Amirali Rayegan
PhD Candidate at NC State

Hi, I'm Amirali

Machine Learning Researcher

I'm a student. A student in science, visionary AI, statistics, and lastly Machine Learning and Software Engineering. Currently, PhD research takes up almost all my time. When I find some spare time, I play tennis and Chess. Like a Lot!!

Latest News

What I've been recently up to

Dec 2025 📝Registered Report submitted to MSR conference (under review)
Dec 2025 📝Showcase paper submitted to MSR conference (under review)
Nov 2025 🎓Passed my Written Preliminary Exam (first PhD milestone)
Sep 2025 📝Paper submitted to Journal of Systems and Software (under review)
Jul 2025 💻Summer Camp Instructor at NCSU for high school students
Jun 2025 🏆NCSU College of Engineering Graduate Merit Award
May 2025 🎖️CYC Best Engagement Award for cloud security compliance
Sep 2024 🌟Joined Consult Your Community as a Business Analyst
Jun 2024 🏆NCSU College of Engineering Graduate Merit Award
Jan 2024 🎓Started my PhD at NC State

Research

Areas I'm passionate about exploring. Currently doing research under supervision of Dr. Tim Menzies.

Achieving Stability through Causality (Ongoing)

Investigating whether replacing correlation-based decision rules with causality-aware reasoning can make software analytics models more stable, interpretable, and trustworthy, by comparing causal and correlational models.

Search-Based SE Causality Stability EZR

Label-Efficient SE Optimization

Developing the EZR framework for SE Multi-Objective optimization that achieves state-of-the-art results while reducing labeling costs by 91% on average. View

Software Engineering Search-Based SE Machine Learning Optimization Explanation

Machine Learning for Price Prediction (Undergrad research)

Applying ARIMA, SVM, RNN, LSTM, and Bi-LSTM for stock price prediction tasks with comparative analysis. View

Time Series Deep Learning Finance

Blockchain Analysis (Undergrad research)

Investigated Ethereum's transition from PoW to PoS, exploring implications for network security, energy consumption, and market dynamics.

Blockchain Ethereum PoS/PoW

Publications

My academic contributions

Education

My academic journey

2024 — Present

PhD in Computer Science

North Carolina State University

Research in WISER software engineering lab, with Dr. Tim Menzies.

4.0 GPA

2018 — 2023

BSc Computer Engineering

University of Tehran

Information Technology Minor.

3.62 GPA

Academic Projects

Things I've built and worked on

Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing research collaborations, interesting projects, or opportunities in machine learning and AI.

arayega@ncsu.edu