VANYA YANEVA-CORMACK

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I am a PhD candidate in Software Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. My background is in High Performance Computing and I hold an MSc from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. I also have three years of experience as a software engineer in industry.

My research interests are in the areas of software engineering, software testing, parallel architectures, programming models and compilers.

My PhD work focuses on developing novel methods to automate and accelerate the execution of large test suites by running tests in parallel on GPU architectures.

My supervisors are Dr Ajitha Rajan and Dr Christophe Dubach.

• GPU Acceleration of FSM Test Execution: Improving Scale and Performance. Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan, Christophe Dubach. In STVR 2020 (submitted, under revision)


• Accelerated Finite State Machine Test Execution Using GPUs. Vanya Yaneva, Arnav Kapoor, Ajitha Rajan, Christophe Dubach. In APSEC 2018


• Assessing the Effect of Data Transformations on Test Suite Compilation. Panagiotis Stratis, Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan. In ESEM 2018


• Compiler-Assisted Test Acceleration Using GPUs. Vanya Yaneva. In ICSE 2018, ACM Student Research Competition


• Compiler-Assisted Test Acceleration on GPUs for Embedded Software. Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan, and Christophe Dubach. In ISSTA 2017


• ParTeCL: Parallel Testing Using OpenCL. Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan, and Christophe Dubach. In ISSTA 2017

• Accelerated Finite State Machine Test Execution Using GPUs
  Invited talk at:
  • The University of Sheffield, UK (January 2019)


• GPU Acceleration of Functional Software Testing
  Presented at:
  • 2018 EPSRC CDT Industrial Engagement Event, Edinburgh (April 2018)


• Accelerated Finite State Machine Testing Using GPUs
  Presented at:
  • CDT PPar Lunch, University of Edinburgh (April 2018)


• Compiler-Assisted Test Acceleration on GPUs for Embedded Software
  Presented at:
  • LFCS Lab Lunch, University of Edinburgh (January 2018)
  • Codeplay Software, Edinburgh (June 2017)
  • PPar CDT Student Showcase, University of Edinburgh (June 2017)


• Compiler-Assisted Test Acceleration Using GPUs
  Presented at:
  • 2016 EPSRC CDT PPar & CDT HiPEDS Industrial Engagement Event, Edinburgh (November 2016)


• Accelerated Test Execution Using GPUs
  Presented at:
  • MathWorks, Cambridge (May 2016)
  • 3DT and Friends Event, University of Edinburgh (May 2016)

• Tutor, Software Testing (UG3)
  Spring 2016 - 2020
  School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh


• Teaching Assistant, MSc in High Performance Computing (MSc)
  Spring/Autumn 2015 - 2020
  EPCC, University of Edinburgh


• Demonstrator, Computer Programming Skills and Concepts (UG1)
  Autumn 2018
  School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

• PC Member, ECOOP 2019 Artifacts, May 2019
• Student Volunteer, APSEC 2018, December 2018
• PC Member, ECOOP/ISSTA 2018 Doctoral Symposium, May 2018

• The Claire Jones Prize, November 2016
  School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  Awarded to the best performing female MSc student.


• High Performance Computing Scholarship, May 2012
  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

• Automated Test Execution Using GPUs, August 2016
  Master's Thesis, MSc by Research in Pervasive Parallelism
  University of Edinburgh


• Visual Parallel Programming, August 2013
  Master's Thesis, MSc in High Performance Computing
  University of Edinburgh