News Briefs

  • Professor Iftekhar Ahmed is leading the ICSE 2020 US(Pacific) Regional Live! team. The Live! team will set up the infrastructure for live streaming the ICSE 2020 sessions in July, provide technical support, and coordinate among the virtual conference participants during the sessions to ensure the program runs smoothly. ISR Director professor Sam Malek, professor James A. Jones, and a group of ISR graduate students are serving as team members. The students include Sumaya Almanee (J. Garcia, advisor), Farima FarmahiniFarahani (C. Lopes, advisor), Fnu Jirigesi (I. Ahmed, advisor), Forough Mehralian (S. Malek, advisor), Navid Salehnamadi (S. Malek, advisor), and Maruf Zaber (C. Lopes, advisor).

         June 2020

  • The paper titled “On the Relationship Between Design Discussions and Design Quality: A Case Study of Apache Projects” has been accepted to the Research track at ESEC/FSE 2020 to be held in November. The paper is authored by Ph.D. student Umme Ayda Mannan of Oregon State University, professor Iftekhar Ahmed, and professors Carlos Jensen and Anita Sarma of Oregon State University.

         June 2020

  • ISR Director professor Sam Malek, professor Iftekhar Ahmed, and professor Stacy Branham, Informatics, have been awarded a $75,000 School of ICS Exploration grant for their project titled “Toward Stemming Accessibility Issues in Software.”

         June 2020

  • Prof. Iftekhar Ahmed and Prof. André van der Hoek have been awarded a $75,000 School of ICS exploration grant to study “The Dark Side of Software Engineering: Stimulant Use among Software Professionals.” Prof. Eduardo Almeida of Federal University of Bahia, Brazil will collaborate with Ahmed and van der Hoek.

         June 2020

  • ISR Director professor Sam Malek gave a virtual presentation titled “The Threat in Your Pocket: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions in Mobile Application Security” to the OC ACM Chapter for their meeting on May 20.

         June 2020

  • Alumnus and ISR faculty member Norman Su has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. Congratulations, Norman!

         June 2020

  • Professor Gloria Mark, professor Suellen Hopfer of UCI Public Health, and professor Chen Li of UCI Computer Science have been awarded $180,000 from the National Science Foundation for a RAPID grant for their research on “Leveraging Twitter Data for Real-time Public Health Responses to Coronavirus: Identifying Affective Desensitization, Loneliness and Depression, and Trust.”

         June 2020

  • UCI's work on "NoJITsu: Locking Down JavaScript Engines" by Taemin Park, Karel Dhondt (KU Leuven), David Gens, Yeoul Na, Stijn Volckaert (KU Leuven), and Michael Franz has been invited for presentation at Black Hat USA 2020 in August. Now in its 23rd year, Black Hat USA is the world's leading information security event, providing attendees with the very latest in research, development and trends. Every year Black Hat USA brings together about 20,000 attendees, including C-suite representation from virtually every company in the Fortune 1000 / Global 1000. Presenting at Black Hat in front of this illustrious audience is a rare honor that demonstrates UCI's relevance in this space.

         May 2020

  • Prof. Cristina Lopes is chairing the “ICSE 2020 Virtualization Committee” which is exploring options for holding ICSE virtually and designing a new “Virtual ICSE” for July 2020.

         May 2020

  • Chancellor's Prof. Paul Dourish’s CHI 2020 paper titled “On Being Iterated: The Affective Demands of Design Participation” received a Best Paper award (top 1% of submissions). The paper is co-authored by Christopher Lawrence and Tuck Wah Leong of University of Technology Sydney and Greg Wadley of University of Melbourne.

         May 2020

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