Welcome to the Software Engineering and Cybersecurity Research Team (SECReT) at the Idaho State University, established in 2022.
Our research in software engineering and cybersecurity fights software bugs and security vulnerabilities using program code analysis and manipulation while also taking into account the human factors that affect software quality. Our research methodology involves static (and dynamic) program analysis, source code manipulation, sentiment analysis, machine learning, empirical studies, prototype development, and evaluations.
To enumerate, our research interests include (but not limited to) the following.
Software Security
Usable Security & HCI
Software Quality Assurance
Program Analysis
Program Comprehension
Affective Computing
Empirical Software Engineering
Applied AI and Machine Learning
Software
Engineering and
Cybersecurity
Research
Team
News
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 "From Code to Coders: Towards Secure and Reliable Software Systems" 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 for presentation 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 for presentation at MSR Mining Challenge 2023!