AVESTA: News
2015
| Date | Information |
|---|---|
| Feb. 2016 | Our paper "Sonifying Internet Security Threats" has been accepted in ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI), the top conference in HCI. The "late-breaking-work" paper is based on our NSF-funded research on security usability. The authors are: Akbar Siami Namin, Rattikorn Hewett, Keith Jones, Rona Pogrund. |
| October 2015 | The paper published by Alaa Darabseh and Akbar Namin at the International Conference of CyberWorlds (CW) received the best paper award. The title of the paper is "On Accuracy of Classification-based Keystroke Dynamics for Continuous User Authentication". The paper was published in the Biometric and Cybersecurity Session and presented in CW 2015, Gotland, Sweden. |
| October 2015 | A conference paper accepted for publication at the International Conference in Machine Learning Application (ICMLA). The title of the paper is "Predicting Vulnerable Software Components through N-gram Analysis and Statistical Feature Selection" authord by Yulei Pang, Xiaozhen Xue, and and Akbar Namin. |
| October 2015 | A conference paper accepted for publication at the International Conference in Machine Learning Application (ICMLA). The title of the paper is "Effective User Authentications Using Keystroke Dynamics Based on Feature Selections" authord by Alaa Darabseh and Akbar Namin. |
| October 2015 | A conference paper accepted for publication at the International Conference in Machine Learning Application (ICMLA). The title of the paper is "Statistical Fault Localization based on Importance Sampling" authord by Dr. Akbar Namin. |
| August 2015 | A Journal paper in the Journal of Educational Technology and Society is accepted for publication with minor revision. "Consumer Perception of Cybersecurity Risks for Internet Users Who are Visually Impaired", Authors: Fethi Inan, Akbar Siami Namin, Rona Pogrund, and Keith Jones. |
| July 2015 | There is a postdoc fellowship position in cybersecurity area starting September 2015. The position is for one year. Please contact Dr. Namin for more information. |
| July 2015 | Dr. Namin and his collaborator received the excellence grant from Texas Tech Alumni Association (TTAA). The title of the project is "Texas Tech University Virtual Life," with a total budget of $10,000. The project is for one year. |
| July 2015 | Dr. Namin (PI) and his collaborators received a good news from the NSF program director regarding recommending one of their proposals for funding. The project is titled "CyberCorps: Building Capacity in cyber Security through Competition-based Training and Enhancing Defending Skill Sets," is for two years. The total budget is $348,732.00. |
| June 2015 | Dr. Namin was elected as a member of the Grievance Committee of the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. |
| June 2015 | Alaa Darabseh a PhD student successfuly defended his Ph.D. Dissertation. Alaa's thesis was on "Keystroke Dynamics for Active User Authentications." Congratulations Alaa. |
| May 2015 | Dr. Namin is tenured and promoted to Associate Professor (Effective September 2015). |
| May 2015 | A Journal paper in the Journal of Software is published and it is online now. "Debugging in Parallel", Authors: Yulei Pang, Xiaozhen Xue, Akbar Siami Namin. |
| May 2015 | A conference paper got accepted. Alaa Darabseh, Akbar Siami Namin, On Accuracy of Keystroke Authentications Based on Commonly Used English Words, 14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), September, 2015 Darmstadt, Germany. |
| May 2015 | A poster paper got accepted. Sara Sartoli and Akbar Siami Namin, Reasoning based on Imperfect Context Data in Adaptive Security, in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Firenze, Italy, 2015. |
| May 2015 | Dr. Namin was appointed as the chair for faculty search committee for the2015-2016 academic year. Dr. Namin and the faculty search committee will be responsible for hiring four new faculty in the area of Big Data. Software Engineering, and Computer Science in general. Two out of four positions will be for Big Data initiative and the remaining two will be for senior/junior positions in Software engineering, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science. |
| May 2015 | Dr. Namin received an invitation to an NSF panel for reviewing proposals. |
| April 2015 | A conference paper got accepted.Akbar Siami Namin, Rattikorn Hewett, and Fethi Inan, Faculty Development Programs on Cybersecurity for Community Colleges - An Experience and Lessons Learned Report from a Two-Year Education Project, 6th Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT 2015), 5 - 6 October 2015 - Singapore. |
| April 2015 | A conference paper got accepted. Alaa Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, On Accuracy of Classification-based Keystroke Dynamics for Continuous User Authentication, International Workshop on Biometric Secrurity in Conjunction with 2015 International Conference on CyberWorlds, Gotland, Sweden, 2015. |
| March 2015 | Abdullah Moquim a MS student successfuly defended his Master's project. Abdullah's thesis was on "Mutation Testing of Scada Systems." Congratulations Abdullah. |
| March 2015 | A workshop paper got accepted. Alaa Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, “Keystroke Active Authentications Based on Most Frequently Used Words,” International workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (SPA), Col-located with ACM CODASPY 2015, March 2015, San Antonio, TX, USA. |
| January 2015 | Dr. Namin (PI) and his collaborators received a new NSF grant. The funded project is titled "I-Corps: Developing Instructional Technology in Cybersecurity," is deigned for six months. The total budget is $50,000. |
2014
| Date | Information |
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| June 2014 | A journal paper is published in the Journal of JSM Computer Science and Engineering. The title of the paper is "Measuring the Energy Efficiency Ratio of Parallelized Software Applications." The authors are: Delbert Bonner and Akbar Siami Namin |
| June 2014 | Xiaozhen Xue a PhD student successfuly defended his Ph.D. Dissertation. Xiaozhen's thesis was on "Statistical Fault Localizations." Congratulations Xiaozhen. His current position: A Research Scientist at Amazon. |
| May 2014 | A journal paper is pulibshed in the International Journal of Software Verification, Testing, and Reliability (STVR). The title of the paper is "MuRanker: A Mutation Ranking Tool." The authors are: Akbar Siami Namin, Xiaozhen Xue, Omar Rosa, Pankaj Sharma. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Xiaozehn Xue, Yulei Pang, and Akbar Siami Namin, “Feature Selections for Effectively Localizing Faulty Events in GUI Applications,” International Conference on Machine Learning and Application (ICMLA), Detroit, Michigan, 2014. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Fethi Inan and Akbar Siami Namin, “Evaluation of Cybersecurity Training: Exploring Participants’ Knowledge, Confidence, Satisfaction,” AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology, AECT International Convention Learning, Design, and Technology, November 2014, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Akbar Siami Namin, Fethi Inan, Rattikorn Hewett, “Building Cyber Security Instructional Plans Through Faculty Development Program - An Experience Report With Two and Four Year Educational Institutions”, 5th Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT 2014), 22nd - 23rd September 2014, Singapore. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Akbar Siami Namin, Fethi Inan, Rattikorn Hewett, “Stimulating Software Security Education at Community Colleges Through Training Workshops,” FECS'14 - The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, in conjunction with The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WorldComp'14), ISBN#:1-60132-271-2, July 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Yulei Pang, Xiaozhen Xue, and Akbar Siami Namin, “Trimming Test Suites with Coincidentally Correct Test Cases for Enhancing Fault Localizations,” COMPSAC 2014.. |
| May 2014 | A conference paper got accepted. Alaa Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, “The Accuracy of User Authentication through Keystroke Features Using Most Frequent Words,” The 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research (CISR) Conference, USA, 2014. |
| January 2014 | Dr. Namin (Co-PI) and his collaborators received a new NSF grant. The project titled "REU Site: Declarative Approaches to Knowledge Intensive Applications," is for three years with a total budget of $360,000.00. |
2013
| Date | Information |
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| September 2013 | Dr. Namin (Co-PI) and his collaborators recieved funding from Texas Tech University. The fund is part of the cybersecurity initiative to hire a postdoc for one year. The fund will be used to develop interdisciplinary projects with the involved departments. The total budget is close to $200,000. |
| September 2013 | Dr. Namin (Co-PI) and his collaborators recieved funding from Texas Tech University. The fund is part of the Big Data initiative. The total budget $1.8M. Through this project two new assistant professor positions will be created in the Department of Computer Science. |
| May 2013 | Dr. Namin (PI) and his collaborators recieved an NSF grant. The funded project titled "EAGER: Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC): Usability of Security features," is designed for 18 months. An additional of $16,000.00 also was supplemented for recruting undergraduate students working on this project. |
| February 2013 | A conference paper got accepted. Xiaozehn Xue and Akbar Siami Namin, “Identifying Effective Test Cases Through K-means Clustering for Enhancing Regression Testing,” International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Miami, Florida, 2013. |
| February 2013 | A conference paper got accepted. Xiaozhen Xue and Akbar Siami Namin, “How significant is the effect of fault interactions on coverage-based fault localizations,” International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Baltimore, USA, 2013. Acceptance rate 26%. |
| February 2013 | Paper by Xiaozhen Xue and Akbar Siami Namin: "Measuring the Odds of Statements Being Faulty" is accepted for publication in the European Conference on Ada-Europe, Reliable Software Technology to be held in Berlin, 2013 |
2012
| Date | Information |
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| 2012 | Dr. Namin received recognition as a "most Influential Professor" in 2012 by honor students in Computer Science undergraduate program. Dr. Namin received funding from ACM and NSF to attend the Symposium on Software Engineering Education (SEES) in conjunction with FSE 2012 to be held in Cary, NC, USA |
| 2012 | Dr. Namin and Dr. Hewett received an NSF grant titled were awarded $266,648 by the National Science Foundation. The title of the proposal was "SFS: Capacity Building: Collaborative Project: Cyber-security Education for Community College Faculty in Texas." |
| August 2012 | Delbert Bonner successfully defended his Master's thesis: A Parallel Software Energy Efficient Ratio. Congratulations Delbert. |
| July 2012 | Paper by Delbert Bonner and Akbar Siami Namin: An Energy Model for Applications Running on Multicore Systems is accepted for publication in the International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC) to be held in China |
| May 2012 | Pulkit Tomar successfully defended his Master's thesis on Test Input Generation for Parallel Applications. Congratulations Pulkit |
| May 2012 | Omar Rosas and Pankaj Sharma successfully defended their joint Masters project on Mutation Tool Support for Effective Testing. Congratulations Omar and Pankaj |
2011
| Date | Information |
|---|---|
| December 2011 | Tutorial: "Akbar Siami Namin:" Effective Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis of Software Engineering Data," International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2012 is accepted as a full day tutorial. The tutorial will be presented in the International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 2012, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| July 2011 | Abdullah Muquim, a Master’s student joins the AVESTA group. |
| June 2011 | Omary Rosas, Pankaj Sharma, Vinitha Subburaj, and Akbar Siami Namin took the second place award for their work on testing and fault localizing an industrial robot application. The work was awarded at the International Conference on Software Comprehension (ICPC) the Industrial Challenge Track and the title of the problem was: "Robots never Explode." The 2011 ICPC conference was held in Kingston, Canada. Congratulations guys for your excellent work. |
| May 2011 | Pratyusha Madiraju successfully defended her Master’s project, "Tool Support for Mutation Testing." Congratulations Pratyusha. |
| May 2011 | Paper: Akbar Siami Namin and Sahitya Kakarla: The use of mutation in testing experiments and its sensitivity to external threats is accepted for the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) in Toronto. |
| April 2011 | Omar Rosas, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| April 2011 | Pankaj Sharma, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| March 2011 | Shivshankar Kanawade, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| March 2011 | Delbert Bonner, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| February 2011 | Paper: Pratyusha Madiraju and Akbar Siami Namin: ParaMu − A Partial and Higher−Order Mutation Tool with Concurrency Operators is accepted for the International Workshop on Mutation (Mutation 2011) in Berlin. |
| February 2011 | Paper: Sahitya Kakarla, Selina Momotaz, and Akbar Siami Namin: An Evaluation of Mutation and Data-flow Testing: A Meta−Analysis is accepted for the International Workshop on Mutation (Mutation 2011) in Berlin. |
2010
| Date | Information |
|---|---|
| December 2010 | Kunjal Rathod successfully defended her Master’s project, "Tool Support for Testing Multi−threaded Applications." Congratulations Kunal. |
| October 2010 | Selina Momotaz successfully defended her Master’s thesis, "Tool Support for Testing Java Generics." Congratulations Selina. |
| October 2010 | Sahitya Kakarla successfully defended her Master’s thesis, "An Analysis of Parameters Influencing the Test Suites Effectiveness." Congratulations Sahitya. |
| October 2010 | Xiaozhen Xue, a Ph.D. student joined the AVESTA group. |
| October 2010 | Dr. Namin received $1000 travel support to attend FSE 2010 and SEES (Software Engineering Educators Symposium) in Santa Fe, NM, USA. The fund is jointly provided by NSF and ACM SIGSOFT. |
| September 2010 | Mohammad Siddique, a Ph.D. student, joined the AVESTA group. |
| September 2010 | Paper: Akbar Siami Namin, Barbara Millet, and Mohan Sridharan: Fast Abstract Paper: Stochastic Model−based Testing for Human−Robot Interaction, is accepted to be presented in the 21th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010), San Jose, USA. |
| September 2010 | Paper: Kunjal Rathod and Akbar Siami Namin: Fast Abstract Paper: A Framework for Testing Multithreaded Applications with Interleaving Faults, is accepted to be presented in the 21th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010), San Jose, USA. |
| August 2010 | Pratyusha Madiraju, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| August 2010 | Paper: Akbar Siami Namin and Mohan Sridharan: Position Paper: Bayesian Reasoning for Software Testing, is accepted to be presented in the International Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering (FoSER) in conjunction with the International Conference on Foundation of Software Engineering (FSE 2010), Santa Fe, USA. |
| August 2010 | Paper: Mohan Sridharan and Akbar Siami Namin: Prioritizing Mutation Operators Using Probabilistic Sampling, is accepted to be presented in the 21th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010), San Jose, USA. |
| July 2010 | Paper: Sahitya Kakarla and Akbar Siami Namin: The Influence of Environmental Parameters on Concurrency Fault Exposures − An Explanatory Study, is accepted to be presented in the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), Bolzano−Bozen, Italy. |
| May 2010 | Kunjal Rathod, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| March 2010 | Pulkit Tomar, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| February 2010 | Paper: "A.S. Namin, M. Sridharan, P. Tomar: Predicting Multi−Core Performance Using Solaris Containers: A Case Study" is accepted as a full paper to be presented in the third international workshop on Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE10) co−located with the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa. |
2009
| Date | Information |
|---|---|
| December 2009 | Dr. Namin received free registration support to attend ICSE 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa from ICSE organizers. |
| December 2009 | Tutorial: M. Sridharan and A.S. Namin: "Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis in Software Engineering" is accepted as a full−day tutorial to be presented at the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa. |
| September 2009 | Selina Momotaz, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| September 2009 | Sahitya Kakarla, a Master’s student joined the AVESTA group. |
| August 2009 | The AVESTA group is established. |
