06/03/2025 Our paper entitled "Trick or Treat: A Study of Human Detection of Manipulative Tactics in Phishing Emails" has been accepted at SENSEI 2025.
05/30/2025 Our paper entitled "An Empirical Study on the Evolution and Vulnerabilities of Maven Artifacts" has been accepted at CSCE 2025.
05/27/2025 Champa and Rabbi both received the Summer Research/Creative Activity Grant from ISU Graduate School.
05/02/2025 Dr. Zibran has been awarded with the NASA EPSCoR Faculty Fellowship.
04/29/2025 Our paper "Faster Releases, Fewer Risks: A Study on Maven Artifact Vulnerabilities and Lifecycle Management" received the Best Paper Award at the MSR 2025 mining challenge track.
04/29/2025 Champa received the Distinguished Junior Reviewer Award at MSR 2025 in Ottawa, Canada.
04/11/2025 Champa won the "Student Employee of the Year 2025" runner up award from the ISU Career Center. Congratulations Champa!
03/19/2025 Rabbi received the Best Oral Presentation Award in Engineering, Physical, & Mathematical Sciences at the ISU Research and Creative Works Symposium.
02/24/2025 Our paper entitled "The Popularity Paradox: Insights into Vulnerabilities and Updates in Maven Ecosystem" has been accepted at ICoSSE 2025.
02/21/2025 Our paper entitled "GreekNet: Handwritten Greek Alphabet Recognition Using Explainable Parallel CNN with Attention Mechanisms" has been accepted at ICMI 2025.
02/11/2025 Champa receives the ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Award. Congratulations, Champa!
02/11/2025 Champa and Rabbi represented ISU at the state-wide 3MT (three-minutes thesis) competition at Idaho Falls, 2025.
02/11/2025 Champa and Rabbi have been awarded Conference and Research Travel Grants from the Graduate School, ISU. Congratulations to both!
02/11/2025 Dr. Zibran is invited at the Idaho Academic Leadership Academy to be held in Boise during June 9-13, 2025.
01/28/2025 Dr. Zibran is nominated for the Distinguished Service Award at ISU.
01/12/2025 Seven papers of ours have been accepted at the mining challenge track of MSR 2025.
01/06/2025 Our paper entitled "Dealing with Dependency: How Dependencies Shape Release Frequency in the Maven Ecosystem" is accepted at ICoSSE 2025.
12/13/2024 Two papers entitled "Security and Privacy for LLMs and LMMs Across Key Sectors: A Literature Survey" and "Password Security in Practice: An Appraisal Using Users' Perception and Machine Learning" are accepted at ITNG 2025.
12/03/2024 Dr. Zibran has been selected as an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program, which includes travel support to the US-RSE (United States Research Software Engineer) conference in Philadelphia, PA in October 2025.
11/21/2024 Our paper entitled "Claim vs. Capability: A Comparative Analysis of the SBOM Generation Tools for Rust Projects, " has been accepted at ACM SAC 2025.
11/14/2024 Champa and Rabbi secured the 2nd and 3rd Place respectively at 8th university-wide annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition at ISU.
08/19/2024 Dr. Rajshakhar Paul joins our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome aboard Dr. Paul!
08/01/2024 Our paper entitled "Deep Enough? On the Effectiveness of Deep Learning in Phishing Email Detection," has been accepted at AIBThings 2024.
06/27/2024 Our paper entitled "Revolutionizing Crop Leaf Disease Detection: A Novel Ensemble Learning Framework Using Customized EfficientNets" received the 3rd Best Paper Award at ISPR 2024.
05/24/2024 Dr. Zibran delivered a keynote speech at ICAETA 2024.
05/14/2024 Our poster presented by Costain Nachuma won the Best Poster Award at i-ETC 2024 hosted by the Utah State University. Congratulations Costain!
05/07/2024 A paper entitled "Revolutionizing Crop Leaf Disease Detection: A Novel Ensemble Learning Framework Using Customized EfficientNets" has been accepted at ISPR 2024.
04/20/2024 Dr. Zibran presented a keynote speech at ICoSSE 2024.
04/08/2024 Two papers, "Analyzing ChatGPT Assistance in Programming" and "Illustration or Illusion? Reassessing the Use of Machine Learning in Phishing Email Detection", have been accepted at SERA 2024.
04/05/2024 Rabbi won "2nd runner-up for Student Employee of the Year 2024" award from the ISU Career Center. Congratulations Rabbi!
03/29/2024 A paper entitled "Autonomous Surveillance Breakthrough by Implementing Facial Recognition in Dog Robots" has been accepted at i-ETC 2024.
03/13/2024 Costain has won the award for the Best Oral Presentation in Engineering, Physical, & Mathematical Sciences at the ISU Research and Creative Works Symposium. Congratulations, Costain!
02/21/2024 A paper entitled "Breaking the Mold: ViT-CNN Fusion for Enhanced Glaucoma Prediction Using Machine Learning Classifiers in OCT Images" has been accepted at ICAISC 2024.
02/15/2024 A paper entitled "Curated Datasets and Feature Analysis for Phishing Email Detection with Machine Learning" has been accepted at ICMI 2024.
02/15/2024 A paper entitled "Improving Source Code with Assistance from AI - A Pilot Case Study with ChatGPT" has been accepted at ICICT 2024.
02/07/2024 A paper entitled "Why Phishing Emails Escape Detection: A Closer Look at the Failure Points" has been accepted at ISDFS 2024.
01/23/2024 A paper entitled "A Quantitative Analysis of Quality and Consistency in AI-generated Code" has been accepted at ICoSSE 2024.
01/19/2024 Two of our papers, "AI Writes, We Analyze: The ChatGPT Python Code Saga" and "ChatGPT in Action: Analyzing Its Use in Software Development", have been accepted at MSR 2024!
01/12/2024 Our paper, "A Four-Dimension Gold Standard Dataset for Opinion Mining in Software Engineering", has been accepted at MSR 2024!
12/22/2023 Champa and Rabbi have been awarded MS degrees in Computer Science. Congratulations to both!
12/07/2023 Dr. Zibran received the Fall 2023 CPI Supervisor of the Semester runner-up award among 70+ nominations.
11/24/2023 Our paper titled "SBOM Generation Tools Under Microscope: A Focus on the npm Ecosystem" has been accepted at ACM SAC 2024.
11/09/2023 Champa presented her research at 7th annual ISU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.
08/01/2023 Costain Nachuma joins our team as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Costain!
08/01/2023 Arifa Islam Champa has been named the Career Path Intern for the month of August! Congratulations Champa!
06/23/2023 Our research has been featured in a local newspaper!
06/20/2023 Our research, "Insights into Female Contributions in Open-Source Projects", has been featured in Idaho State University news!
05/24/2023 Champa and Rabbi presented two papers at SERA 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
05/16/2023 Dr. Zibran presented a paper at MSR 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.
03/27/2023 Two of our papers have been accepted at SERA 2023!
03/15/2023 Champa and Rabbi presented two research posters at the ISU Graduate Research Symposium 2023.
03/07/2023 Our paper has been accepted at MSR Mining Challenge 2023!
02/22/2023 TechGuide has published a short interview with Dr. Zibran about the importance of a software engineering degree.