I lead the Practical and Actionable Software Engineering Research (PASER) group at Tennessee Tech University. Members of the PASER group work on software engineering research problems that have real-world implications for practitioners. I am extremely pleased to work with members of the PASER group who are my students and collaborators.
Advisees
- Farzana Ahmed Bhuiyan (PhD Student, Tennessee Technological University, TN)
- Mohammad Shazibul Islam Shamim (PhD Student, Tennessee Technological University, TN)
- Justin Murphy (MSc Student, Tennessee Technological University, TN)
- Raunak Shakya (MSc Student, Tennessee Technological University, TN)
Collaborators
- Dibyendu Brinto Bose (PhD Student, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology)
- Effat Farhana (PhD Student, North Carolina State University)
- Jonathan Gibson (MSc Student, Tennessee Tech University)
- Mehedi Hassan (Software Engineer, Grameen Phone Bangladesh)
- Patrick Morisson (Software Engineer, IBM)
- Chris Parnin (Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University)
- Ambareen Siraj (Professor, Tennessee Tech University)
- Anthony Skjellum (Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Excellence, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC))
Alumni
- Anceito Rivera (Software Engineer, SAIC, TN)
Funding
- PI, Cybersecurity Mini Grant, National Science Foundation (Dec 2020 - Mar 2021) Amount: 5,000 USD. Co-PI: Dennis Ulybychev (Tennessee Technological University)
- PI, SaTC: TTP: Small: eSLIC: Enhanced Security Static Analysis for Detecting Insecure Configuration Scripts by National Science Foundation (NSF) (Oct 2020 - Sep 2023). Co-PI: Chris Parnin (NC State University) Amount: 444,720 USD (Total), 244,742 USD (Share of Tennessee Technological University). This grant well help devise techniques to make security static analysis actionable for configuration scripts.
- Co-PI, EDGE Curriculum Development Grant provided by Tennessee Technological University (Jan 2020 - May 2020) Amount: 5,000 USD. PI: Maanak Gupta (Tennessee Technological University)
Awards and Honors
- Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 Nominee for the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, NC State University
- Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 COE Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, NC State University
- Akond Rahman, 2019-2020 CSC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, NC State University
- Akond Rahman, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2019 - Technical Track
- Akond Rahman, ACM SIGSOFT Best Paper Award, ICSE 2018 - Doctoral Symposium
- Akond Rahman, Microsoft Open Source Challenge 2016 - Grand Prize
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Research Grant Review
- Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
- Reviewer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2020
Program Committee Assignment
- 26th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2021), Associate Program Chair
- Mining Software Repositories 2021 (MSR2021), PC Member - Technical Track
- SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2021 (SIGCSE 2021), PC Member
- IEEE International Workshop on Reliability and Security Data Analysis (RSDA 2020), PC Member
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering 2020 (ASE 2020), PC Member - Late Breaking Results Track
- IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution 2020 (ICSME 2020), PC Member
- 25th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2020), PC Member
- Cyber Security Symposium 2020 (Cybersec2020), PC Member
- ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering 2020 (ESEC/FSE 2020), PC Member - Industry Track
- Mining Software Repositories 2020 (MSR2020), PC Member - Mining Challenge Track
Reviewer
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2020
- Information Technology and Management 2020
- Science of Computer Programming 2020
- IEEE Access 2020
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2020, 2021
- IEEE Software 2018, 2019, 2020
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 2019, 2020
- International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2017 and 2019
- Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2019 - Industry Track
- International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2019
- International Conference on Secure Development (SecDev) 2019
- Communications of the ACM (CACM) 2019
- Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security Symposium (HotSoS) 2019
- International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2019 - Industry Track
- International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2015, 2018
- International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) 2018
- International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE) 2018
- International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD) 2018
- International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2017
- Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2017
Dissertation Committee Assignment
- Md. Shazibul Islam Shamim (Ph.D.), Tennessee Technological University, Chair
- Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan (Ph.D.), Tennessee Technological University, Chair
- Justin Murphy (M.Sc.), Tennessee Technological University, Chair
- Raunak Shakya (M.Sc.), Tennessee Technological University, Chair
- Rajesh Manicavasagam (Ph.D.), Tennessee Technological University, Member
- Sherif Albdelfattah (Ph.D.), Tennessee Technological University, Member
- Andrew McDole (M.Sc.), Tennessee Technological University, Member
- Debolina Halder Lina (M.Sc.), Tennessee Technological University, Member
- Grant Ongers (M.Sc.), Rhodes University, South Africa, External Examiner