Aashish Yadavally is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, where he leads the Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (SAIL@UCF).

His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and software engineering, with a focus on optimizing software development processes and enhancing software security. His work has appeared in premier venues such as International Conference on Software Engineering, Foundations of Software Engineering, Automated Software Engineering, and Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, and has earned multiple accolades, including the Association for Computing Machinery SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at Foundations of Software Engineering 2024 and the IEEE Technical Community on Software Engineering Distinguished Paper Award at the 2022 Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering Conference. His long-term vision is to establish and advance scalable, AI-assisted development workflows that support secure and reliable software engineering.