The Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) conducts research on cybersecurity, software security, system security, and software engineering problems to enable technology gains.
Advances in software engineering are of critical importance not only to the technical capabilities and performance of the software product, but also for the development process of systems such as missile guidance, fire control, radar, satellites, navigation, GPS, sensors, communications, computer-aided medical diagnostics, and robotics. A part of these advances is the element of security, which has been a challenge, with billions of dollars lost every year to security attacks. Making secure and reliable software and systems with limited resources is difficult. Though software has been a problem-solving tool for six decades, there still is no "best" approach for the timely and cost-effective construction of software that is reliably secure.
Researchers in security and software engineering face many important issues as they engineer security-critical systems. To survive and prosper, U.S. companies must improve security, enhance the software engineering discipline, improve techniques for building software to drive their businesses, reduce infrastructure and vulnerabilities - including security and privacy breaches - and hire trained security analysts and software engineers. S2ERC has been designed to address these ongoing and increasingly complex needs.
Michelle Brown
Center Coordinator
+1 765 285 2795
mbbrown@bsu.edu
Eric Burger
Center Staff
+1 202 625 0100
eric.burger@georgetown.edu
Eric Wong
Center Co-director
+1 972 883 6619
ewong@utdallas.edu
Shaoen Wu
Center Director
+1 765 285 8658
swu@bsu.edu
Tapio Frantti
Center Co-director
+358 40 5470819
tapio.frantti@fre.fi
T. Charles Clancy
Center Staff
+1 540 231 5281
tcc@vt.edu
Ophir Frieder
Center Co-director
+1 312 543 6508
ophir@ir.cs.georgetown.edu
Christine Callsen
Center Staff Virginia Tech)
+1 571 858 3342
ccallsen@vt.edu
Clare Sullivan
Managing Director Georgetown)
+1 443 534 8980
cls268@georgetown.edu
Ehren Hill
Center Staff Virginia Tech)
+1 202 679 5955
ehren@vt.edu
The two primary research directions of S2ERC are security and software engineering. Recent research projects have focused on these issues:
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