Umar Farooq
Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolUmar Farooq is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University and a former industry software engineer with a decade of experience bridging program analysis, mobile systems, and software engineering. His research advances the reliability, security, and efficiency of programming systems—work grounded in practical engineering from roles at ByteDance and startups. Trained with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Riverside and a bachelor's from Virtual University of Pakistan, he combines rigorous academic methods with production-grade implementation skills. Notably, his background includes building and evaluating real-world systems at scale, which informs both his teaching and research direction.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Virtual University of PakistanDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
51reputation
248reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (69)
optimizer10
bytecode10
android-apps10
java10
kotlin10
ranking9
android9
mozilla9
science8
static-analysis8
optimization8
computer-science8
soot8
react8
static-data8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ufarooq/DroidCFG
Apr 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
androidsootstatic-analysiswala
ucr-riple/LiveDroid
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 16 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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