Giorgi Merabishvili

Giorgi Merabishvili

PhD student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, advised by Marcelo d'Amorim. I work on software testing and improving the robustness of software systems. Previously, I earned my MS in Computer Engineering from NYU and worked with Andrea Stocco at TU Munich (DAAD scholar). This summer I will join the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy as a research intern with Marcel Böhme.

2026 Joining Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy as a research intern.
2026 Paper on latent regularization accepted at DeepTest '26 (ICSE Workshop).
2025 Targeted boundary testing paper accepted at ACM TOSEM.
2025 Started PhD at NC State University.
2025 – Present
NC State

North Carolina State University

PhD in Computer Science

Coursework: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Software Testing and Reliability

2023 – 2025
NYU

New York University

MS in Computer Engineering · GPA: 3.80

Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, ML for Cybersecurity, Probability and Stochastic Processes

2019 – 2023
St. Francis College

St. Francis College

BS in Information Technology · GPA: 3.95 · Summa Cum Laude

Honors Thesis: "Robotics and Environmental Issues", NE Regional Honors Conference 2023

2026 incoming
Max Planck Institute

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Research Intern · Bochum, Germany

Advisor: Dr. Marcel Böhme

2025 – Present
NC State

North Carolina State University

Research Assistant · Raleigh, NC

Advisor: Dr. Marcelo d'Amorim. Game testing: developed MR-guided VLM glitch detection for gameplay videos. WebAssembly runtime analysis: transplanting regression tests across runtimes and using them as seed corpora for fuzzing.

2024 – 2025
TU Munich

Technical University of Munich

Research Intern · Munich, Germany

Advisor: Dr. Andrea Stocco. Conducted research on automated testing for deep learning systems. Developed latent space interpolation methods for boundary testing and improved validity of generated test pairs.

2024 – 2025
RoboMaster NYU

RoboMaster NYU

Computer Vision Engineer · New York, NY

Worked on real-time object detection systems for tracking enemy robots. Trained and tested models on hardware provided by the mechanical team.

Latent regularization: shapes morph as truncation psi decreases, fourth seed flips class at boundary

Latent Regularization in Generative Test Input Generation

G. Merabishvili, O. Weißl, A. Stocco

DeepTest '26 — ICSE Workshop, 2026

Studies how truncation in StyleGAN latent spaces affects test input quality. Adaptive truncation (ψ≈0.6) maximizes fault detection while preserving validity and diversity.

Mimicry: test input interpolates from source class toward decision boundary via style-mixing

Targeted Deep Learning System Boundary Testing

O. Weißl, A. Abdellatif, X. Chen, G. Merabishvili, V. Riccio, S. Kacianka, A. Stocco

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025

Introduces Mimicry, a targeted boundary testing technique using disentangled StyleGAN latent spaces to find inputs near decision boundaries across 5 image classification datasets.

DAAD Research Scholarship Munich · 2024
Merit Award, New York University New York · 2023–2025
Summa Cum Laude, St. Francis College New York · 2023
Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society New York · 2023
Travel Grant, NE Regional Honors Conference New York · 2023
Merit & Institutional Scholarship, St. Francis College New York · 2019–2023