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Owolabi Legunsen

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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Owolabi Legunsen is an assistant professor of computer science. He is part of the Software Engineering Group and is broadly interested in research on software engineering, with a focus on software testing and runtime verification. Legunsen completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his master's degree in computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his B.Sc. in computer engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He has received three ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper awards (ASE 2016, ISSTA 2023, ISSTA 2024), an NSF CAREER Award, an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, and a Microsoft Faculty Research Fellowship Finalist designation.

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Research areas
Software Engineering
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Contact
(607) 216-4264
legunsen@cornell.edu
Location
Ithaca
Office
Gates Hall 442A
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Faculty (Department)
Computer Science

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NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER)

National Science Foundation
Owolabi Legunsen
  • Education
  • 2021

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Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor of computer science in Cornell Bowers.
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