Owain Parry is a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. He received his PhD in 2023 with a thesis on flaky tests titled Understanding and Mitigating Flaky Software Test Cases, supervised by Phil McMinn. Owain is currently working on the EPSRC-funded Test FLARE (Test Flakiness Automated Reproduction and Explanation) project, which will develop and empirically evaluate techniques capable of automatically reproducing flaky behaviour that is due to the execution environment.

Beyond flaky tests, Owain’s research interests include: automatic test generation, machine learning, search-based software engineering, and quantum computing. As part of the Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing (RoaRQ) programme, Owain is currently working on using genetic programming to evolve ensembles of quantum algorithms that are inherently robust to noise without requiring many extra qubits. This is particularly applicable in the current era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing.