impact on the field of programming languages.
Read the full article from the Computer Science website to learn more.