My research mainly focuses on adapting smartphone application analysis procedures to generate novel insights and techniques for localizing application faults and information leaks. In addition to understanding program behavior, I aim to create strategies and software engineering solutions on smartphone platforms to improve overall user experience. 

I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in August 2016. The title of my doctoral thesis is Fault Discovery, Localization, and Recovery in Smartphone Applications. 

I have publications in premier software engineering (ICSE, OOPSLA, ASE), mobile systems (MobiSys), and security (USENIX Security) conferences. In addition, I have designed and developed several Android-based testing and debugging utilities (A3E, Android Arrow), and more recently I have designed uLink, a "user-defined" deep-linking framework for Android applications which redefines the deep linking technology we see in modern smartphone applications. I completed this project while I was an intern at Microsoft Research (MSR)’s Redmond campus. I have come back to MSR to continue working on this project.

[1] "Finding Resume and Restart Errors in Android Applications", Z. Shan, T. Azim, I. Neamtiu, OOPSLA'16 pdf
[2] "uLink: Enabling User-Defined Deep Linking to App Content", T. Azim, O. Riva, S. Nath, MobiSys'16 pdf
[3] "Versatile yet Lightweight Record-and-replay for Android", Y. Hu, T. Azim, I. Neamtiu, OOPSLA'15 pdf
[4] "Towards Self-healing Smartphone Software via Automated Patching", T. Azim, I. Neamtiu, L. Marvel, ASE'14 pdf [NIT]
[5] "Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components", R. Bhoraskar, S. Han, J. Jeon, T. Azim, S. Chen, J. Jung, S. Nath, R. Wang, D. Wetherall, USENIX Security'14 pdf
[6] "Targeted and Depth-first Exploration for Systematic Testing of Android Apps", T. Azim, I. Neamtiu, OOPSLA'13 pdf