SEAL Members

Sam Malek
Director

Syed Fatiul Huq
PhD Candidate

Ziyao (Stephen) He
PhD Student

Congyu (Jeff) Luo
PhD Student

Moumita Asad
PhD Student

Rafed Muhammad Yasir
MS Student

Shubhi Jain
MS Student

Alumni Postdoctoral Associates

• Joshua Garcia
  First employment: Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
• Hamid Bagheri
  First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Yonghee Shin
  First employment: Software Engineer, Folio Investing

Alumni PhD Students

• Forough Mehralian
  "Automated Techniques for Improving the Accessibility of Android Applications for Screen Reader Users" 
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, July 2024
  
• Abdulaziz Alshayban
  "Automated Detection and Repair of Text Acccessibility Issues" 
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, March 2023
  First employment: Assistant Professor, King Saud University
• Navid Salehnamadi
  "Automated Assistive-Service Driven Accessbility Testing for Mobile Applications" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, December 2022
  First employment: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Tesla
• Negar Ghorbani
  "Validation and Verification fo Modular Constructs in Software Applications" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, August 2022
  First employment: Research Scientist, Meta
• Jun-Wei Lin
  "Advancing Automated Software Testing Through Test Reuse" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, September 2021
  First employment: Software Engineer, MGM Resorts International
• Reyhaneh Jabbarvand
  "Advancing Energy Testing of Android Apps" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, May 2020
  First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Mahmoud M. Hammad
  "Self-Protection of Android Systems from Inter-Component Communication Attacks" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, August 2018
  First employment: Assistant Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)
• Alireza Sadeghi
  "Efficient Permission-Aware Analysis of Android Applications" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, November 2017
  First employment: Software Engineer, Google Inc.
• Nariman Mirzaei
  "Automated Input Generation for Testing Android Applications" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, August 2016
  First employment: Videology
• Ehsan Kouroshfar
  "An Empirical Study of the Interplay between Architecture and Software Quality using Evolutionary History of Software" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, May 2016
  First employment: Appian Corporation
• Eric Yuan
  "Architecture-Based Self-Protecting Software Systems" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, May 2016
  First employment: Aerospace Corporation
• Riyadh Mahmoud
  "An Evolutionary Approach for Security Testing of Android Applications" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, August 2015
  First employment: Software Engineer, Harris Corporation
• Naeem Esfahani
  "Management of Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Software" [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, August 2014
  First employment: Software Engineer, Google Inc.
• Ahmed Elkhodary
  "A Learning-Based Approach for Engineering Feature-Oriented Self-Adaptive Software Systems." [PDF]
  PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, December 2011
  First employment: Software Architect, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Alumni MS Students

• Pooja Naresh Bhatia
  "A Historical Review of Web Accessiblity using WAVE" [PDF]
  MS Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, May 2023
  First employment: Software Engineer, Microsoft
• Faraz Yazdani
  "Deep-GUI: Towards Platform-Independent UI Input Generation with Deep Reinforcement Learning." [PDF]
  MS Thesis, Informatics Department, University of California, Irvine, August 2020
  First employment: PhD student, The Rockefeller University
• Deshan A. Cooray
  "Resisting Reliability Degradation through Proactive Reconfiguration." [PDF]
  MS Thesis, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, August 2010
  First employment: Software Engineer, Verisign Inc.