WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Education
- Doctoral Degree, Purdue University
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2018. My work has been published in top-tier venues in software engineering, security, measurement, and web, such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, IEEE S&P, NDSS, IMC, and WWW. My contributions have been recognized with several awards, including N2Women Rising Stars in Networking and Communications (2024), University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award (2022), NSF CAREER Award (2021), Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award (2019), Mozilla Research Award (2019), and Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Research Award (2018).
Research Summary
I am broadly interested in software engineering, software security, computer systems, and machine learning. My work aims to build testing and analysis techniques for improving the reliability, security, and efficiency of complex software systems. My current projects include static/dynamic bug detection, program analysis for WebAssembly, attack investigation and detection, compiler testing, and performance profiling.
Awards
- 2024 N2Women Rising Stars in Networking and Communications
- 2022 University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award
- 2022 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) Best Poster Award
- 2021 NSF CAREER Award
- 2019 Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award
- 2019 Mozilla Research Award
- 2018 Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Research Award
