
Saima Afrin
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
William & Mary
251 Jamestown Rd., Williamsburg
Virginia, USA
I am currently working under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Mastropaolo as a member of the AURA Lab, where I contribute to research on AI4SE with a focus on optimizing the performance and adaptability of code-focused AI models.
Before starting my Ph.D., I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Daffodil International University, graduating in the top tier of my class. My early research explored supervised and deep learning techniques across a variety of real-world problems, contributing to several peer-reviewed publications.
Alongside my academic journey, I also served as a full-time Lecturer at Daffodil International University, where I mentored undergraduate students and contributed to a collaborative teaching and research environment. I am passionate about impactful, collaborative research and regularly engage in conferences, seminars, and innovation events to exchange ideas with the broader scientific community.
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Served as a reviewer at "Journal of Systems and Software" (JSS) .
Presented our paper "Is Quantization a Deal‑breaker: Empirical Insights from Large Code Models" at ICSME 2025 Conference .
I got the opportunity to serve as a student volunteer at the ICSME 2025 Conference, took place in Auckland, NewZealand .
Pleased to share that I served as a PC member at the "International Workshop on Analytics for Software Product and Process Improvement 2025" (A-SPPI 2025), co-located with PROFES 2025 .
I was awarded the ICSME 2025 NSF Student Travel Grant.
Our paper "Is Quantization a Deal‑breaker: Empirical Insights from Large Code Models" was accepted as a Full Paper at ICSME 2025 .
Our study on Code LLMs and Quantization "Quantizing large language models for code generation: A differentiated replication" is available on arXiv:2503.07103.
Submitted our systematic literature review "Parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning for large code models" to ACM TOSEM (under review). Preprint: arXiv:2504.21569.
Presented our paper "Resource‑efficient & effective code summarization" at at Forge (AI Foundation Models & Software Engineering) 2025 conference, co-located with ICSE 2025 (Ottawa, Canada).
Our paper "Single-GPU GNN systems: Traps and Pitfalls" has been accepted at USENIX 2024.
Our paper "Resource‑efficient & effective code summarization" was accepted at Forge (AI Foundation Models & Software Engineering) 2025.