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Wednesday, November 13
 

8:00am EST

Registration/Breakfast
Wednesday November 13, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am EST
Wednesday November 13, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am EST

9:00am EST

Welcome & Introduction
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am EST
Dr. Tom Longstaff will provide an introduction to kick of the Software Engineering Institute Research Review 2024.

Message from the CTO​​​
Moderator
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Dr. Tom Longstaff

Chief Technology Officer, Software Engineering Institute
Tom Longstaff is Chief Technology Officer of the SEI. As CTO, Longstaff is responsible for formulating a technical strategy and leading the funded research program of the institute based on current and predicted future trends in technology, government, and industry.Before joining... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am EST

9:30am EST

Keynote Provided by Dr. Alexis Bonnell
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EST
Ms. Alexis Bonnell, Chief Information Officer & Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, will provide a keynote address.
Speakers
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Ms. Alexis Bonnell

Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Alexis Bonnell is the Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. She is responsible to develop and execute the AFRL... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am EST

10:30am EST

Break/Demo & Poster Sessions
Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EST
During this break, SEI researchers will be available to discuss their projects in greater detail. We will have poster presentations led by our researchers, as well as demonstrations for our attendees to experience.

Research Review 2024 Poster Session​​​
Speakers
avatar for Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols

Initiative Lead, Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis, Software Engineering Institute
William "Bill" Nichols joined the SEI in 2006 as a senior member of the technical staff and served as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) coach. Before joining the SEI, Nichols led a software-development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Will Klieber

Dr. Will Klieber

Software Security Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
Will Klieber is a software security researcher focusing on the areas of software assurance and automated code repair. He has led a small team to develop and implement static analysis and program transformation to automatically repair certain classes of memory-safety vulnerabilities... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Justin Novak

Dr. Justin Novak

Senior Security Operations Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Justin Novak is a Senior Security Operations Researcher at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, leading a team as part of the Security Operations Division supporting the US Department of State, Department of Defense, and United States Treasury. At the SEI, he is... Read More →
avatar for Ipek Ozkaya

Ipek Ozkaya

Technical Director, Engineering Intelligent Software Systems, Software Engineering Institute
Ipek Ozkaya is a principal researcher and the technical director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the SEI. Ozkaya’s primary interests include developing techniques for improving software development efficiency and system evolution with an emphasis on software... Read More →
avatar for Linda Parker Gates

Linda Parker Gates

Initiative Lead, Software Acquisition Pathways, Software Engineering Institute
Linda Parker Gates is the principal investigator on the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI's) Artificial Intelligence Robustness (AIR) research and transition project and leads the Software Acquisition Pathways Initiative in the SEI's Software Solutions Division. In both roles... Read More →
avatar for Jerome Hugues

Jerome Hugues

Principal Architecture Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Jerome Hugues is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI) on the Assuring Cyber-Physical Systems team. His research interests focus on the design of software-based real-time and embedded systems and model-based engineering approaches... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EST

11:00am EST

AI Robustness (AIR)
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EST
Modern data analytic methods and tools, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models, depend on correlations; however, such approaches fail to account for confounding in the data, which prevents accurate modeling of cause and effect and often leads to bias. Edge cases, drift in data/concept, and emerging phenomena undermine the significance of correlations relied upon by AI. New test and evaluation methods are therefore needed for ongoing evaluation. Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI) has developed a new AI Robustness (AIR) tool that allows users to gauge AI and ML classifier performance with data-based confidence.

Learn More about AIR​​​
Speakers
avatar for Linda Parker Gates

Linda Parker Gates

Initiative Lead, Software Acquisition Pathways, Software Engineering Institute
Linda Parker Gates is the principal investigator on the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI's) Artificial Intelligence Robustness (AIR) research and transition project and leads the Software Acquisition Pathways Initiative in the SEI's Software Solutions Division. In both roles... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Nicholas Testa

Dr. Nicholas Testa

Senior Data Scientist, Software Engineering Institute
Nick Testa is a Senior Data Scientist on the SEMA team within the Software Solutions Division (SSD). Since joining the SEI in August 2022, Nick has been involved in several research projects that involve applying tools like anomaly detection, causal discovery and inference, and experimental... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EST
  General Session
  • about Linda Parker Gates specializes in strategic planning, performance excellence, and change management. In addition to supporting numerous government agencies in developing and adopting improvement strategies, Gates leads the Software Acquisition Pathways initiative in the SEI Software Solutions Division. Gates is the author of the SEI technical report, Strategic Planning with Critical Success Factors and Future Scenarios: An Integrated Strategic Planning Framework and a multi-part SEI blog series on strategic planning and agility. Gates joined the SEI in 1989. Gates spent two years at the Software Productivity Consortium in Herndon, Virginia in 1994–95 before rejoining the SEI in 1996. Gates is a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Gates has served on the Baldrige Board of Examiners since 2011. Gates also serves as co-chair for the Government Community of Practice for the Association for Strategic Planning.

11:30am EST

Co-Design for Edge Artificial Intelligence: Application-Specific System on Chip
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EST
Hardware inefficiencies pose major limitations to U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) applications; current processors simply cannot keep up with the large and complex machine learning (ML) workloads needed to perform their missions. Utilizing co-design (concurrent design of electronic system hardware and software components), this project aims to provide tools to overcome these limitations and yield practical results that increase battery life, reduce weight warfighters must carry, increase maneuverability of forces, and reduce time from sensor to shooter.

Learn More​​​
Speakers
avatar for John Wohlbier

John Wohlbier

Principal Research Scientist and Lab Lead, Software Engineering Institute
John Wohlbier is the AI Division Advanced Computing Lab Lead and a Principal Research Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. The Advanced Computing Lab applies world class expertise to solve advanced computing problems in artificial intelligence... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EST

12:00pm EST

Lunch/Demo & Poster Sessions
Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
During lunch, SEI researchers will be available to discuss their projects in greater detail. We will have poster presentations led by our researchers, as well as demonstrations for our attendees to experience.
Speakers
avatar for Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols

Initiative Lead, Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis, Software Engineering Institute
William "Bill" Nichols joined the SEI in 2006 as a senior member of the technical staff and served as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) coach. Before joining the SEI, Nichols led a software-development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Will Klieber

Dr. Will Klieber

Software Security Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
Will Klieber is a software security researcher focusing on the areas of software assurance and automated code repair. He has led a small team to develop and implement static analysis and program transformation to automatically repair certain classes of memory-safety vulnerabilities... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Justin Novak

Dr. Justin Novak

Senior Security Operations Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Justin Novak is a Senior Security Operations Researcher at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, leading a team as part of the Security Operations Division supporting the US Department of State, Department of Defense, and United States Treasury. At the SEI, he is... Read More →
avatar for Linda Parker Gates

Linda Parker Gates

Initiative Lead, Software Acquisition Pathways, Software Engineering Institute
Linda Parker Gates is the principal investigator on the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI's) Artificial Intelligence Robustness (AIR) research and transition project and leads the Software Acquisition Pathways Initiative in the SEI's Software Solutions Division. In both roles... Read More →
avatar for Jerome Hugues

Jerome Hugues

Principal Architecture Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Jerome Hugues is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI) on the Assuring Cyber-Physical Systems team. His research interests focus on the design of software-based real-time and embedded systems and model-based engineering approaches... Read More →
avatar for Ipek Ozkaya

Ipek Ozkaya

Technical Director, Engineering Intelligent Software Systems, Software Engineering Institute
Ipek Ozkaya is a principal researcher and the technical director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the SEI. Ozkaya’s primary interests include developing techniques for improving software development efficiency and system evolution with an emphasis on software... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST

1:30pm EST

Techniques for Detection of Information Flows Indicative of Inserted Malicious Code
Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm EST
Detecting malicious code is a challenge, particularly when it’s implanted in otherwise legitimate software. If undetected, malware injected into legitimate software can result in costly compromises of computer systems, such as in the SolarWinds incident of 2020. This project aims to produce a tool to detect such malicious code to prevent system compromises. Our goal is to enable analysts throughout the DoD to detect malicious code before it can compromise DoD systems.

Learn More​​​
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Will Klieber

Dr. Will Klieber

Software Security Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
Will Klieber is a software security researcher focusing on the areas of software assurance and automated code repair. He has led a small team to develop and implement static analysis and program transformation to automatically repair certain classes of memory-safety vulnerabilities... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm EST

2:00pm EST

Explainable Verification for Rapid Certification
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EST
Deploying critical software with certification and frequent updates is a major challenge. Exhaustive testing of safety-critical systems is not possible due to the exponential growth of test cases; extensive but non-exhaustive testing is potentially unsafe; and while formal methods (FM) can provide full coverage, many FM tools have been found to be defective, producing the wrong output and leaving software practitioners understandably hesitant to trust FM tools.

Learn More​​​
Speakers
avatar for Bjorn Andersson

Bjorn Andersson

Principal Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Bjorn Andersson transferred the well-known result "The utilization bound of Rate-Monotonic is 69 percent" to multiprocessors, invented the task-splitting approach for scheduling hard real-time tasks on multiprocessors and transferred the idea of bin-packing heuristics to heterogeneous... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EST

2:30pm EST

Break
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Break
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:45pm EST

2:45pm EST

Vessel: Modeling Container Reproducibility Failures
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:45pm - 3:15pm EST
This project focuses on creating a foundational model for all container reproducibility efforts (open-source, commercial, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), etc.). The lack of build reproducibility is a fundamental problem that affects most software built today. While some tools exist to aid in promoting build reproducibility, the research and developer communities lack a holistic model of container build reproducibility and its failure scenarios. This project aims to develop this model as well as tools for verifying reproducibility in container builds.

Learn More about Vessel​​​
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Pitstick

Kevin Pitstick

Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
Kevin Pitstick is a senior engineer at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is currently a member of the Tactical and AI-enabled Systems (TAS) initiative, where he is the principal investigator for the “Vessel: Reproducible Container Builds... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:45pm - 3:15pm EST

3:15pm EST

Large-Scale Assurance
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm EST
Assuring evolving large-scale systems (i.e., systems with multiple subsystems) can be a bottleneck in deploying capabilities with the speed and confidence needed for current Department of Defense (DoD) missions. There is no easy way to automatically integrate the complex web of interacting assurance techniques (i.e., for control stability, timing, security, logical correctness, and more) from multiple interacting subsystems in a system. In addition, without awareness of assurance interdependencies and effective reuse of prior assurance, the cost and time required for re-assurance can skyrocket.

Learn More about Large-Scale Assurance​​​
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Gabriel Moreno

Dr. Gabriel Moreno

Principal Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Gabriel Moreno is a principal researcher and the lead of the Formal Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems (FV-CPS) Initiative.During his career at the SEI, Moreno has worked on several areas including model-based analysis, software architecture, component technology, performance... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm EST

3:45pm EST

Reception/Demo & Poster Sessions
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:45pm - 5:30pm EST
During the reception, SEI researchers will be available to discuss their projects in greater detail. We will have poster presentations led by our researchers, as well as demonstrations for our attendees to experience.
Speakers
avatar for Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols

Initiative Lead, Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis, Software Engineering Institute
William "Bill" Nichols joined the SEI in 2006 as a senior member of the technical staff and served as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) coach. Before joining the SEI, Nichols led a software-development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Will Klieber

Dr. Will Klieber

Software Security Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
Will Klieber is a software security researcher focusing on the areas of software assurance and automated code repair. He has led a small team to develop and implement static analysis and program transformation to automatically repair certain classes of memory-safety vulnerabilities... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Justin Novak

Dr. Justin Novak

Senior Security Operations Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Justin Novak is a Senior Security Operations Researcher at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, leading a team as part of the Security Operations Division supporting the US Department of State, Department of Defense, and United States Treasury. At the SEI, he is... Read More →
avatar for Linda Parker Gates

Linda Parker Gates

Initiative Lead, Software Acquisition Pathways, Software Engineering Institute
Linda Parker Gates is the principal investigator on the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI's) Artificial Intelligence Robustness (AIR) research and transition project and leads the Software Acquisition Pathways Initiative in the SEI's Software Solutions Division. In both roles... Read More →
avatar for Jerome Hugues

Jerome Hugues

Principal Architecture Researcher, Software Engineering Institute
Jerome Hugues is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI) on the Assuring Cyber-Physical Systems team. His research interests focus on the design of software-based real-time and embedded systems and model-based engineering approaches... Read More →
avatar for Ipek Ozkaya

Ipek Ozkaya

Technical Director, Engineering Intelligent Software Systems, Software Engineering Institute
Ipek Ozkaya is a principal researcher and the technical director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the SEI. Ozkaya’s primary interests include developing techniques for improving software development efficiency and system evolution with an emphasis on software... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:45pm - 5:30pm EST
 
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