Manu Sridharan

I am a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and a member of the RIPLE research group. I work in the areas of programming languages and software engineering, and I am interested in developing tools and techniques to make large-scale software more reliable, performant, secure, and maintainable. A list of my publications (fairly up to date) is here; also see DBLP and my Google Scholar page.

Previously, I worked on applying PL technologies at Uber. I was the primary developer of NullAway, a tool to help eliminate Java null pointer errors with low build-time overhead; I continue to be a primary maintainer. Before Uber, I worked at IBM Research and at Samsung Research America. Even before that, I received my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Check out the RIPLE page to see the wide variety of exciting work in programming languages and software engineering happening at UC Riverside. Here is a keynote I gave at SOAP 2024 on some of my recent work:

If you have a strong CS background and are excited about building tools to make software better and software development easier, please apply to our PhD program and get in touch!

Students

• Kanak Das
• Sanjay Malakar
• Loi Nguyen

• Narges Shadab (2023)
• Madhurima Chakraborty (2025)
• Nima Karimipour (2025)