Anna Mazhar
Ph.D. Candidate
Cornell University
Hi! I am Anna, a third-year PhD student at Cornell University, advised by Sainyam Galhotra. My research focuses on rigorous evaluation of complex systems with AI-driven components. I aim to develop principled techniques to improve system correctness, reliability, and trustworthiness in practice.
Before Cornell, I completed my MS in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Tianyin Xu, focusing on cloud systems reliability.
News
Recent updates- Traxr will be presented at Grace Hopper Celebration 2026.Oct 2026
- Presented work on testing machine unlearning at FSE'26.Jul 2026
- Traxr was invited to present at AI Engineer World's Fair.Jun 2026
- Moved to the bay for internship at Megagon Labs.Jun 2026
Research
Published Work
Traxr: Trace-Level Analysis of Information Contamination in Multi-Agent Systems
ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS'26)
Towards Reliable Testing of Machine Unlearning
ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'26 – IVR)
Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25)
Manuscripts in Preparation
Service & Awards
Service
- VLDB Demo 2026 — Program Committee
- Cornell BURE 2025 — Mentor
- Cornell CS Student-Application Support Program 2025 — Reviewer
- UIUC+ Summer Research Program — Mentor
Awards
- SIGSOFT Travel Grant — Travel support for attending conferences
- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (€49,000) — Awarded to 26 applicants out of 735
- Summer@EPFL Fellowship — Selected from ~4,500 applicants with a 1–2% acceptance rate
