The ReSeSS Research Lab
The Reliable, Secure, and Sustainable Software Lab (ReSeSS) develops solutions that enable construction of reliable software in an efficient manner. Our current focus is on security and integrity of mobile and cloud-based systems, as well as robustness, explainability, and fairness of AI systems.
Our work relies on program analysis, formal methods, ML, and empirical software engineering. We typically start from exploratory studies, investigating existing practices and core challenges. We then develop solutions for the identified challenges and evaluate them in a practical setup.
I am extremely grateful to have our research supported by NSERC, CFI, Mitacs, IBM, Samsung, Huawei, and Meta.
Our current projects evolve around four main areas:
Mobile Software
Security and privacy, malware detection, quality, testability.
Compositional Software Development
Testing and debugging, developer productivity, integration failures, upgrade inconsistencies.
Microservice-based Cloud Software
Architecture and design, security, reliability, performance.
Trustworthy ML Algorithms
Adversarial robustness, explainability and interpretability, fairness, ML in software systems.Team
Current Students
- Khaled E. Ahmed, PhD, 9/2017-present (co-supervised with Prof. Lis)
- Sahar Badihi, PhD, 9/2018-present
- Yingying Wang, PhD, 5/2019-present
- Faridah Akinotcho, MASc, 5/2021-present
- Michael Tegegn, MASc, 9/2021-present
- Sarah Bornais, MASc, 9/2023-present
- Hanan Awwad, MASc, 1/2023-present
- Xiaomeng (Nicole) Nie, BASc (ECE), 9/2023-present
- Louie Tang, BASc (ECE), 1/2024-present
Former Students
- Asem Ghaleb, PhD, 9/2018-8/2023 (co-supervised with Prof. Pattabiraman since 9/2020)
- Yingying Wang, MASc, 5/2017-4/2019
- Duling Lai, MASc, 1/2017-7/2019
- Junbin Zhang, MASc, 9/2017-7/2020
- Harshavardhan Kadiyala, MASc, 9/2017-12/2021
- Michael Cao, MASc, 1/2019-12/2021
- Peiyu (Gabby) Xiong, MASc, 9/2019-12/2022
- Sugun Machipeddy, MEng project, 9/2018-12/2018
- Armaan Bajwa, MEng project, 1/2019-4/2019
- Yonghan Zhou, MEng project, 5/2019-12/2019
- Rajdeep Kambo, BASc (ECE), USRA, 5/2017-8/2017
- Yanjun Wu (UofT), BSc, summer intern, 5/2017-8/2017
- Bo Hu, BASci (ECE), USRA, 5/2017-8/2017, directed studies, 1/2018-4/2018
- Alexandre Krattinger, BASc, directed studies, 1/2018-4/2018
- Simong Song, BASci (ECE), directed studies, 1/2018-4/2018
- Soumyadeep Thakur, BSc, Mitacs summer intern, 5/2018-8/2018
- Dhruv Rathi, BSc, Shastri summer intern, 5/2018-8/2018
- Catherine Lee, BASc (ECE), USRA, 5/2018-8/2018, undergraduate thesis 9/2018-12/2018
- Michael Cao, BASc (ECE), undergraduate thesis, 5/2018-12/2018
- Alexander Julianto (ECE), BASc, undergraduate thesis, 9/2018-12/2018
- Manolis Ioannides, BASc (ECE), undergraduate thesis, 1/2019-4/2019
- Linh Tran, BSci (CS), WLIURA, 5/2019-8/2019
- Guanxiong Chen, BASc (ECE), USRA, 5/2019-8/2019
- Shu Xin, BSc, Mitacs summer intern, 7/2018-9/2019
- Angeli Corpin, BSc (CS), directed studies, 5/2019-12/2019
- Lucy Zhao, BASc (ECE), undergraduate thesis, 9/2019-12/2019
- Ao Tang, BASc (ECE), undergraduate thesis, 9/2019-12/2019
- Will Zhang, BSc (CS), directed studies, 9/2019-12/2019
- Alberto Misail, BASc (EngPhys), research experience, 9/2019-4/2020
- Lisa Kirby, BASc (ECE), USRA, undergraduate thesis, 5/2019-5/2021
- Lirukshman Sundaralingam, BSc (CS), co-op, 5/2020-12/2020
- Shreyans Kulshrestha, BASc (ECE), research experience, 1/2021-4/2021
- Bowen Luo, BASc (EngPhys), research experience, 9/2020-4/2021
- Jingyang Sun, BASc (ECE), research experience, WLIURA, 1/2021-8/2021
- Marco Ser, BASc (ECE), USRA, 5/2021-8/2021
- Michael Fu, BASc (ECE), research experience, 9/2021-12/2021
- Danica Xiao, BASc (ECE), research experience, 9/2021-4/2022
- John Ahn, BSc (CS), research experience, USRA, directed studies, 1/2021-8/2022
- Saurav Banna, BSc (CS), research experience, 5/2022-8/2022
- Yang Hu, BSc (CS), Mitacs summer intern, 6/2022-9/2022
- Ramit Kataria, BSc (CS), research experience, 9/2022-12/2022
- Bowei Ren, BASc (ECE), research experience, 9/2022-12/2022
- Sijan Poudel, BASc (ECE), research experience, 9/2022-12/2022
- Shubhraneel Pal, BSc (CS), Mitacs intern, 5/2022-12/2022
- Evelien Boerstra, BSc (CS), USRA, directed studies, research experience, 5/2020-12/2022 (Honorable Mention, 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher)
- Zyad Ben-Suleiman, BASc (ECE), research experience, 1/2023-6/2023
- Sarah Bornais, BASc (ECE), undergraduate thesis, 1/2023-7/2023
- Pranab Pandey, BSc (CS), Mitacs intern, 5/2023-7/2023
- Siddharth Gupta, BSc (CS), Mitacs intern, 5/2023-8/2023
- Akira Tong, BSc (CS), USRA, 5/2023-8/2023
- Jaskeerat Sarin, BSc (CS), research experience, WLIURA, 5/2022-8/2023
- Kevin Liu, BSc (CS), research experience, USRA, 1/2023-8/2023
- Aadya Agrawal, BSc (CS), Mitacs intern, 5/2023-8/2023
Lab Info
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Internal information for lab members is here.