News Briefs

  • On January 24, ISR and MSWE held the second annual Southern California Software Engineering Symposium (SuCSES). Read all about it in this article by Shani Murray, Senior Write in the School of ICS. Photos are available here.

         February 2020

  • Prof. Janet Burge from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO is visiting ICS for Winter and Spring quarters of 2020. Her faculty host is Prof. André van der Hoek. Prof. Burge’s research focuses on design rationale, AI in design, software engineering, and computer science education.

         January 2020

  • Alumnus Hosub Lee (Samsung Research America, Ph.D. 2019) and his advisor professor emeritus Alfred Kobsa have published the paper titled “Confident Privacy Decision-Making in IoT Environments” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 27(1), Article 6, Dec. 2019.

         January 2020

  • Prof. Gloria Mark is part of a three-university Collaborative NSF Future of Work Grant on “Intelligent Facilitation for Teams of the Future via Longitudinal Sensing in Context.” UCI is the lead for the $1.1 million grant. University of Notre Dame and University of Colorado at Boulder are the other two partners.

         December 2019

  • Prof. Michael Franz has been elected as an IFIP Fellow, as one of the inaugural cohort of 48 fellows. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Fellow Award recognizes individuals of the highest professional standing and expertise in one of IFIP’s constituent societies (which includes ACM) who have also contributed directly to IFIP. Prof. Franz is already a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.

         December 2019

  • ISR Director Prof. Sam Malek and Prof. Nenad Medvidović have received an $85,000 gift from Google for their research on Mining Architectural Information to Stem Technical Debt.

         December 2019

  • Chancellor's Professor Michael Franz and two of his former Post-Doctoral researchers were awarded a fundamental United States Patent (No. 10,430,265) that makes software diversity viable as a cyber-defensive technology. The patent explains: Error report reporting errors that occur during software execution may be normalized to account for diversification of single software program. A method for useful providing error reports comprises receiving information regarding computer system status at a time of failure of proper execution of a diversified implementation of a computer program, the computer program having a plurality of diversified implementations; and transforming the information regarding the computer system status using metadata indicative of differences between the diversified implementation of the computer program and a canonical implementation of the computer program.

         November 2019

  • UCI Ph.D. student Dokyung Song along with his advisor Michael Franz and Post-Doctoral Researcher Yeoul Na presented their work on the Periscope automatic programming error-finding framework at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas in August. With approximately 20,000 attendees, Black Hat is the most prestigious computer security event and is attended by the CIOs and CISOs of most major corporations, including virtually all of the Fortune 500.

    The work of the UCI research group has not just theoretical importance, but also major practical significance. In the course of their project, they discovered 9 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy flagship phones and were awarded 8 CVE entries in the National Vulnerability Database. Due to responsible disclosure, all of these vulnerabilities were fixed by the respective manufacturers before the UCI presented them to the public.

         November 2019

  • Prof. Gloria Mark is part of a three-university Collaborative NSF Future of Work Grant. UCI is the lead for the grant, “Intelligent Facilitation for Teams of the Future via Longitudinal Sensing in Context,” and the $1.1 million in funding is split between UCI, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more about it in ICS News here.

         November 2019

  • ISR Director Prof. Sam Malek served as a co-organizer of the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis (A-Mobile), at the 34rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019) held in San Diego in November. The other co-organizers were: Li Li, Monash University, Australia; Guozhu Meng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; and Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

         November 2019

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