Kun Sun, Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), is set to receive funding for the project: “Collaborative Research: CIRC: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Software Vulnerability Detection and Remediation.”
Sun will plan an infrastructure featuring a continuous collection framework that captures scalable and multimodal data to facilitate high-impact software vulnerability research through a series of planning activities.
He and his collaborators will conduct surveys and interviews with the security, software engineering, and human-computer interaction communities to understand researchers’ practical needs and how an infrastructure and dataset can reduce barriers in their work.
Second, the project team will host workshops to gather feedback and share best practices on the initial infrastructure design.
Third, the project team will conduct summative surveys and form a working group to assess, refine, and improve the design.
By identifying community needs and priorities, the researchers will inform the infrastructure design that benefits and accelerates research on software vulnerability detection and remediation. The researchers will also foster long-term collaboration with participants to support the establishment of the new infrastructure.
Sun will receive $45,000 from the National Science Foundation for this project. Funding will begin in Oct. 2025 and will end in late Sept. 2026.
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