SEAL Members

Sam Malek
Director

Negar Ghorbani
PhD Candidate

Navid Salehnamadi
PhD Candidate

Abdulaziz Alshayban
PhD Candidate

Forough Mehralian
PhD Candidate

Syed Fatiul Huq
PhD 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

• 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

• Faraz Yazdani
  "Deep-GUI: Towards Platform-Independent UI Input Generation with Deep Reinforcement Learning." [PDF]
  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.