Ethar Elsaka
I'm Ethar Elsaka, a first year PhD student at the Computer Science
Department at the University of Maryland. I obtained my BSc and MS
degrees in Computer Science from the Faculty of Engineering at
Alexandria University, Egypt. My MS thesis was about range query
processing over Peer-to-Peer networks. I came to the US in 2007. I
worked for the Institute for Disabilities Research and Training
company as a senior software developer. I was working in developing
machine learning software that interfaces with gloves equipped with
accelerometers. Now, at the University of Maryland I'm working with
Prof. Atif Memon. I'm applying network measures in software testing,
especially GUI applications.
Emily Kowalczyk
Emily Kowalczyk is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2014, she graduated from UMD with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. As an undergraduate, she worked with EDSL as part of a DARPA funded research project to develop analysis techniques for vetting Android apps to confirm the absence of malice. In addition, she served as a teaching assistant for a graduate level mobile development course taught at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at UMD, which focused on the development of mobile health applications. Currently, she’s a research assistant with the EDSL team where she continues to work on techniques to confirm the absence of malice in Android apps as well as develop a holistic framework to measure program behavior.
Leslie Milton
Leslie Milton is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science,
University of Maryland. She received her BS and MS degree in Computer
Science from Jackson State University. She is presently employed at
the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). She
was awarded the Modern Day Technology Leadership Award at the 2009
Black Engineer of
the Year Awards STEM Global Competitiveness Conference. In 2008 , she
was recognized as an Emerging Leader for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. Her research focuses on bridging the gap between Graphical
User Interface and Database testing by developing techniques to test
both areas
together versus testing them in isolation.
Zebao Gao
Zebao Gao is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. Zebao received his BS and MS degrees from Nanjing University, China. He used to work as a software-development intern at eBay CDC and a research intern at Baidu Inc. His previous research experiences include program fault localization, test script repairing and testing coverage criteria. Since 2013, Zebao becomes a research assistant at the EDSL lab where he works on the GUITAR and Comet projects. His current research interests include GUI testing, reverse engineering and program analysis. He is applying empirical study and building automatic testing techniques and frameworks to bridge the gaps between research and testing practices in industry.
Bryan Robbins
Bryan Robbins is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been at Maryland
since August 2009 and working in EDSL since January
2010. Bryan's background includes undergraduate and Master's work in
software engineering at Mississippi State University as well as work
as a research programmer on multiple DoD projects from various
application domains. His overall approach to research can be
described as the application of empirical techniques, especially
those from other, well-studied disciplines, to software engineering
problems. As part of the EDSL, Bryan is empirically investigating
the application of formal models, such as the N-gram, to the
construction of software test suites, as well as empirical approaches
for the reliable evaluation of software testing techniques.
Dzung (Bryan) Ta
Dzung (Bryan) Ta is a first year PhD student in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He graduated from Hanoi
University of Technology with a BSE degree in Computer Science. He was
awarded as Vietnamese Information Technology Talent of 2009 and was the
national representative at The Imagine Cup World Finals in France (2008)
and in Egypt (2009). Currently, his research interests include software
testing and software security. His work presently focuses on developing
and improving testing techniques for webservice and SOA-based
applications.
Ishan Banerjee is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He earned a
masters degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2001.
He is presently employed at VMware Inc. His works on core components
of the VMkernel operating system. At the University of Maryland, he
works with the EDSL team. His is presently working on developing
methods for improving testing techniques for graphical user interface
based software.