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11 Mar 26: Maryam Masoudian is joining the Project as Postdoctoral Fellow
We are delighted to announce that Maryam is joining the project as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Maryam brings strong static analysis and software testing expertise. We look forward to welcoming Maryam.
4 Mar 26: Timothee Riom is joining the Project as Postdoctoral Fellow
We are delighted to announce that Timothee is joining our project team as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Wellington. Timothee has a PhD from the University of Luxemburg, and has worked in static and dynamic program analysis, including vulnerability detection.
13 Feb 26: Talk at Deloitte
Jens will give a talk at Deloitte about software supply chain security in Wellington, organised by Joanne Lu.
Please contact us if you are interested for us to give a talk at your organisation on the state and challenges in Software Supply Chain security !
12 Feb 26: Project In-Person Meeting at Victoria University of Wellington
This is our first in-person meeting in Wellington in 2026 ! Several advisory board members are attending as well. We have a set of technical talks scheduled:
- Elliott: a binary equivalence dataset for rust
- Alix: using AI for binary equivalence
- Max: creating a scalable index for clone detection
- Jens: equivalence of generated sources
- Jens and Elliott: CVE-2025-55182 react2shell update
- Lisa: focus group study
- Xiang: Studying Deserialization of AI datasets from HuggingFace
11 Feb 26: Talk at RMIT
Jens will give a talk at RMIT in Melbourne about software supply chain security.
10 Feb 26: USD 78k / NZD 130k Gift by Oracle Inc
Jens has received a gift of USD 78k / NZD 130k from Oracle Inc to continue the work with Behnaz Hassanshahi on build security, including the ongoing development of daleq. This work is complementary to scc-fort, and will initially focus on python builds.
9 Feb 26: SCC-FORT @ OzSe’26 (9-10 Feb 26)
Valerio and Jens are invited speakers at the Australian Summer School in Software Engineering OzSE’26 in Melbourne, focussing on AI in Software Engineering. Jens will talk about software supply chain issues, Valerio about metamorphic testing of LLMs.
26 Jan 26: Shawn Rasheed is joining the Project as Senior Engineer
We are delighted to announce that Shawn is joining the project. Shawn holds a PhD from Massey University, supervised by Jens and Amjed Tahir on deserialization vulnerabilities. This led to the discovery of several new vulnerabilities including CVE-2019-17063 (PDFxStream), CVE-2019-20446 (librvg), CVE-2018-11797 (PDFBox) and CVE-2018-19478 (GhostScript). Welcome on board Shawn !
26 Jan 26: Tony McLoughlin is joining the Project as Project Manager
We are delighted to announce that Tony is joining the project in March as pur project manager. Tony is already working for the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington and has worked with many of us already.
12 - 16 Jan 26: Kelly Blincoe attending Lorentz Center Rethinking Software Ecosystems workshop
Kelly Blincoe is attending a workshop at the Lorentz Center in The Netherlands on the topic of Rethinking Software Ecosystems. She has been invited to give a keynote, titled Beyond the Dependency Graph: Human Factors, Power, and Equity in Software Ecosystems.
11 Dec 25: Project In-Person Meeting at University of Auckland
The team will meet in Auckland to discuss ongoing work and plan ahead.
16 Nov 25: SCC-FORT @ ASE’25 (16-20 Nov 25)
Valerio and Jens will give talks at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’25) in Seoul, Korea. ASE’25 is one of the 3 top-rated conferences in Software Engineering. Jens will talk about daleq, a tool to assess rebuilds, Valerio will talk about Oracles to test LLMs.
22 Oct 25: Lisa Patterson is joining the Project as PostDoc
We are excited to announce that our first postdoc, Dr. Lisa Patterson, is joining our team on 1 Nov. Lisa has extensive experience working in the private sector and working with government. Lisa holds a Phd in Cybersecurity from Victoria University of Wellington. Welcome on board Lisa !
13-14 Oct 25: Project Kick-off Meeting in Wellington
The team is meeting for our project kick-off meeting in Wellington.
After two days of planning we went to a local soviet-themed escape room for team building :-) .
25 Sep 25: Project Starting
The project will start on 1 October 2025 !