SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
VenueOakland Marriott City Center
Room nameGrand Ballroom Salons A+B
Room InformationNo extra information available
Program

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Sun 4 Oct

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08:30 - 10:00
08:30
90m
Talk
Teaching About Tools For ThoughtKeynote
SPLASH-E
K: Will Crichton Brown University
10:30 - 12:00
Teaching Formal FoundationsSPLASH-E at Grand Ballroom Salons A+B
Chair(s): Daniel Patterson Northeastern University
10:30
30m
Talk
An Approach to Introduce Hoare Logic in the Undergraduate CS Curriculum: In Memoriam of Tony Hoare
SPLASH-E
Marco T Morazan Seton Hall University
DOI
11:00
30m
Talk
More Pie for the Little Typer
SPLASH-E
Qixiang Zhang National University of Singapore, Ding Feng National University of Singapore, Singapore, Li Daoxin National University of Singapore, Martin Henz National University of Singapore
DOI
11:30
30m
Talk
Visualizing Turing Machines and Multitape Turing Machines
SPLASH-E
David Anthony K. Fields Seton Hall University, Sophia Turano Seton Hall University, Andrés M. Garced Seton Hall University, Marco Morazan Seton Hall University
DOI
13:30 - 15:00
Language and Environment Design for LearnersSPLASH-E at Grand Ballroom Salons A+B
Chair(s): Marco Morazan Seton Hall University
13:30
30m
Talk
Aiki: Designing a Programming Language from a Criterion of ApprehensionPresentation only
SPLASH-E
William D. Senn Tarleton State University
File Attached
14:00
30m
Talk
Integrating Blocks and Text in the ClassroomPresentation only
SPLASH-E
Ravi Chugh University of Chicago, Sam Cohen University of Chicago
File Attached
14:30
30m
Talk
RCKid: Designing a Programming Language Through Its EditorsPresentation only
SPLASH-E
Petr Maj Czech Technical University
15:30 - 17:00
Observing, Exploring and Assessing Student WorkSPLASH-E at Grand Ballroom Salons A+B
Chair(s): Pierre Donat-Bouillud Czech Technical University
15:30
30m
Talk
Curated Semantic Mutants: Multi-Purpose Artifacts for Grading and Hinting Student Test Suites
SPLASH-E
Rebecca Williams Earle Northeastern University, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University
DOI
16:00
30m
Talk
Observations on Tracing Program Design through Natural Language DialoguePresentation only
SPLASH-E
Kouta Kumamoto Institute of Science Tokyo, Youyou Cong Institute of Science Tokyo, Hidehiko Masuhara Institute of Science Tokyo
File Attached
16:30
30m
Talk
Proof Interfaces for Exploratory MathematicsPresentation only
SPLASH-E
Nishant Kheterpal University of Michigan, Matthew Keenan University of Michigan, Cyrus Omar University of Michigan, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin University of Michigan
File Attached

Mon 5 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
10:30
15m
Day opening
Welcome to REBASE
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Eddie Aftandilian XBOW, Daniel Lehmann Google, Filip Křikava Czech Technical University
10:45
45m
Industry talk
Building Code Models: Scale and Beyond invited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
11:30
30m
Industry talk
The Real World is Messy: Examining the Productivity Impact of Automatically Reverting Bad Changes
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
13:30 - 15:00
13:30
60m
Industry talk
The Anatomy of Machine Learning Compilersinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
14:30
30m
Industry talk
It's Alive!: AI and Live Programming
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Pre-print
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
45m
Industry talk
GitHub Agentic Workflows Security: Under the Hood and Behind the Wheelinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Landon Cox Microsoft Research
16:15
45m
Industry talk
From Formal Methods to Fuzzing and Backinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London

Tue 6 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
10:30
45m
Industry talk
A Simple Compiler Tutorialinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
11:15
45m
Industry talk
A Compiler And Visualizer Design For Debugger Visualization Expressionsinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
13:30 - 15:00
13:30
45m
Industry talk
A Taste of Verseinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Jan Vitek Charles University
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
45m
Industry talk
The Era of Coding Agentsinvited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Satish Chandra Meta Platforms, Inc.
16:15
30m
Industry talk
Cohesive Agent Teams with Central Agent Registry
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Vivek Krishna Choppa Amazon Web Services, USA

Wed 7 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
13:30
45m
Industry talk
Autonomous Testing with Time-Traveling Agents in a Chaotic Multiverse
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University and Antithesis
14:15
30m
Industry talk
Specification-Driven Code Validation via Automated Test Generation and Mutation Analysis
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Rajdeep Mukherjee Amazon, USA
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
45m
Industry talk
What Agentic Development Means for Rust (and Vice Versa)invited-talk
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
16:15
30m
Industry talk
The Last Mile of Certified Programming
SPLASH/ISSTA REBASE industry track
Joomy Korkut Bloomberg

Thu 8 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
13:30
30m
Talk
MoonBit: Safe Wasm-Backed Skills for AI Agents
PLSS
Zihang Ye International Digital Economy Academy, Hongbo Zhang International Digital Economy Academy
14:00
30m
Talk
The Power of Paper: The C Standard in 2026
PLSS
Björkus Dorkus Shepherd's Oasis
14:30
30m
Talk
Designing Language Specifications for Static Reasoning: Lessons from IRIDIUM
PLSS

Fri 9 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
10:30
20m
Full-paper
Symbolon: Symbolic Execution by Learning Code Transformation
LMPL
Jie Zhu University of Chicago, Penghui Li Columbia University, Zhongxuan Li University of Chicago, Chihao Shen University of Maryland, Ziyang Li Johns Hopkins University, Yizheng Chen University of Maryland, Kexin Pei The University of Chicago
10:50
15m
Short-paper
Feature Reduction for Translating Language Interpreters from C to Safe Rust
LMPL
Bo Wang National University of Singapore, Brandon Paulsen Amazon, Joey Dodds Amazon, Daniel Kroening Amazon, Umang Mathur National University of Singapore, Prateek Saxena National University of Singapore
Pre-print
11:05
20m
Full-paper
SWE-Proof: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World Issues with Machine-Checked Proofs?
LMPL
George Ma University of California, Berkeley, Benjamin Mikek Georgia Institute of Technology, Haoyu Li University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ferhat Erata Amazon Web Services, USA, Yuhao Zhang Amazon Web Services, Zeren Shui Amazon Web Services, Murali Krishna Ramanathan AWS AI Labs, Hao Zhou Amazon Web Services, Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani AWS AI Labs, Jun Huan AWS AI Labs, Anoop Deoras AWS AI Labs, Somayeh Sojoudi University of California, Berkeley
11:25
15m
Short-paper
The Checkability Boundary: Abstraction Principles for LLM-Assisted Verification and Analysis
LMPL
Chenyu Zhou University of Southern California, Yuzhou Fang University of Southern California, Jingbo Wang Purdue University
11:40
20m
Full-paper
Detecting Database Migration Non-equivalence through LLM-Assisted Mutation-Score-Guided Testing
LMPL
Yuhao Zhang Amazon Web Services, Sayan Ghosh Amazon Web Services, Amit Kachroo Amazon, Jun Huan AWS AI Labs
13:30 - 15:00
13:30
20m
Full-paper
FlowCheck: Helping End-users Specify and Verify Intent in Vibe-Coded Web Apps
LMPL
Reya Vir Columbia University, Lydia Chilton Columbia University, Zhuo Zhang Columbia University, Eugene Wu Columbia University
13:50
15m
Short-paper
Type-Carrying Names
LMPL
Xuejing Huang Standard Chartered Bank
14:05
20m
Full-paper
Predicting Program Exit Code with LLMs and Programming Language Semantics
LMPL
Lara Marinov The University of Texas at Austin, Aditya Thimmaiah University of Texas at Austin, Jayanth Srinivasa Cisco, Junyi Jessy Li University of Texas at Austin, USA, Milos Gligoric University of Texas at Austin
14:25
15m
Short-paper
Dissociating language and thought in the brain using LLM-guided program synthesis
LMPL
Kartik Chandra MIT, Pablo Wentz MIT, Mitchell Chan MIT, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rebecca Saxe MIT
14:40
20m
Full-paper
The Best Programming Language for Tokenmaxxing: An Investigation of Coding Agent Behavior Across Programming Languages
LMPL
Zixuan Wu Northeastern University, Carolyn Jane Anderson Wellesley College, Arjun Guha Northeastern University, USA
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
20m
Full-paper
Invariant Pretraining for Robust Code Representations
LMPL
Yifeng He University of California at Davis, USA, Yundi Xu University of California, Davis, Christopher Castro Gaw Gonzalo University of California, Davis, Zili Wang University of California, Davis, Hao Chen University of California at Davis
15:50
15m
Short-paper
Rethinking Correctness Evaluation for GPU Kernel Optimization
LMPL
Zirui Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yunbo Ni The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shaohua Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-print
16:05
15m
Short-paper
Refining LLM-based Directed Test Input Generation via Runtime Value Feedback
LMPL
Narin Han Chungbuk National University, Shin Hong Chungbuk National University
Pre-print
16:20
20m
Full-paper
Semantic Prefix Oracles for LLM Decoding: Contracts and Differential Validation
LMPL
Paul Kronlund-Drouault Unsuspicious Industries
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
16:40
15m
Short-paper
From Answers to Contracts: LLM Agents as Untrusted Program Components
LMPL
Haonan Li University of California at Riverside, USA, Zhiyun Qian University of California at Riverside, USA
16:40
20m
Full-paper
Authority Is Not a String: A Capability-Scoped Harness for Prompt-Injection-Resistant Coding Agents
LMPL
Dimitrios Stamatios Bouras Peking University, Yihan Dai Peking University, Sergey Mechtaev Peking University
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Thu 8 Oct

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Fri 9 Oct

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Fri 9 Oct

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