Giorgi Merabishvili

I'm a PhD student at North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh, working in the SWAT research group under Professor Marcelo d'Amorim. Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned my master's degree in Computer Engineering from New York University. During my master’s studies, I worked with Professor Andrea Stocco at the Technical University of Munich, supported by a DAAD research stipend.

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Research

I am broadly interested in software engineering, testing and improving robustness of software systems. Currently, working on WebAssembly runtime testing.

Publications

Targeted Deep Learning System Boundary Testing

Oliver Weißl, Amr Abdellatif, Xingcheng Chen, Giorgi Merabishvili, Vincenzo Riccio, Severin Kacianka, Andrea Stocco — ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025

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Education

North Carolina State University — PhD, Computer Science

Raleigh, NC · 2025 – Present · Advisor: Dr. Marcelo d’Amorim
New York University — MS, Computer Engineering

New York, NY · 2023 – 2025 · GPA 3.80
St. Francis College — BS, Information Technology

New York, NY · 2019 – 2023 · GPA 3.95 · Summa Cum Laude

Work Experience

Research Assistant, North Carolina State University

2025 – Present

WebAssembly runtime analysis; transplanting regression tests across runtimes and using them as seed corpora for fuzzing.
Research Intern, Technical University of Munich

2024 – 2025

Automated testing for deep-learning systems; designed latent-space interpolation techniques to expose decision boundaries.
Computer Vision Engineer, RoboMaster NYU

2024 – 2025

Built and deployed a real-time object-detection pipeline for competitive robotics.
Technology Specialist, Google Developer Student Clubs NYU

2023 – 2024

Organized ML/GenAI workshops and maintained technical documentation.

Awards & Honors

DAAD Scholarship (Research Project) — Munich, Germany — 2024
Merit Award, New York University — 2023–2025
Honors Program Scholar & Summa Cum Laude, St. Francis College — 2023
Travel Grant, Northeast Regional Honors Conference — 2023
Inducted, Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society — 2023
Merit & Institutional Scholarships, St. Francis College — 2019-2023

Extracurricular Activities

Member, NCSU Water Polo Club — 2025–Present
Member, NYU Water Polo Club — 2023–2025
NCAA Division I Water Polo, St. Francis College — 2019–2020
Water Polo Youth National Team & Club Iveria, Georgia — 2015–2019

News

October 28, 2025: The paper Targeted Deep Learning System Boundary Testing has been accepted for publication at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology!
April 7, 2025: Accepted PhD offer at NC State starting Fall 2025!