Research

Research Interests

***Looking for self-motivated students with good programming skills for both PhD and MS positions***.

My research interests lie in the area of requirements engineering (RE), with three main thrusts:

1. developing methods for capturing and evaluating creative software requirements (being funded by my NSF CAREER Award),
2. bridging RE and software testing, also known as “requirements engineering and testing (RET),” by examining the role of environment assumptions in testing activities, and
3. linking RE with secure software engineering through vulnerability predictions for software requirements.

My broader research interest is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning software engineering, psychology, AI, and cybersecurity. I leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs) with an aim to bridge the gaps between theory and practice and seek to develop automated solutions for RE-, testing, and cybersecurity-related problems.