Dr. Ezekiel Soremekun

Dr. Ezekiel Soremekun

Asst. Prof. at SUTD, Singapore.

About me

  • Ezekiel Soremekun is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.

  • He leads the Trustworthy SoftWare & AI (TrustWare) research group at SUTD.

  • We are looking for strong, motivated researchers at all levels (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD) to join our research group, the TrustWare Group at SUTD. Research positions include PhD, MEng, and Visiting students (iUROP and interns), Student assistants and research assistants. If you wish to join our group, contact Ezekiel via email.

News

  • [2027] Invited to serve on the PC of ESEC/FSE 2027 (Core A*), and ICSE 2027 (Core A*).

  • [2026] Invited to serve on the PC of ESEC/FSE 2026 (Core A*), ASE 2026 (Core A*), ISSTA 2026 (Core A) & SANER 2026 (Core A).

  • [Sep. ‘26] Our paper on “automated consistency testing of Code LLMs” is accepted at EMNLP 2026 (Core A*).
  • [July ‘26] Our paper on “automated discovery of hidden intersectional bias in LLMs” is accepted at ISSRE 2026 (Core A).

  • [July ‘26] Our work on “directed grammar-based fuzzing” (TSE25) is accepted and presented at FSE 2027 (Core A*) Journal-First Track .

  • [Nov. ‘25] Our paper on “directed grammar-based fuzzing” is accepted at TSE 2025 (TSE25) (Core A*).
  • [Oct. ‘25] Awarded an SUTD-SMU grant (250K SGD) on “Agentic Legacy System Evolution” (as Joint PI with Prof. Christoph Treude).
  • [Jul. ‘25] Our survey on “software fairness” is accepted at ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2025 (CSUR25) (Core A*).
  • [Jul. ‘25] Our paper on “automated input repair without specifications” is accepted at ISSRE 2025 (ISSRE25) (Core A).
  • [Jan. ‘25] Our paper on “end-user security of smart contracts” is accepted at CHI 2025 (CHI25) (Core A*).
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  • [2025] Co-chaired the Tool Demonstration Track of ISSTA 2025 with Jeongju Sohn (Core A).
  • [2025] Honored to serve on the PC of ICSE 2025 (Core A*), SANER 2025 (Core A) & ICST 2025 (Core A).
  • [May '25] Awarded a TL@SUTD grant (100K SGD) on ML supply chain security (as PI).
  • [Apr. '25] Honored to receive the Distinguished Reviewer Award, ICSE 2025 (Core A*).
  • [Apr. '25] Honored to be awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 (SKI) grant (100K SGD) on Grammar-based Test Generation (as PI).
  • [2024] Served on the PC of ICSE 2024 (Core A*), ASE 2024 (Core A*), ISSTA 2024 (Core A) & SANER 2024 (Core A).
  • [2024] Honored to join the ACM TOSEM Board of Distinguished Reviewers (Core A*).
  • [2024] Our paper on "consistency testing of LLMs" is accepted at EMNLP24 (Core A*).
  • [2024] Our work on "distribution-aware fairness testing" is accepted at JSS 2024 (Core A).

TrustWare Research Team

Research Focus

Our research focus is the analysis, testing and mitigation of failures in AI systems (e.g., Code LLMs/Agents) and Software Systems. This includes functional properties (e.g., correctness) and non-functional properties (e.g., security, safety, robustness, and fairness) of AI systems and traditional software systems.

Recent or ongoing works in Trustworthy Software and Trustrworthy AI include the following:

Trustworthy AI

  • Security and Safety of LLMs: security attacks and defense for Code LLMs (e.g., backdoors Akrasia)
  • Consistency Testing of LLMs: automated testing of code and natural-language consistency/robustness of LLMs (e.g., MuCoCo and KonTest)
  • Fairness Testing of LLMs: e.g., exposing hidden intersectional bias in LLMs (HInter)
  • System security of ML Models: detecting and exposing malicious attacks on ML models and Model hubs, (e.g., ShadowPickle, DynaHug)

Trustworthy Software

  • Grammar-based Testing and Debugging: E.g., evolutionary grammar-based testing (FdLoop)
  • Usability and Security of Smart Contracts: E.g., end-user security of smart contracts (CHI25)

People

PhD Students

Research Assistants (RAs)

Student Assistants (SAs)

  • Bob Meher, BEng CSD SUTD (expected 2027): Sep. 2026 - present

Visiting Students

Alumni (RA)

  • CHUA Jin Chou, BEng ESD SUTD (2025): 2025 - 2026 (now with Discovermarket Asia Pte. Ltd.)
  • PRADHAN Dhruv, BEng CSD SUTD (2025): 2025 - 2026 (now with ST Engineering)

Alumni (Visiting students/iROP)

  • SRINIVASAN M., iMTech CSE (expected 2026), IIIT, Bangalore: Aug. 2025 - Jan. 2026
  • LWIN Kendrick, BSc CS (expected 2026), RHUL, UK: Aug. 2025
  • HEUGEN Emily, BSc AI (expected 2026), University of Groningen, Netherlands: Sep. - Dec. 2025
  • ZHU Richard, Bachelor of CS in CS/Statistics (expected 2027), University of Waterloo, Canada: Sep. - Dec. 2025
  • MEKKI Romain, Engineering Diploma in Data Science (expected 2026), EURECOM (Sophia - Antipolis), France: Sep. - Dec. 2025