News Briefs

  • Associate Director Prof. Crista Lopes has been awarded $562,762 from DARPA for her research on “Software Analytics for Big Code.”

         August 2016

  • Prof. Paul Dourish has been awarded the title of Chancellor’s Professor. This title is designed to recognize persons who have earned the title of Professor and who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievement is unusually high. 

         August 2016

  • Prof. Zhenyu (Charles) Zhang from the State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences is visiting ISR from August 2016 to August 2017.  His host at UCI is Prof. Sam Malek. 

         August 2016

  • Prof. Sam Malek has received a $119K award from the FBI for a project entitled “Analysis of Android Application Packages for Security-Relevant Properties.”

         July 2016

  • Associate Project Scientist Joshua Garcia gave a presentation at The Aerospace Corporation as part of their CSD Tech Forum series.  His talk was entitled “Effective, Lightweight Analysis of Android Apps—A Security and Testing Perspective.” 

         July 2016

  • Prof. Sam Malek and Assistant Project Scientist Hamid Bagheri have been awarded $499,170 by the National Science Foundation for their research on “Efficient Formal Analysis of Evolving Software Systems.”

         July 2016

  • Prof. Paul Dourish was a featured speaker at AI NOW - The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term, a public workshop on the future of AI co-hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NYU Information Law Institute in July. A video of his talk "Sites of Deliberation" is available.

         July 2016

  • Prof. Sam Malek, Assistant Project Scientist Joshua Garcia, Prof. Nenad Medvidovic, and Prof. Mehdi Mirakhorli at RIT have been awarded $130,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for thier research on “Planning and Prototyping a Community-Wide Software Architecture Instrument."

         July 2016

  • Prof. Gloria Mark was a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June. She was one of three speakers in the Connecting With Purpose breakout in the Power of Connectivity track. She spoke on the power of connectivity in our day-to-day lives.

         June 2016

  • Prof. Paul Dourish has been awarded $193,899 by the National Science Foundation in the Science, Technology, and Society program for his research on “Representational Materialities of Internet Protocols".

         May 2016

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