Hi, I'm Farhan Saif

I am a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Luis Pina in University of Illinois Chicago exploring research questions around memory models and multi-version execution of managed languages.

Also, I'm thankful to Prashast Srivastava as I got to explore in details on directed fuzzing.

Before that, I did my undergrad from the Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. My undergraduate research was in finding vulnerabilities in webassembly binaries.

Timeline

• Graduate Research Assistant, Summer'25 - Present
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall'24 - Spring'25

Recent works

• Python RR and MVE(Under development): Can we apply the same techniques for existing record-replay and multi-version execution systems in case of free threading python without the global interpreter lock? This is a research question under investigation where we have to apply compiler engineering concepts in the source level and graduallly dive deep into the lower levels of python virtual machine.
• Clox: Lox language interpreter. Stack based virtual machine with custom IR. Here for more.
• Jlox: Lox language interpreter based on JVM. Here for more.

Papers

SNEK: Testing Concurrent Python without the GIL[under submission] [fall'24]

General Research Interest

• Multithreading and Concurrency
• Compilers
• Software Reliability

Frequently Used Languages and toolchains

• C/C++
• Python
• Java

Courses I've Ta'ed for:

• CS 361: Systems Programming, Spring'25
• CS 261: Machine Organization, Fall'24

Contact

• mail : fsaif[at]uic[dot]edu
• Github
• Linkedin