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Today the Professors Davis submitted their CAREER proposals and opened a bottle of champagne :-).

Happy Title IX training day.

🚀 Calling all Android developers! 🚀 We need your insights for our research on the Google Play Data Safety Section. Take a quick survey to help us improve developer support: umfragen.uni-paderborn.de/index.php/7851… Participation is voluntary, and no personal data will be collected.

SE research community: Please share this opportunity with the graduate students and prospective graduate students in your life :-). conf.researchr.org/track/icse-202…

My student Nick Eliopoulos will present a paper at WACV 2025, describing the non-linear relationship between latency and tokens for vision transformer optimization. TL;DR: Prune one more token and you might get a big latency benefit. More at: davisjam.medium.com/pruning-one-mo…

My student Dharun Anand presented at ASE'24, connecting the dots between some of his workshop papers. Great to connect the dots! TL;DR: FAIL helps us find and collate news articles about software failures. How could it help us engineer better? Blog post: davisjam.medium.com/fail-analyzing…

And the winner of the award for "worst grad admissions experience for profs submitting letters" goes to ... CMU!

My lab published this paper in JSS. It's behind a paywall because I didn't have $3500, but here's a link anyone can use for 50 days! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #openscience

The US is a representative democracy. The legislative branch is constituted of representatives who (at least nominally) act in the interests of their constituents. It is the duty of US citizens to inform their representatives of their views. Today I did so. Did you?

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Advice: If you are good at standardized tests and are applying to STEM grad school, then you should take the GRE and include your scores.

I share the following advice from Lamport with many students. Now I share it with you. lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-the…

For the fourth consecutive year, #PurdueECE's graduate programs are in the top ten in U.S. News & World Report! The EE and CmpE programs ranked #9 in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Details: bit.ly/rankings25-ece

My student Kelechi Kalu led a paper on software signing to USENIX Security'25. It was a great qualitative complement to my group's quantitative study at S&P'24. Kelechi's blog post writeup is available here: davisjam.medium.com/an-industry-in…

Some thoughts about novelty claims in systems research: davisjam.medium.com/essential-vs-a…

A team of #PurdueECE students has built a record-breaking machine that solves a RUBIK’S Cube faster than the blink of an eye 👁️! Congrats to Brock Berta, Aden Hurd, Junpei Ota, & Matthew Patrohay on this remarkable achievement! Come see the machine today (Fri) until 3 in MSEE!

My student AmPaschal recently presented his work "ZTDJava" at ICSE. He brought a new perspective to securing systems with third-party components, based on NIST's Zero-Trust Architecture paradigm. Here's a blog post summarizing the work: davisjam.medium.com/mitigating-sof…

"The paper is well-written and a joy to read" -- Reviewer 2 Rating: Reject -- Also Reviewer 2.

My student Berk Çakar co-led a paper at AsiaCCS 2025 that provides a Systematization of Knowledge (SOK) on Regex Denial of Service. This paper includes a literature review as well as an "engineering review" of regex engine changes. Read more: davisjam.medium.com/sok-a-literatu…

Two #PurdueECE PhD students won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for research that makes formal software verification faster, easier, and more secure, uncovering 20 hidden bugs and aiming to bring this powerful technique to everyday developers. bit.ly/ece-qfellow