MARCY — SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Tarannum Shaila Zaman, an assistant professor of computer science, has recently received a $175,000 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII) grant to support her project, called, “An Automated and User-centered Framework for Reproducing System-level Concurrency Bugs by Analyzing Bug Reports.” The research […]
MARCY — SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Tarannum Shaila Zaman, an assistant professor of computer science, has recently received a $175,000 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII) grant to support her project, called, “An Automated and User-centered Framework for Reproducing System-level Concurrency Bugs by Analyzing Bug Reports.”
The research will create a novel framework named RepSON that addresses challenges caused by system-level concurrency bugs that frequently appear in modern software systems, lessening the burden faced by developers who must currently troubleshoot them manually, the university said. “I applaud Dr. Zaman’s efforts on this project, which will develop a game changing resource for those in the software industry,” SUNY Poly Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Provost for Research Michael Carpenter said in a news release. “Furthermore, this project will increase workplace efficiency, cutting down the amount of time developers spend debugging software, so they can focus on other important tasks.” According to Zaman, reproducing software bugs is necessary to ensure that they exist so their behavior can be observed, and they can be fixed. Reproducing system-level concurrency bugs is challenging. “I’m grateful for this investment by the National Science Foundation that will allow this incredibly important research to come to fruition,” Zaman said. “In addition to the creation of a novel framework (RepSON), this project will also develop a technique for extracting information and generating executable inputs from bug reports that can also be applied to other types of software bugs.” Zaman joined SUNY Poly’s College of Engineering faculty in August 2022 after graduating with her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kentucky. Prior to this, she obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She worked at Samsung Research and Development from 2012-2013. Her research focuses on devising novel techniques that make computer systems more efficient, reliable, autonomous, and user friendly. SUNY Poly offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through its four colleges — arts and sciences, engineering, business, and health sciences.