Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast

Shrey Tiwari | It's About Time: A Study of Date and Time Bugs in Python Software | #65


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In this episode, Bogdan Stoica, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the SysNet group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) steps in to guest host. Bogdan sits down with Shrey Tiwari, a PhD student in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University and member of the PASTA Lab, advised by Prof. Rohan Padhye. Together, they dive into Shrey’s award-winning research on date and time bugs in open-source Python software, exploring why these issues are so deceptively tricky and how they continue to affect systems we rely on every day.


The conversation traces Shrey’s journey from industry to research, including formative experiences at Citrix and Microsoft Research, and how those shaped his passion for software reliability. Shrey and Bogdan discuss the surprising complexity of date and time handling, the methodology behind Shrey’s empirical study, and the practical lessons developers can take away to build more robust systems. Along the way, they highlight broader questions about testing, bug detection, and the future role of AI in ensuring software correctness. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in debugging, reliability, and the hidden challenges that underpin modern software.


Links:

  • It’s About Time: An Empirical Study of Date and Time Bugs in Open-Source Python Software 🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  • Shrey's homepage

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