Professional Activities
Programme Committee
2024
ICSE 2024, PC Member in the Demo track
MSR 2024, PC Member in the Technical track
SANER 2024, PC member in the Research track
2023
ICSE 2023, PC Member in the SCORE track
MSR 2023, PC Member in the Technical track
SANER 2023, PC member in the Research track
2022
MSR4P&S workshop co-located with FSE 2022, PC Member
MSR 2022, PC Member in the Technical track, Shadow PC, Data/Tool Showcase track
2021
MSR 2021, PC Member in the Technical track
2020
MSR 2020, Sub-reviewer in the Technical track
EASE 2020, PC Member in the Artefacts track
2019
EASE 2019, Sub-reviewer in the Technical track
Organizing Committee
"The 2nd International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management" (SVM 2024) co-located with ICSE 2024, Co-organizer together with Prof. M. Ali Babar & Prof. Awais Rashid & EnCyCriS team
"The 1st International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management" (SVM 2023) co-located with ICSE 2023, Co-organizer together with Prof. M. Ali Babar & Prof. Awais Rashid
SANER 2023, Session Chair of Code Review Session
MSR 2023, Session Chair of Session 10: Security
ASWEC & ALCSI 2018, Student volunteer coordinator
Journal Reviewer
2023
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Journal, Impact factor: 4.4 (SJR Q1)
ACM Computing Surveys Journal, Impact factor: 14.324 (SJR Q1)
Information and Software Technology Journal, Impact factor: 3.862 (SJR Q1)
Automated Software Engineering Journal, Impact factor: 1.677 (SJR Q2)
Applied Intelligence Journal, Impact factor: 5.019 (SJR Q2)
Frontiers of Computer Science, Impact factor: 2.32 (SJR Q2)
2022
Journal of Software and Systems, Impact factor: 3.514 (SJR Q1)
Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Impact factor: 2.522 (SJR Q1)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Impact factor: 6.77 (SJR Q1)
Applied Intelligence Journal, Impact factor: 5.019 (SJR Q2)
2021
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Impact factor: 9.47 (SJR Q1)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Impact factor: 9.14 (SJR Q1)
Frontiers of Computer Science, Impact factor: 2.32 (SJR Q2)
Social Media Coordinator
Student Supervision
PhD Students
Mehdi Kholoosi, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar, March 2022 - now
Ali Kazemi Arani, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar & Dr. Mansooreh Zahedi, July 2021 - now
Internships/Other Projects
Large Language Models for Data-Driven Software Vulnerability Prediction (Tung Hoang Thai, Master of Machine Learning), April 2023 - now
Data Augmentation for Data-Driven Software Security (Tuan Lu Dinh, Master of Data Science), Feb 2023 - now
Development of Security Plugin for Vscode (Pavithra Bharatham Rengarajan, Master of Machine Learning), Feb 2023 - July 2023
Development of Security Plugin for Vscode (Puneet Valad, Master of Computing and Innovation), Aug-Oct 2022
Summer Projects 2020 (CREST @ UofA & CSCRC)
Automated Security Assessment for Interconnected Systems (Xin Chen, Moyang Feng, and Wei Zhang). Accepted paper: "Automated Security Assessment for Interconnected Systems" in PRDC '21.
Security database mapping for meaningful mitigation (Chirag Thakkar and Huy Quang Ngo)
Comparison of deep learning methods for managing security patches (Chuyue Qin & Xiaowei Wang)
Honours Project (CSCRC)
Dynamic tracking of security vulnerabilities in open-source repositories (David Hin), 2020
Software Engineering Research Project 2020 (Computer Science School @ UofA & CSCRC)
VulDoctor: A Web Application for Tracking Vulnerable Dependencies - The app aims to identify, analyze & visualize vulnerable dependencies and libraries in user’s code/commits on-the-fly.
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=vxYQBAEYFmQ, Poster: bit.ly/VulDoctor
Software Engineering Research Project 2019 (Computer Science School @ UofA)
Provide academic supervision for 7 projects with 21 undergrad students in Software Engineering, Cybersecurity and Machine Learning
Lecturer
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Software Engineering Research Project (Semesters 1 & 2 - 2023)
Software Engineering Research Project (Semester 2 - 2022)
Associate Lecturer
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Software Engineering Research Project (Semester 1 - 2022)
Software Architecture (Semester 2 - 2021)
Software Architecture (Semester 2 - 2020)
Software Process Improvement (Semester 1 - 2020)
Secure Software Engineering (Semester 2 - 2019)
Software Engineering Research Project (Semester 1 - 2019)
International University - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Data Structures and Algorithms (Semester 2 - 2016/2017)
Object-Oriented Programming (Semester 1 - 2015/2016)
Research Assistant
4/2022 - 8/2022: Research Assistant at Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) - The University of Adelaide
Responsibility: conducted research on impact of data quality and size on software vulnerability prediction models
1/2016 - 7/2018: Research Assistant in the Multi-Species Multi-Channel (MSMC) Laboratory – International University
Responsibility: developed pre-processing and post-processing modules for the MSMC-GUI program, research machine learning algorithms in Hindered Internal Rotation determination
6/2015 - 4/2017: Research Assistant in the Smart Data Lab – International University
Responsibility: developed a collaborative online video annotation framework based on consensus algorithms as well as the integration of GoodRelations ontology
Funding: International University (4/2016 – 4/2017)