Saad Shafiq

Postdoc, University of Southern California

Joined

May 2025

Names

Saad Shafiq (Preferred)

Emails

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

****@hotmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2024 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Nenad Medvidovic

2024 – 2026

Expertise

Deep Neural Networks

Present

Publications

Catalyst: Out-of-Distribution Detection via Elastic Scaling
Abid Hassan, Tuan Ngo, Saad Shafiq, Nenad Medvidovic
- CVPR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DAVIS: Out-of-Distribution Detection via Dominant Activations and Variance for Increased Separation
Abid Hassan, Tuan Ngo, Saad Shafiq, Nenad Medvidovic
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Are We Learning the Right Features? A Framework for Evaluating DL-Based Software Vulnerability Detection Solutions
Satyaki Das, Syeda Tasnim Fabiha, Saad Shafiq, Nenad Medvidovic
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams - Observations from open- and closed-source software development
Saad Shafiq, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Atif Mashkoor, Alexander Egyed
- J. Softw. Evol. Process. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Code smells in pull requests: An exploratory study
Muhammad Ilyas Azeem, Saad Shafiq, Atif Mashkoor, Alexander Egyed
- Softw. Pract. Exp. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Improved Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detection
Adriana Sejfia, Satyaki Das, Saad Shafiq, Nenad Medvidovic
- ICSE 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Improving DNN Modularization via Activation-Driven Training
Tuan Ngo, Abid Hassan, Saad Shafiq, Nenad Medvidovic
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring Dependencies Among Inconsistencies to Enhance the Consistency Maintenance of Models
Luciano Marchezan, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Edvin Herac, Saad Shafiq, Alexander Egyed
- SANER 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Balanced Knowledge Distribution among Software Development Teams - Observations from Open-Source and Closed-Source Software Development
Saad Shafiq, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Atif Mashkoor, Alexander Egyed
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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