Alif Al Hasan CS PhD Student @ CWRU

Publications


Conference Papers

"What Breaks When LLMs Code? Characterizing Operational Safety Failures of Agentic Code Assistants"

Alif Al Hasan, Sumon Biswas

41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Munich, Germany, 2026

ASE 2026 Rank: A*
"Improving Code Comprehension through Cognitive-Load Aware Automated Refactoring for Novice Programmers"

Subarna Saha, Alif Al Hasan, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Mia Mohammad Imran

30th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2026

EASE 2026 Rank: A AR: 28%
"Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on r/learnprogramming"

Alif Al Hasan, Subarna Saha, Mia Mohammad Imran

48th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026

ICSE-SEET 2026 Rank: A* AR: 33%

Journal Papers

"SEAGET: Seasonal and Active hours guided Graph Enhanced Transformer for the next POI recommendation"

Alif Al Hasan, Md. Musfique Anwar

Array, 2025

Array Rank: Q1 IF: 4.5 | CiteScore: 10.3

Workshop Papers

"LLPut: Investigating Large Language Models for Bug Report-Based Input Generation"

Alif Al Hasan, Subarna Saha, Mia Mohammad Imran, Tarannum Shaila Zaman

1st International Workshop on Large Language Model-Oriented Empirical Research (co-located with ACM FSE 2025), Trondheim, Norway, 2025

LLanMER @ FSE 2025

Preprints

"The Refusal–Compliance Tradeoff: A Large-Scale Safety Behavior Audit of Large Language Models"

Alif Al Hasan, Sumon Biswas

arXiv preprint, 2026

Preprint