Track: Security and Privacy (SP)

ABOUT

This Thematic Track is a well-established track within QUATIC, where researchers, developers, testers, and users from industry get together to present and discuss the most recent innovations, experiences and open challenges related to safety and security & privacy aspects of complex software systems.

Indeed, these aspects are increasingly important as more and more software is embedded into our homes, cars, trains and also, many relevant vital systems for critical infrastructures are moving towards the cloud. Developers have to consider safety, security & privacy requirements in the whole system and applications lifecycle, from design to operation and new methodologies and techniques are needed.

The authors are invited to submit research results as well as practical experiment or project reports. Industrial papers about applications or case studies are also welcomed in different domains (e.g., telemedicine, critical infrastructures, mobile networks, embedded applications, etc.). 

TOPICS

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

TRACK COMMITTEE

Chairs:  Dr. Xiaofei Xie (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Dr. Zhou Yang (Singapore Management University)

Program Committee: 

Dr. Xiaofei Xie is an Assistant Professor and  Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Singapore Management University. He obtained his Ph.D from Tianjin University and won the CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 in China. Previously, he was a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at NTU. His research mainly focuses on the quality assurance of both traditional software and AI-enabled software. He has published top-tier conference/journal papers in the areas of software engineering, security and AI. In particular, he has received four ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (FSE'16, ASE '19, ISSTA '22 and ASE ’23). 


Dr. Zhou Yang is a Research Scientist at Singapore Management University, where he obtained his PhD degree. His research focuses on testing and hardening various AI systems, covering properties like robustness, security, privacy, etc. His publications appear in top-tier venues, including ICSE, S&P, ASE, and ISSTA, and journals such as TSE, TOSEM, and EMSE. He won the SMU Research Staff Excellence Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, the ACSAC Honorable Mention Award, and 1st place in the ACM SRC Award.