EASE 2025, Artefacts/Models (AI models and/or Data) track (co-)Chair
"The 3rd International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management" (SVM 2025) co-located with ICSE 2025, Co-organizer together with Prof. M. Ali Babar & Dr. Joanna C. S. Santos
"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
2026
ICSE 2026, PC member in the Research track
2025
ICSE 2025, Shadow PC member in the Research track
EASE 2025, PC member in the Research track
FSE 2025, PC member in the AI IDE workshop
MSR 2025, PC member in the Technical track
SANER 2025, PC member in the Research track
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
Note that the Impact factor and SJR rating of the journals were last updated in 2024.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Impact factor: 7.4 (SJR Q1)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Journal, Impact factor: 4.4 (SJR Q1)
Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Impact factor: 2.522 (SJR Q1)
Journal of Software and Systems, Impact factor: 3.514 (SJR Q1)
Automated Software Engineering Journal, Impact factor: 1.677 (SJR Q2)
Information and Software Technology Journal, Impact factor: 3.862 (SJR Q1)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Impact factor: 6.77 (SJR Q1)
ACM Computing Surveys Journal, Impact factor: 14.324 (SJR Q1)
Applied Intelligence Journal, Impact factor: 5.019 (SJR Q2)
Frontiers of Computer Science, Impact factor: 2.32 (SJR Q2)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Impact factor: 9.47 (SJR Q1)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Impact factor: 9.14 (SJR Q1)
PhD Students (I am actively recruiting)
Ziyang Ye, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar, March 2025 - now. Topic: Towards AI-Driven Security Enhancement for Infrastructure as Code. Publication: MSR 2025.
Jinyang Li, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar and Sangwon Hyun, March 2025 - now. Topic: Soft Prompt Protection Against Adversrial Attack For Large Language Model Application.
The Anh Nguyen, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar, Oct 2024 - now. Topic: Automated Discovery and Analysis of Security-related Technical Debt. Publication: ESEM 2024.
Mehdi Kholoosi, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar, March 2022 - now. Topic: Developing Cybersecurity Threat Detection and Prediction Framework using Natural Language Processing. Publications: SANER 2022, ICSE 2023, CNS 2023, TrustCom 2024.
Ali Kazemi Arani, co-supervise with Prof. M. Ali Babar & Dr. Mansooreh Zahedi, July 2021 - now. Topic: Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning Methods for Optimizing Software Delivery in DevOps Architecture. Publications: ICSE-SoftwareSecurity 2023, IEEE Access 2024.
Master/Internship Students
Ziyang Ye - Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Feb 2024 - now. Topic: Knowledge Graph and Large Language Model Based Approach for Automated Secured Container Orchestrator Configuration.
Guanqiao Huang - Master of Computer Science, Feb 2024 - now. Topic: Impact of Auto-Labeling for Just-in-Time Software Vulnerability Prediction.
Tung Hoang Thai - Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, April 2023 - Nov 2023. Topic: Large Language Models for Data-Driven Software Vulnerability Prediction.
Tuan Lu Dinh - Master of Data Science, Feb 2023 - Nov 2023. Topic: Data Augmentation for Data-Driven Software Security.
Pavithra Bharatham Rengarajan - Master of Machine Learning, Feb 2023 - July 2023. Topic: Development of Security Plugin for Vscode.
Puneet Valad - Master of Computing and Innovation, Aug - Oct 2022. Topic: Development of Security Plugin for Vscode.
Summer Students 2020 (CREST @ UofA & CSCRC)
Xin Chen, Moyang Feng, and Wei Zhang, Automated Security Assessment for Interconnected Systems. Publication: "Automated Security Assessment for Interconnected Systems" in PRDC '21.
Chirag Thakkar and Huy Quang Ngo, Security database mapping for meaningful mitigation
Chuyue Qin & Xiaowei Wang, Comparison of deep learning methods for managing security patches
Honours Project (CSCRC)
David Hin, Dynamic tracking of security vulnerabilities in open-source repositories, 2020
Software Engineering Research Project 2020 (Computer Science School @ UofA & CSCRC)
David Hin, Jocelyn Tan, and Justin Lee, 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
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Secure Programming (Trimester 2, 2025, Semester 2, 2025)
Software Engineering Research Project (Semesters 1 & 2 - 2023/2024/2025)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Project Part A & B (Trimester 3, 2024)
Algorithm Design and Data Structures (Semester 2, 2024)
Software Engineering Research Project (Semester 2 - 2022)
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Software Engineering Research Project (Semester 1 - 2019/2022)
Software Architecture (Semester 2 - 2020/2021)
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)
CREST - Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Key contributor to the multi-million-dollar project Software Security with a Focus on Critical Technologies, funded by the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Australia
Co-leading the research on "Trustworthy datasets for software security analytics"
Contributing to the research on "AI-enabled security plug-ins for IDEs"
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)