Saswat Anand

2.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Saswat Anand is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Saswat Anand has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Information Systems, 12 papers in Signal Processing and 10 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Saswat Anand's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers) and Software Engineering Research (6 papers). Saswat Anand is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers) and Software Engineering Research (6 papers). Saswat Anand collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Saswat Anand's co-authors include Mary Jean Harrold, Alex Aiken, Yu Feng, Işıl Dillig, Hongseok Yang, Mayur Naik, Edmund Burke, Myra B. Cohen, Tsong Yueh Chen and Wolfgang Grieskamp and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Systems and Software, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Saswat Anand

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An orchestrated survey of methodologies for automated software test case generation

2013 413 citations Saswat Anand, Edmund Burke et al. Journal of Systems and Software profile →
Apposcopy: semantics-based detection of Android malware through static analysis

2014 305 citations Yu Feng, Saswat Anand et al. profile →
Automated concolic testing of smartphone apps

2012 295 citations Saswat Anand, Mayur Naik et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saswat Anand United States	11	1.0k	731	714	447	221	19	1.3k
Christoph Csallner United States	17	1.0k 1.0×	853 1.2×	211 0.3×	244 0.5×	240 1.1×	47	1.3k
Fan Long Canada	19	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	406 0.6×	402 0.9×	424 1.9×	44	1.8k
Michael Y. Levin United States	12	1.5k 1.5×	819 1.1×	807 1.1×	297 0.7×	552 2.5×	18	1.9k
Cemal Yılmaz Türkiye	17	634 0.6×	493 0.7×	194 0.3×	345 0.8×	347 1.6×	68	1.0k
Christopher Salls United States	7	756 0.7×	508 0.7×	914 1.3×	250 0.6×	570 2.6×	8	1.3k
Carlos Pacheco United States	8	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	305 0.4×	411 0.9×	449 2.0×	9	2.0k
Marcelo d’Amorim Brazil	20	728 0.7×	619 0.8×	215 0.3×	271 0.6×	315 1.4×	67	1.1k
Neelam Gupta United States	23	1.8k 1.8×	1.3k 1.8×	177 0.2×	604 1.4×	203 0.9×	45	2.1k
Zijiang Yang United States	20	507 0.5×	590 0.8×	206 0.3×	254 0.6×	273 1.2×	65	1.0k
Jeff Perkins United States	14	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	576 0.8×	540 1.2×	705 3.2×	22	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Saswat Anand

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Fields of papers citing papers by Saswat Anand

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saswat Anand

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Saswat Anand. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Saswat Anand based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Saswat Anand. Saswat Anand is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Shi, Kensen, Saswat Anand, Mihai Christodorescu, et al.. (2025). Natural Language Outlines for Code: Literate Programming in the LLM Era. 150–161. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Yu, Osbert Bastani, Ruben Martins, Işıl Dillig, & Saswat Anand. (2017). Automated Synthesis of Semantic Malware Signatures using Maximum Satisfiability. 53 indexed citations

3.

Bastani, Osbert, et al.. (2016). Minimizing GUI event traces. 422–434. 30 indexed citations

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Bastani, Osbert, Saswat Anand, & Alex Aiken. (2015). Specification Inference Using Context-Free Language Reachability. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 50(1). 553–566. 8 indexed citations

5.

Bastani, Osbert, Saswat Anand, & Alex Aiken. (2015). Interactively verifying absence of explicit information flows in Android apps. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 50(10). 299–315. 3 indexed citations

6.

Anand, Saswat, et al.. (2015). Modelgen: mining explicit information flow specifications from concrete executions. 129–140. 14 indexed citations

7.

Bastani, Osbert, Saswat Anand, & Alex Aiken. (2015). Interactively verifying absence of explicit information flows in Android apps. 299–315. 10 indexed citations

8.

Feng, Yu, Işıl Dillig, Saswat Anand, & Alex Aiken. (2014). Apposcopy: automated detection of Android malware (invited talk). 13–14. 7 indexed citations

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Bastani, Osbert, Saswat Anand, & Alex Aiken. (2014). Specification Inference Using Context-Free Language Reachability. 553–566. 26 indexed citations

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Feng, Yu, Saswat Anand, Işıl Dillig, & Alex Aiken. (2014). Apposcopy: semantics-based detection of Android malware through static analysis. 576–587. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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Anand, Saswat, Edmund Burke, Tsong Yueh Chen, et al.. (2013). An Orchestrated Survey on Automated Software Test Case Generation I. 35 indexed citations

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Anand, Saswat, Edmund Burke, Tsong Yueh Chen, et al.. (2013). An orchestrated survey of methodologies for automated software test case generation. Journal of Systems and Software. 86(8). 1978–2001. 413 indexed citations breakdown →

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d’Amorim, Marcelo, et al.. (2012). Symbolic Execution with Interval Solving and Meta-heuristic Search. 111–120. 31 indexed citations

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Anand, Saswat, Mayur Naik, Mary Jean Harrold, & Hongseok Yang. (2012). Automated concolic testing of smartphone apps. 1–11. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

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Anand, Saswat & Mary Jean Harrold. (2011). Heap cloning: Enabling dynamic symbolic execution of java programs. 8 indexed citations

16.

Halfond, William G. J., Saswat Anand, & Alessandro Orso. (2009). Precise interface identification to improve testing and analysis of web applications. 285–296. 54 indexed citations

17.

Anand, Saswat, Corina S. Păsăreanu, & Willem Visser. (2008). Symbolic execution with abstraction. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer. 11(1). 53–67. 43 indexed citations

18.

Anand, Saswat, et al.. (2001). Charting patterns on price history. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 36(10). 134–145. 1 indexed citations

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Anand, Saswat, Wei-Ngan Chin, & Siau‐Cheng Khoo. (2001). Charting patterns on price history. 3 indexed citations

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