Doctoral Symposium Program
Wednesday, October 30th
(16:00 - 16:30)
Session Chair: Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra
Automated Interpretation of Fleetpool Incidents to Enable System Level Runtime Assurance
Tihomir Rohlinger
Search-Based White-Box Fuzzing of Web Frontend Applications
Iva Kertusha
Reliable Online Log Parsing Using Large Language Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hansae Ju
(16:30 - 17:40) Panel: Generative AI and a New Academic Reality: Challenges and Opportunities for PhD Students
Summary: This discussion will explore the advantages and disadvantages that tools like ChatGPT and Copilot bring to students, particularly PhD students and researchers. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of how these technologies impact academic work, research productivity, and the overall learning experience.
Panelist: Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan
Short bio: Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics.
He also works in the industry as Outside Director of eXmotion. He serves as President-Elect 2024 (and President 2025) of the IEEE Computer Society to lead its activities and future directions.
He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T),
Advisory Committee Member of the IEEE CS flagship conference COMPSAC, and Steering Committee Member of the ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware).
He has led software engineering research and ICT professional and educational activities, including developing the IEEE-CS’s Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide).
He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in software design, reuse, traceability, quality assurance, and machine learning engineering.
Recent achievements include IoT design patterns and machine learning design patterns. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called SmartSE. http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/washizaki/
Panelist: Marco Vieira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Short bio: Marco Vieira is currently a Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC).
He earned his Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research interests include dependability and security assessment and benchmarking; fault, vulnerability and attack injection; failure prediction; static and dynamic software analysis,
and trustworthy computing. In these fields, he has authored or co-authored over 230 papers in refereed conferences and journals. He has participated in and coordinated several national and international research projects.
Marco Vieira is currently the Chair of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
He is the Steering Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) and a member of the Steering Committees of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) and the Latin-American Symposium on Dependable and Secure Computing (LADC).
He has also served as Program Chair on the program committees of major conferences in the dependability area.
Panelist: Lishan Yang, George Mason University, USA
Short bio: Lishan Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. She received a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science at William & Mary in 2022 and her bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016.
Her research interest mainly falls in system reliability, GPU architecture, and HPC. Her research work is published in top conferences and journals such as SIGMETRICS, ICSE, MICRO, DSN, ISSRE.
She is the receipt of Best Reviewer Award (ICPE 2024), SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award (2022), and Graduate Park Award (William & Mary 2022).
Short bio: Helen Paik is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, where she also leads the Software Engineering research group and serves as a Work Package Lead in the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre. Her research focuses on distributed software systems, privacy and security in software systems, cyber-physical systems, blockchain, and digital identities. Helen has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers across these domains. She is an experienced educator in data management and web applications and has successfully led numerous industry collaborations through Cooperative Research Centres and Industry-based PhD programs, delivering impactful, practical outcomes. She is a senior member of IEEE and serves as chair on technical committees for many international conferences, as well as being an Associate Editor of Transactions on Services Computing and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems.