Umar Farooq

Assistant Professor

Contact

ufarooq@lsu.edu
Office 3209M
Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Educational Background

PhD in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside (2021)

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  • CSC 4101: Programming Languages
  • Program Analysis
  • Compilers
  • Mobile systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Upadhyay, K., Chhetri, V., Siddique, A. B., & Farooq, U. (2025). Analyzing the Evolution and Maintenance of Quantum Computing Repositories. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06894.
  • Haider, M. U., Farooq, U., Siddique, A. B., & Marron, M. (2024). Looking into Black Box Code Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04868.
  • Maji, S., Fereidouni, M., Chhetri, V., Farooq, U., & Siddique, A. B. (2024). MobileConvRec: A Conversational Dataset for Mobile Apps Recommendations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17740.
  • M. H. Maqbool, Umar Farooq, Adib Mosharrof, A. B. Siddique, and Hassan Foroosh. "MobileRec: A Large Scale Dataset for Mobile Apps Recommendation." In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23) 2023.
  • Gai Liu, Umar Farooq, Chengyan Zhao, Xia Liu, and Nian Sun. "Linker code size optimization for native mobile applications." In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Compiler Construction, pp. 168-179. 2023.
  • Rahaman, S., Farooq, U., Neamtiu, I., & Zhao, Z. (2023, May). Detecting Potential User-data Save & Export Losses due to Android App Termination. In 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST) (pp. 152-162). IEEE.
  • Umar Farooq, A. B. Siddique, Fuad Jamour, Zhijia Zhao, and Vagelis Hristidis. "App-aware response synthesis for user reviews." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 699-708. 2020.
  • Umar Farooq, Zhijia Zhao, Manu Sridharan, and Iulian Neamtiu. "Livedroid: Identifying and preserving mobile app state in volatile runtime environments." Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 4, no. OOPSLA (2020): 1-30. 2020.
  • Lin Jiang, Xiaofan Sun, Umar Farooq, and Zhijia Zhao. "Scalable processing of contemporary semi-structured data on commodity parallel processors-a compilation-based approach." In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'19), pp. 79-92. 2019.
  • Umar Farooq, and Zhijia Zhao. "Runtimedroid: Restarting-free runtime change handling for Android apps." In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'18), pp. 110-122. 2018.
  • 2018: Best Paper (runner-up) Award at MobiSys 
  • 2018: ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
  • 2017 & 2018: Dean’s Fellowship Award at UC Riverside
  • 2024: Source: LA Board of Regents, Title: A Unified Framework for Static Analysis of Multi-Language Mobile Apps, PI: Umar Farooq, $180,000. 
  • 2024: Source: Department of Homeland Security, Title: Memory Forensics-Guided Execution Reconstruction for Android Devices, Co-PI: Umar Farooq, $492,922.