Jamie Davis
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Education
PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (2020)
Notable Awards
2022 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award
Fall 2021: Teaching–Recognized for high student evaluation scores (∼100 faculty in College of Eng.) 2021
ASE 2021 Distinguished PC Member Award 2021
VIP Outstanding Team Mentor Award, Purdue TensorFlow Team 2021
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2020 2020
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, CS@VT 2020
Second place, Grand Finals of the ACM Graduate Student Research Competition 2020
First place, Graduate Student Research Competition, ESEC/FSE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2018 2018
Microsoft Security Researcher Acknowledgments (Regex DoS) 2018
Pratt Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2017–2019
Davenport Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2019
Graduate Fellow, VT Academy for Global Engineering 2019–2020
IBM Significant Contributor Award (Node.js) 2018
IBM Poughkeepsie’s New hire of the month 2014
Frederica Clarkson Award 2012
Clarkson University’s Outstanding Senior (x2): Mathematics, Computer science 2012
Clarkson University Phalanx Commendable Leadership 2011
Fall 2021: Teaching–Recognized for high student evaluation scores (∼100 faculty in College of Eng.) 2021
ASE 2021 Distinguished PC Member Award 2021
VIP Outstanding Team Mentor Award, Purdue TensorFlow Team 2021
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2020 2020
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, CS@VT 2020
Second place, Grand Finals of the ACM Graduate Student Research Competition 2020
First place, Graduate Student Research Competition, ESEC/FSE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2018 2018
Microsoft Security Researcher Acknowledgments (Regex DoS) 2018
Pratt Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2017–2019
Davenport Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2019
Graduate Fellow, VT Academy for Global Engineering 2019–2020
IBM Significant Contributor Award (Node.js) 2018
IBM Poughkeepsie’s New hire of the month 2014
Frederica Clarkson Award 2012
Clarkson University’s Outstanding Senior (x2): Mathematics, Computer science 2012
Clarkson University Phalanx Commendable Leadership 2011
Biography
Professor Davis studies safe and secure software engineering for cyber- and cyber-physical systems. My research is grounded
in empirical measurements of the software engineering process, the engineered product, and its usage context.
in empirical measurements of the software engineering process, the engineered product, and its usage context.
CURRENT PROJECTS
- A First Look at Third-Party Cyber Threat Hunting
- A Human Factors perspective on better phishing defenses
- Eliminating Regex-based Denial of Service
- Formal methods and Fuzzing for security in Internet of Things, embedded systems, real-time operating systems, and general software
- Promoting Inter- and Intra-Organizational Learning from Software Failures: Towards a Failure-Aware Software Development Lifecycle
- Reusing Deep Learning Models: Challenges and Directions in Trustworthy Software Engineering
- Securing the Software Supply Chain: Theories, Measurements, Runtime Defenses, and Software Signing Infrastructure (PKI) for commercial and open-source software
- Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competence in Software Courses using Systems Thinking
- Using GenAI in software engineering education: Efficiency and Cybersecurity
TOPIC AREAS
- Awareness/ Training / Education
- Cloud security
- Cyber Ethics
- Cyberphysical systems and IoT
- Denial of service defense
- DevSecOps
- Digital Signatures/Watermarking
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Intrusion Detection, Prevention, Response
- Open Systems & software
- Operating Systems
- Secure coding/development
- Security management
- Security testing incl. pen testing, fuzzing
- Security tools
- Standards, frameworks, and models
- Trust
- Web Services