Advising
PhD Students

Kei Long
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations
2024–present

Eshgin Hasanov
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations
2024–present
MS Students

Martin de Salterain
Software Supply Chain Security
2024-present (Spring 2024 as an undergraduate)
Undergraduate Research Assistants

Shanna Byrd
Configuration-Aware Fuzzing
Spring 2025–Now

Ryan Mangeno
Configuration-Aware Fuzzing
Spring 2025–Now

Kenneth Valladares
Human Factors in Software Engineering
Spring 2025–Now

Adam Betinksy
Human Factors in Software Engineering
Fall 2024–Now

Derian Comas
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations
Summer 2024–Now

Zachary Burkett
Macro Semantics and Translation
Spring 2024–Now

Joseph Zalusky
Macro Semantics and Translation
Spring 2024–Now
Previous Advisees
PhD Graduates

Jeho Oh (UT Austin)
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations
Co-Advised with Don Batory
2020–2022
(Graduated PhD, Joined Apple as a software engineer)

Necip Yildiran
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations
2020–2022
(Graduated PhD, Joined Google as a software engineer)
MS Graduates

Zoran Kolega
Corporate Entity Tracking Automation
2021–2024 (2023-2024 as software engineer)
(Graduated MS)

Kaarthik Alagappan
Variability-Aware Analysis
2019–2022 (2019-2021 as undergraduate)
(Graduated MS, Joined Walmart as a software engineer)
Previous Graduate Students

Stephen Maldonado
Tracking Corporate Relationships
2022–2023 (Summer 2022 as an undergraduate)

Austin Lee Davis
Tracking Corporate Relationships
Fall 2022

Julian Braha
Inferring and Securing Software Configurations, Corporate Entity Tracking Automation
Fall 2021 (2019-2021 as undergraduate)

Ronaldo Cunha
Analysis of Configurable Software, Persistent Memory
Fall 2021

Ryan Dozier
Concurrent Data Structures, Mitigating Side-Channel Attacks
Co-Advised with Damian Dechev
2020–2021

Sayma Sultana
Variability-Aware Analysis
Fall 2019
Previous Software Engineers

John Stoner
Corporate Entity Tracking Automation
2021–2024
Previous Undergraduate Students

Rachel Leiner
Software Supply Chain Security
Summer 2024

Fabian Ruiz Delgado
Analysis of Configurable Software
Spring 2024

Noah Isaacson
Analysis of Configurable Software
Spring 2024

Josh Santana
Configuration Vulnerabilities in Systems Software
2019–2021
(Joined Microsoft as an engineer)

Reeder Ward
Configuration Vulnerabilities in Systems Software
Spring 2020